Author: Mark

I’m excited to be attending and speaking at AppDevCon 2022 in Amsterdam.

On Thursday 23 June I give a half-day tutorial on engineering Design Systems and on Friday 24 June I present a conference talk on typography.

Engineering Design Systems

Format: half-day tutorial

Many companies are coming to realize the many benefits that design systems bring. A good design system (and its accompanying set of engineered components) can improve design quality and consistency and provide significant reduction in production times for both design and development teams. But how do you engineer the components depicted in the design system? In this talk we will learn how to consume design files and then engineer our own mini design system beginning with the foundations of color, spacing, and typography. We will use our foundations to create a few simple elements, and then we will assemble those into a card component, form fields, and finally a form. Along the way we will consider accessibility through the lens of dark mode, increased color contrast, landscape support, Dynamic Type, and bold text support.

Engineering Beautiful and Accessible Text

Format: conference talk

An integral part of design systems and style guides is typography. Typography declares how text will appear in your product by specifying the font family, size, weight, line height, etc. While much of our focus on design goes towards colors, icons, and images, text is the primary way users interact with the majority of apps. Learn how to implement typography in your apps in a way that is accurate to the source designs, fully accessible, and that makes assembling pixel perfect implementations of the source designs a breeze.

Tickets are still available.

Hit me up if you’re in Amsterdam as I will be there for 6 days / 5 nights.