Building Bulletproof Design Systems with Eva Ferreira

Chats with Kent C. Dodds

Eva Ferreira, a frontend engineer, educator, and design systems expert, shares insights into what makes or breaks a design system. As a tech lead at Mable and a long-time web development instructor, Eva brings years of experience building UI components, optimizing accessibility, and implementing robust frontend architectures.

Her talk at Epic WebConf, "Bulletproof Design Systems," dives into the biggest challenges teams face when adopting a design system. She covers topics like onboarding new users, proving the system’s value with measurable success metrics, and avoiding the trap of a single maintainer. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to make their design systems more sustainable and widely adopted.

Kent and Eva also discuss the importance of sharing failures as well as successes in tech, the struggle of maintaining focus while learning online, and why in-person conferences provide an unmatched experience for both education and networking.

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Meet Eva at Epic Web Conf.

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Guest: Eva Ferreira

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• LinkedIn: Maria Evangelina Ferreira

Host: Kent C. Dodds

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• YouTube: Kent C. Dodds
• Epic Web: epicweb.dev