Journal
DesignOps London 2024
Do you ever walk into a room and immediately feel like these are your people? That was my experience on Friday while presenting at DesignOps London on the topic of change. Henry Stewart Events hosted a wonderful day of operations practitioners at etc.venues. The day...
Digitale Leute 2022
In November, I had the opportunity to share my PUMA journey in Design Systems and DesignOps with the wonderful folks at Digitale Leute Summit in Cologne, DE. Digitale Leute Summit is an annual conference at the intersection of Tech, User Experience, and Product. The...
Running + Mental Health
Maintaining positive well-being and mental health is always challenging in the DesignOps community and the Design field. Taking care of teams and creating space for other cross-functional partners can quickly take its toll, and mental debt can build up quickly. On top...
Figma Config 2022
The PUMA's Unified Design System team had the opportunity to present at Figma's global design conference Config. The conference took place over a 24-hour period between May 10 and May 11. There was a great lineup of global speakers and over 100,000 international...
Inspiring Design System Documentation Sites
At PUMA, we're about five weeks into a proof of concept pilot to create a design system for PUMA's digital products and services. We're calling it the Unified Design System, and it's a functional toolkit for developers, designers, content designers, marketers, and...
UX Writers Collective Fundamentals Course
I came across the UX Writers Collective through a Slack group about content and design and was very intrigued. Content design or UX writing as a role has a similar feel to it as service design did a few years ago. What was once questioned from a position perspective...
P5.js Radial Art Sketch
This sketch was a lot of fun. I used looping to create a piece of radial art that includes creating a function to draw a line with parameters and then create a loop that rotates the canvas and executes the line. I also added a simple mouseClick function that stops the...
P5.js Parameterize Tile Art Sketch
For this sketch, I created a few parameters that allowed for easier replication of the tile art and the ability to modify each tile. Changing attributes like background color, line stroke, quarter marks, and the interior square was an easy way to create an entirely...
P5.js Tile Art Sketch
For this sketch, I explored creating a tile while utilizing a simple function. I wanted the tile to be visually appealing while being mindful of modifications concerning size, color, and position. This was also the first time utilizing the angleMode function from the...
P5.js Snowman Shapes Sketch
A bit more work with shapes and exploring the placement of objects on a page. The original sketch utilized the prompt method to gather input from the user. This was removed from the sketch because it felt pretty invasive. Here's a peek at the raw Javascript code to...