Designing with React

Thanks to React’s component-oriented architecture, the React community has been naturally gravitating towards design systems as a way of standardising our respective design languages into reusable components. When done successfully, it suddenly becomes trivial to translate standard designs into code. In fact, we may even find that this translation step starts to feel somewhat redundant. In a world of components, how should our design processes change? How should our tooling change? How should we, as React developers, better enable this change? In this talk, we’ll look at the current state of design and development, and where we could go—if we’re willing to push for it.

About the speaker:

Mark Dalgleish is the co-creator of CSS Modules, lead organiser of MelbJS, and Front-end Engineering Lead at SEEK. Having got his start with HTML and UI design at a young age, Mark has since developed a love of software engineering and open-source tooling, but always as a means to creating elegant, usable experiences.