Speakers
Hayley Hughes
Hayley Hughes is a design director for Nike, where she leads teams to imagine the future of sports through design systems. She is passionate about building communities, helping teams collaborate, and making organizations more human. Throughout her career, Hayley has also created and evolved design systems at IBM, Shopify, and Airbnb.
In her spare time, Hayley is a casual gardener, distance runner, and regular at all the breakfast taco shops in Austin where she’s based.
About the talk
Trust between teams
When product teams aren’t working together, siloes between teams lead to fragmented user experiences. In contrast, a design system team is positioned to stitch together siloes and unify experiences across the organization. After occupying this unique role for nearly a decade within multiple organizations, I’m often asked, “What new approaches can be learned from design system teams, for whom cross-team collaboration is an everyday practice?”
This talk will cover organizational barriers to cross-team collaboration, and how to side-step limiting beliefs that hold teams back from working together. We’ll examine real examples of low-trust versus high-trust behaviors and leadership qualities that lead to healthy partnerships. Lastly, I’ll share strategies you can use to remove your teams’ tunnel vision and explore the spaces beyond their own work.
Trust between teams
When product teams aren’t working together, siloes between teams lead to fragmented user experiences. In contrast, a design system team is positioned to stitch together siloes and unify experiences across the organization. After occupying this unique role for nearly a decade within multiple organizations, I’m often asked, “What new approaches can be learned from design system teams, for whom cross-team collaboration is an everyday practice?”
This talk will cover organizational barriers to cross-team collaboration, and how to side-step limiting beliefs that hold teams back from working together. We’ll examine real examples of low-trust versus high-trust behaviors and leadership qualities that lead to healthy partnerships. Lastly, I’ll share strategies you can use to remove your teams’ tunnel vision and explore the spaces beyond their own work.