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Shaun Bent

Engineering manager, design system leader and accessibility advocate from the UK. Currently living in Stockholm, leading engineering on the Encore Design System and Accessibility at Spotify. Previously at the BBC.

Posts

2022

What has Encore been up to? How has Encore grown and evolved in the last few years? And what have we learned?

2020

In November 2019 we introduced Encore, Spotify’s new approach to design systems. What motivated us to create Encore, how it’s structured? and how it’s different from what we’ve tried before.

2017

CSS Sucks

2016

Talks

2023

Speaking at the Into Design Systems, Stockholm meetup, I talk about how Spotify is approaching building a cross-platform Design System.

2019

Speaking at Design Systems London, 2019, I talk about how to you build a design system which supports a fast-paced, autonomous squad culture and works on more than 45 different platforms.