Design System Casual Breakfast — January

​Welcome our next Design Systems Breakfast featuring Slava, a Frontend Tech Lead with 15+ years of experience in frontend development!

​Slava will be diving into: "Extending components in a safe manner. How to provide flexibility to a design system, while not sacrificing its strictness"

​Why this matters: “flexibility vs. consistency” is one of the hardest design system tensions. If extension points are unclear or unsafe, teams either fork components or ship one-off UI... both paths slowly erode the system. Getting this right makes adoption easier, upgrades safer, and collaboration smoother.

​The session will be development-focused, but not hardcore. We welcome other design system trades: designers, PMs, and any role. We’d love your input in the discussion!

​Join us for another relaxed morning meetup and great conversation.

​📅 Date: January 8th, 2026 (Thursday) 🕘 Time: 9:30 CET (Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm) 8:30 GMT (London, Dublin) 10:30 EET (Helsinki, Tallinn, Athens)

​Looking forward to seeing you there!