Diana Mounter
I’m a designer with an interest in systems thinking, code as a material, and inclusive design. I work remotely for GitHub as their Director of Design Infrastructure, and organize the Design Systems Coalition NYC meetup. Living in Brooklyn, NY, and currently staying inside.
Writing
Design Systems at GitHub
July, 2018
Hack Design: Design System Fundamentals
This lesson introduces you to the fundamentals of building design systems.
The Peacock’s Demo: a design fable
January, 2018
Design Systems Handbook: putting your design system into practice
An online and printed handbook on design systems.
How to Empower Designers to Code
April, 2016
Rebuilding the Foundation of Etsy’s Seller Tools
February, 2015
Embracing Change in Your Workplace
January, 2015
Highlights
The DSC is a community for people who build design systems to share and learn from each other. I organize the NYC chapter which I formed in December 2016.
I formed the GitHub design systems team in early 2016. I continue to grow the team and guide the evolution of Primer, our proudly open-sourced design system.
Talks
Some of my favorite talks:
Themeability is the path to dark mode
ReactConf AU, February 2020
Color fron Chaos
AIGA Design Conference, April 2019
You vs. the design system they told you not to worry about
RETHINK Design Systems, June 2018
Interaction of Color Systems
CSS Conf Australia, March 2018
Design Systems: when and how much?
Active Ingredients, April 2017
All the talks:
Themeability is the path to dark mode
ReactConf AU, February 2020
Component API design and the developer experience
Fronteers, October 2019
The Secret Lives of Color Systems
Smashing Conf Toronto, June 2019
Color fron Chaos
AIGA Design Conference, April 2019
Design System APIs and the developer experience
Design Systems London, November 2018
Design Systems and React
ZEIT React Meetup, August 2018
You vs. the design system they told you not to worry about
RETHINK Design Systems, June 2018
Interaction of Color Systems
Web Conf Asia, June 2018
A Colorful Journey Into Design Systems
Designers and Geeks, May 2018
Interaction of Color Systems
Web A Québec, April 2018
Interaction of Color Systems
CSS Conf Australia, March 2018
Interaction of Color Systems
Clarity, November 2017
Introducing Systems into Chaos
RETHINK Product Design Series, August 2017
Design Systems: when and how much?
Active Ingredients, April 2017
Color Systems
Design Driven, March 2017
Panel: Real Talk About Design Systems
AIGA, February 2017
Building Design Systems at GitHub
Design Systems Coalition NYC, December 2016
Competence, Compassion, and Confidence
Wildhacks, November 2016
Empowering Designers to Code - 2nd edition
Awwwards, November 2016
How to Build Style Guides Everyone Loves
Designers Who Code, June 2016
All The Things I Know About Design Systems
Clarity, March 2016
Empowering Designers to Code
FOWD, November 2015
Building Scalable Design
Design Driven, November 2014
Design for People
Metis, November 2014
Responding to Change
Agile Asbury, October 2014
Even more talks on speakerdeck and slideshare.
Side projects
Interviews
React Podcast: Make Brilliant Messes
In this episode with Emily Plummer, we talk with Chantastic about Rails, Lerna, monorepos, Figma, component APIs, and the importance of supporting designers and engineers with your design system.
Design Details: Cats & Design Systems
In this episode with Brent Jackson, we dig into the tools and workflows we’ve developed when working on systems, what we’re excited about in design systems, and talk about the technologies that are changing the way we build.
Design Better Podcast: from design silos to design system
From design silos to design systems. I talk with Eli Woolery and Aaron Walter from InVision about navigating the path from style guide contributor to full-time design systems manager.
Interview avec Chloe Freslon pour URelles.com
De travailler avec la couleur dans l’imprimé et sur le web, les défis techniques, et pourquoi il est difficile de devenir un expert en couleur.
Full Stack Radio, episode 75
In this interview I talk about using design systems to tame legacy CSS, and how GitHub is using utility classes to make it easier to build more consistent, maintainable user interfaces.
UXPin interview
In this interview I talk about lessons learned in building and maintaining GitHub’s design system, Primer.
Design Details: Itchy Feet
In this episode I talk about my journey to Etsy, the startup bus, why Git is a valuable tool for designers and the hardest part about onboarding designers.