IBM Cloud & Cognitive
Cultivating design quality at scale
Collaborating across all significant software pillars to create a more comprehensive set of UX patterns, components and guidelines to be implemented in Carbon. Helping to drive design/content consistency and implementation quality across all products within the Cloud & Cognitive software portfolio through Design & UX reviews. Teaching designers Brand Identity within software by assisting with the creation of IBM Cloud & Watson Brand Experience guides. All of this guidance is currently being used by 267 products/services within IBM.
Company: IBM
Role: Design System Adoption Guild Representative & Design & UX Reviewer
Timespan: November 2019 - Present
Team Location: Global
Design System Contributions
Lead
Grid system calculation guidance and specifications for influencers & tearsheets
Side panel component guidance, specifications, and oversight on implementation
Productive & Expressive Card component guidance and specifications
Color picker component guidance and specifications
Contributor / Mentor
Create flow patterns
Edit flow patterns
Tearsheet component
Compact components
In-page navigation
Data table patterns
Compare pattern
Expand/collapse pattern
Select pattern
Navigation content guidelines
Contact me to see full patterns or components creation process.
password: Charlie
Driving design quality
The Design & User Experience (D&UX) Program empowers teams and their leaders to align and systematically improve the quality of their offerings. The program consists of D&UX reviews & gates, accelerator workshops, and D&UX critiques. When regularly applied we achieve experience excellence which leads to organic growth and top box advocacy. My role within this program is a Visual & Accessibility and Content & Get Help reviewer.