Craft Across: Design System Maturity Models
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Craft Across: Design System Maturity Models

Join us for a LIVE co-creation session as we map out the Content Design System Maturity Model—a framework to help teams assess where they are today and identify what it takes to grow their content practice within a design system.

This Craft Across session is an open workshop-style event where we’ll collaboratively define what “maturity” looks like for content in design systems—from starter checklists to full-scale integrated practices.

Speakers
Megan Palmateer

Megan Palmateer

Senior Content Designer at Thomson Reuters

John Voss

John Voss

Head of Product Design at Descript

Amy Lam

Amy Lam

Engineering Manager & Design Systems Lead at Sagent

In this session, we'll co-create a Design System Maturity Model, focusing on the people, processes, tools, and impact of design systems from multiple perspectives. Whether you're just starting to think about design system standards, or managing a full design system infrastructure with guidelines, components, and testing workflows—this is your chance to shape a model that helps teams self-assess and grow.

We'll start from the ground up:

  • What does Level 1 of design system maturity look like?
  • What are the key checkpoints that unlock progress to Level 2 and beyond?
  • How do teams evolve from basic consistency to strategic impact?

  1. Defining Design System Maturity
    What dimensions matter? We'll co-map axes like tooling, workflows, governance, reuse, and contribution across content, design, and engineering perspectives.

  2. Building a Practical Model
    Together, we'll define 3–5 maturity levels that any team can use to self-assess and set growth targets.

  3. Cross-Functional System Intersections
    How design tokens, components, guidelines, and system patterns align across content, design, and engineering disciplines.

  4. People, Roles & Rituals
    What does a mature design system organization look like? And what does it take to get there from each perspective?

  5. Tools & Infrastructure
    From Figma components to docs-as-code, AI-assisted workflows, component libraries, and review processes—how tooling evolves with maturity across all disciplines.

  6. Real-World Stories
    We'll highlight patterns from teams actively building design system infrastructure across content, design, and engineering.

  • Design System Leads & Managers looking to assess and evolve their team's maturity across all disciplines
  • Engineering Managers responsible for design system infrastructure and cross-functional collaboration
  • DesignOps & Program Managers focused on maturity models, process improvement, and organizational growth
  • Product Leaders seeking to understand design system impact on product development and team efficiency
  • Cross-Functional Team Leads working to align content, design, and engineering practices within design systems
  • Live Co-Creation Workshop (Maturity Levels, Axis Mapping)
  • FigJam Mapping + Milestone Templates
  • Community Sharing & Q&A
  • Early Access to Maturity Model Draft v0.1

  • Tools Needed:
    Chrome + Infa.ai extension (optional), FigJam access, and curiosity.

  • Slack Access:
    Join the conversation before and after the session in the Infa community Slack: Join here

  • Recording:
    All registered attendees will receive the session recording via email within 1–2 days.

Event Recording
Oct 23, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (PST)

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