Session Highlights
Session highlights capture the most impactful moments from our community events - the frameworks, quotes, and insights that resonate with design system practitioners. Each highlight preserves the speaker's context and connects to related actionable insights.
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Events & Highlights
Craft Across: Documentation in Design Systems
Event Date: August 7, 2025
Speakers: Kristen Singh (Intuit), Dustin Younse (Indeed), Misty Reed (Robert Half)
This session explored documentation strategies and maturity models for design systems, featuring real-world consolidation case studies and AI-ready documentation frameworks.
Session Highlights
- Documentation Evolution Stages - The three stages of documentation maturity and why leadership often misunderstands documentation as infrastructure
- Markdown as Universal Language - Why teams keep returning to markdown despite initial resistance, and how it enables future-proof, AI-ready documentation
- Component Classification Framework - How Intuit's simple three-question framework revolutionized their component vs pattern decision-making process
- Performance Optimization Insights - How performance issues kill documentation adoption and the custom solutions teams build to solve them
Related Insights: Interactive Documentation Strategies • Markdown Documentation Strategy • AI-Ready Documentation
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