London Opening Keynote - Conference Kickoff

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Design systems grow powerful but costly: layout, theming and process create maintenance burdens. Concrete fixes include splitting components into subcomponents to avoid variant explosion, using Boolean properties for optional pieces, adopting a headless design system with tokens so one structural change updates all themes, and applying test-driven design plus branching and merging to catch regressions. Figma is working on tokens and shows these practices reduce manual updates and surprise breakages.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:38Freeform vs Structured Design
3. 3:38Component Properties
4. 8:39Process
5. 11:56Complexity
6. 14:17Framing Design Systems

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