Marmalade Design System is the way we work, communicate and create together at Eventbrite—a two-sided events marketplace and management platform serving up fine and curious experiences by creators and for their fans and event attendees. 

I was tasked as the founding member of our new DesignOps team to revitalize our Design Systems practice in order to enable the Product Design team and development organization to build the best experiences for our end users.

A couple years, close to 40 new components, and over 800 imports of our tooling into production-facing code later, our team has saved the organization over 1,300 days of engineering effort, roughly equivalent to more than $1 million in cost savings annually.

My role as Principal Product Designer evolved over the course of the project from being a hands-on designer deep in the details of documentation and playbooks to being a Team Lead, driving strategic direction, persuading stakeholders, and advocating for investment in the team and overall initiative always.