

Into Design Systems at G2O - Columbus, USA
Join us for an exciting Into Design Systems Meetup at the G2O office on Wednesday, September 17th @ 7pm! 🎉
Sponsored by Nationwide Insurance 💙
👩🏻💻👨🏾💻🧑🏼💻 Who is this for?
EVERYONE is welcome: designers, developers, POs, PMs, managers, researchers, accessibility specialists, freelancers, founders, professionals, students - anybody! 🤗
🗒️ Agenda
7:00pm Social & Food (20 mins)
Come on in, meet new people, grab some food and a drink, and get settled in. Talk with other great professionals in Columbus!
7:20pm Speaker - Noelle Lansford - Space Oddities: Navigating the Nebulous Language of Design Systems
Design systems are meant to create UI solutions that scale. What happens when that solution actually creates more confusion than efficiency? How can you get your DS consumers reliable answers when your design system teammates have different perspectives? How do you continue to sell the design system when the narrative of efficiency is unclear or broken? Noelle will dive into some tools, both philosophical and practical, that gets the to heart of these divides and how to start fixing them!
7:50pm Q&A Panel Discussion
Joey Banks - Founder & CEO of Baseline Design
Brian Greene - Director of UX Design & Research Operations at Nationwide Insurance
Burton Smith - Technical Lead, Design Systems at Microsoft
Noelle Lansford - Owner & Founder of Shep, who will also be our speaker for the evening
Hosted by Ben Callahan, Founder of Sparkbox
8:15pm Networking
Networking will give you the opportunity to meet more people from the Columbus design system community!
👋 Your friendly hosts
Noelle Lansford: Owner & Founder of Shep + Design Systems Lead at Alaska Airlines
Ben Callahan: Founder of Sparkbox + Creator of The Question and Redwoods + Principle Consultant of Learning Mode
We can't wait to see you there!