The Masterclass
Description
Who is this masterclass for?
What's covered in this masterclass?
Selling Design Systems – We all know design systems and pattern libraries are great, but how do you get your clients, bosses, and teammates on board? We’ll make the business cases for design systems, and discuss tactics and tools for selling design systems to clients and stakeholders.
A Pattern-Based Process – Making modular interfaces requires massive shifts in our design and development process. We’ll discuss why front-end development is an essential part of the design process and demonstrate how tools like lo-fi sketches, style tiles, frontend workshop tools like Storybook, and others facilitate collaboration—and result in successful design systems.
Atomic Design Principles – We’ll cover core principles of modular UI interface design and introduce the atomic design methodology that helps connect your design system design/dev work to your actual product design/dev work.
Creating a rock-solid component library – The heart and soul of a successful design system is a component library that lives in code and directly powers an organization's software products. We'll cover all that goes into creating a UI component library that's reusable, flexible, extensible, and easy to work with.
Anatomy of Effective Reference Website – A style guide reference website is the happy home for all a design system’s ingredients. A robust and well-presented reference site can help a design system truly take root at your organization.
Design System Maintenance – Like a fine wine, a design system should increase in value over time. We’ll discuss tactics and techniques like team structure, versioning, managing changes and additions to the system, communication strategies, and more to ensure design system provides lasting value to your organization.
THE VENUE
A spacious, beautiful complex in Berlin, with great public transport access

Silent Green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin
Former crematorium turned into Cultural Center, with 5 spacious and bright rooms, a large garden and a private restaurant (MARS) exclusively available for Leadership Ateliers attendees.


ABOUT BRAD FROST
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Brad Frost is a design system consultant, front-end developer, speaker, writer, and musician located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. As a principal and technical consultant at Big Medium, he helps teams establish and evolve design systems, establish more collaborative workflows, and create better software together.. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. He co-hosted the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, Style Guide Guide, This Is Responsive, Death to Bullshit, and more.
tickets
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Tickets on sale from March 1st, 9 AM CET
All tickets include food and drinks during the whole event.