Webinar Recording

Design Systems and Creativity: Unlikely Allies

with Brad Frost and Sophie Shepherd

A conversation about creativity and design systems with special guests Brad Frost and Sophie Shepherd.

Guest Speakers

Brad Frost

Brad Frost is a web designer, speaker, writer, and consultant located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. In addition to co-hosting the Style Guides Podcast, he has also helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, Style Guide Guide, This Is Responsive, and WTF Mobile Web.

Sophie Shepherd

Sophie Shepherd is a design manager at GitHub. She works on both the web team and the design systems team, at the intersection of brand, marketing, and CSS. Prior to this, she was a Senior Designer at Ushahidi, an open-source, non-profit software company and Happy Cog, a client-services agency.

Host

Jeremy Osborn

Jeremy Osborn is academic director of Aquent Gymnasium. He has produced numerous online courses and written several popular books on web design and creative software programs. Previously, he ran a web design certificate program at Boston University.