Creative Collaboration - Building a Universal Design System

Explore how Condé Nast, the publisher of renowned titles like WIRED, The New Yorker, and Vogue, consolidated the codebases of over 20 websites to enhance development speed and product flexibility. Discover the process of multiple engineering teams building interconnected components from scratch while design teams simultaneously created a system allowing publications to share code while maintaining their unique identities. Learn about the early challenges faced during this transformation and how the evolution of workflows streamlined the design and development process. Gain insights into the creation of a universal design system that balances shared efficiency with individual brand aesthetics in this 26-minute conference talk from CascadiaJS 2018.