Nathan Curtis
Design systems guru
Nathan Curtis has been swimming in the deep end of the IA and UX pool for over twenty years, with a more recent focus on design systems since 2006. Nathan authored Modular Web Design and has presented and led daylong workshops for years on the topics of design systems, component and pattern libraries, sketching, and design communications. He’s also an entrepreneur at heart, having founded EightShapes, a UX design agency headquartered in Washington, DC.
Rosenverse talks by Nathan:
" Creating one adopted component can be harder than creating 100 that go unused. "
Design Systems for Us: How Many One-Source(s)-of-Truth Are Enough? (Videoconference)
January 17, 2019
" That’s like a solitary model. One talented person builds the library, and if he’s busy, you get nothing new. That doesn’t scale. "
Beyond the Toolkit: Spreading a System Across People & Products
June 9, 2016
" A pattern library is not a design system — you need the code as a single source of truth to prevent people dropping the ball. "
Discussion
June 9, 2016
