Design Systems Breakfast with Slava Shkodin

Welcome to our next Design Systems Breakfast featuring Slava Shkodin, a Frontend Tech Lead with 15+ years of experience in frontend development!

Slava will be diving into: "Extending components in a safe manner. How to provide flexibility to a design system, while not sacrificing its strictness"

Why this matters

"Flexibility vs. consistency" is one of the hardest design system tensions. If extension points are unclear or unsafe, teams either fork components or ship one-off UI... both paths slowly erode the system. Getting this right makes adoption easier, upgrades safer, and collaboration smoother.

The session will be development-focused, but not hardcore. We welcome other design system trades: designers, PMs, and any role. We'd love your input in the discussion!

Join us for another relaxed morning meetup and great conversation.

Event Details

📅 Date: January 8th, 2026 (Thursday)
🕘 Time:

• 10:00 EET (Helsinki, Tallinn, Athens)
• 9:00 CET (Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm)
• 8:00 GMT (London, Dublin)

Event Links

🔗 LinkedIn Event: http://linkedin.com/events/7407145974772662272/
🎟️ Luma Event: https://luma.com/pyj6pd1t

Looking forward to seeing you there!