This time: less presentation, more workshop! The September 2026 Casual Breakfast is about Design System Teams and Governance — who designs and builds a design system, who runs it day to day, and who works on adoption. Facilitated by Rafael Sepeda and Varya Stepanova, with plenty of room to share experience and ask questions.
Read →The August 2026 Casual Breakfast featured Stefan Hoth, an Engineering Leader, on designing, building, and shipping StarLog — a local-first app that turns rough memories into interview-ready STAR stories using Claude and a team of agents — and Oleg Klimakov, a Lead Frontend Developer, on the year he started shipping.
Read →A special edition of the Casual Breakfast: about how we actually use AI in design and engineering. Jam-style format with three short talks from Anja Petrović, Sergey Bekharsky, and Mikko Häkkinen, followed by open discussion. Close to the ground, no "orchestrating AI agents in the cloud" energy — just how we use these tools day to day, what works, and what does not.
Read →The May 2026 Design Systems Breakfast featured Slava Shkodin, a Frontend Tech Lead, who shared his approach to building Skeleton components that hit the sweet spot — not over-engineered with DOM measurements and Playwright scripts, but not so simplistic that you're manually tweaking sizes forever. Just the right amount of smart automation to do 80% of the work for you.
Read →The April 2026 Design Systems Breakfast featured Igor Gonak, a Frontend Engineer at bonprix, who shared how to turn Storybook and Chromatic into a rock-solid testing suite — covering visual regressions, interaction tests, and automated workflows to ship design system updates with confidence.
Read →The March 2026 Design Systems Breakfast featured Andy Cetnarskyj, who walked through Supernova and how teams use it to centralize design documentation and design tokens. The session offered a practical overview of the tool and the features teams rely on. The discussion was so engaging that the group stayed longer than the session was scheduled to run.
Read →The January 2026 Design Systems Breakfast featured Slava Shkodin, a Frontend Tech Lead with 15+ years of experience, who explored "Extending components in a safe manner: How to provide flexibility to a design system, while not sacrificing its strictness" - tackling one of the hardest tensions in design systems.
Read →The November 2025 Design Systems Breakfast featured Fernando Vía Canel, who presented "A Timeline of Design Systems" - bridging the gap between design and code from the early 2000's to the present. Fernando co-founded the design system at Klarna, helped scale the design system for Minecraft Bedrock, and is now creating a startup that tests design systems by taking screenshots of all component variations.
Read →The October 2025 Design Systems Breakfast Halloween Edition featured Sergey Bekharsky, who demonstrated how Storybook interactions contribute to testing workflows. The session provided insights on how this powerful Storybook feature can transform your testing approach, proving that sometimes less code really does mean more value.
Read →The September 2025 Design Systems Breakfast featured Slava Shkodin, a Frontend Tech Lead with over 15 years of experience, who presented "UnoCSS: Instant On-demand Atomic CSS Engine, that nobody speaks about (but they should)" - exploring this powerful yet under-discussed CSS tool and its potential to transform design system architecture.
Read →The January 2025 Design Systems Breakfast welcomed Margo Roi, a Ukrainian Web Engineer based in Helsinki, who shared FinUA’s approach to building a lightweight, pattern-based design system documented in Notion. The session highlighted how volunteer-driven projects can benefit from clear, simple systems.
Read →The October 2024 Design Systems Breakfast featured Rafael Sepeda Errera, who spoke on “How to build a strategy, not a roadmap.” His talk opened up discussion on moving beyond simple planning to building adaptable long-term strategies for design systems.
Read →From Survival to Growth: Enhancing Design Systems via Seamless Collaboration
Read →The August 2021 Design Systems Breakfast marked the return after the summer break. Without external speakers, hosts Varya Stepanova and Sherif led the session, sharing ideas and facilitating an interactive discussion supported by a collaborative Miro board.
Read →The April 2021 Design Systems Breakfast featured Angelos Arnis, Design System Lead at Post. His presentation went beyond design systems into design operations, opening up discussion on how teams can scale, align, and manage their work more effectively.
Read →The third Design Systems Breakfast in April 2021 featured Wouter van der Kamp, UX Lead & Product Owner Design System at Aegon. He shared a talk on “Design systems; the business side,” highlighting how to measure value and impact. The session sparked lively discussion on KPIs, design velocity, time to market, and contributions — with participants sharing their own experiences and insights.
Read →The second Design Systems Breakfast took place in February 2021, featuring two guest talks. Roman Lihhavtsuk (F-Secure) shared how Scrum practices helped manage their design system team, and Kari Heikkilä (Vaisala) presented "Dating with a design system", sparking discussion on practical ways teams build and adopt design systems.
Read →The very first Design Systems Breakfast kicked off in January 2021. Hosted by Varya Stepanova and Nikita Sherbakov, the session focused on design tokens and component-driven development.
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