You Need A Design System
Walk around any music tech festival or expo, scroll through plugin stores, and you'll notice that a lot of music tech things look the same. Whether you're trying to stand out in a crowded market or trying to make your own ecosystem of products looks cohesive, you need more than luck. You need a design system.
This talk breaks down the anatomy of a design system, from simple visual guidelines to full-stack deployed token systems. We’ll explore what it takes to build them at scale, how they save thousands of development hours, and how a disciplined system ensures your products look like they were designed with true intent.
Finally, we'll move past the theory with an on-stage demonstration. Watch a live bootstrap of a design system, giving you real, practical steps to start designing your next project with confidence and sanity.
Astrid Bin
Designer
Astrid Bin
Astrid Bin is an artist and designer who specialises in making complex things useful, beautiful and understandable. Alongside her history of working as an announcer for international Lego robot competitions and explaining rocket science to children, she's also worked as a music technology researcher across academia and industry. Most recently she was the founding designer of Bela, and is currently working in e-textiles research for musical interacton and freelancing on interesting projects. She lives in Berlin.