Craft Across: First 90 days in Design Systems

This session focuses on what it really means to join or lead a design system team—and how to make your first 30, 60, and 90 days count.

We’ll explore what success looks like across four core perspectives:
🎨 Design – How to audit, contribute, and align with vision
🔧 Engineering – Where to start with infra, repo, tooling, and code contributions
📦 Product – How to connect adoption, roadmap, and stakeholder alignment
🧭 Leadership – What to prioritize across visibility, strategy, and team culture

What We'll Explore

1. Milestones That Matter
   What does “good” look like at 30/60/90 days for each role—and what’s realistic?

2. Systems Onboarding Frameworks
   Practical templates and guidance to support onboarding journeys in growing systems teams.

3. Role-Specific Priorities
   How designers, engineers, PMs, and system leads can create traction and reduce friction.

4. Common Pitfalls & Recovery Tactics
   Lessons learned from real onboarding experiences—what slows people down, and how to reset.

5. Building Relationships & Influence
   How to establish trust with consuming teams, clarify ownership, and navigate org dynamics early on.

Who Should Join

• New Team Members joining design systems for the first time
• Leads & Managers onboarding others into systems teams
• Ops & Program Managers building onboarding workflows and capability playbooks
• Cross-Functional Peers (PMs, Eng, QA) collaborating with system teams

Format

• Live Panel Across Four Perspectives (Design, Eng, Product, Leadership)
• Role-Based Breakout Discussions
• Shared FigJam for Milestone Mapping
• Interactive Q&A + Community Templates Drop

Logistics

• 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.