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The Design Systems (DS) team is composed of researchers and designers, working to help every HfLA team create their own design system that is robust, scalable, and based on sound design system paradigms.

Our initiatives have included:

• Auditing HfLA teams' use of Figma
• Writing style guides on design system best practices
• Interviewing HfLA volunteers to understand needs and pain points
• Designing component library Figma templates
• GitHub heuristic evaluation for non-developer end users

Roster

Team members' Github accounts

ROLE	Current	Former
Product Manager	Yasaman Roostaeian	Hana Stevenson
Researchers	‡Eric J Cunningham ‡Dongchen Hou Kelene Lee	Anna Knutson Rosalie Chung ‡Nasim Biglari ‡Jeanette Renema Anthony Navarro-Liu Kashmiri Medhi
Designers	‡Wataru Inoue Tammy Trinh Sandra Berjan	‡Ryan Curtis Anastasia Nekrasova Alena Yanovich Bernard Adesina ‡Danielle Nedivi Anh Hoang
Engineering		Qiqi Zheng
Accessibility		Ciara Salmon

‡ denotes lead rank

Alumni Testimonials

• Rosalie will be working as a researcher for J.P. Morgan & Chase
• Anna now works as a researcher for Workday
• Ciara now works at Google for the Google Accessibility team
• Ryan has been accepted onto the Microsoft Lead Apprenticeship Programme
• Jeanette now works as a User Experience Researcher for Caterpillar.

Hack for LA was a great resource for me as a recent UX bootcamp graduate with limited real world experience in the field. Thanks to HfLA, I was able to contribute to shipped products as well as collaborate with fellow designers, developers, and researchers. I was also fortunate to receive mentorship from PM Hana Stevenson, whose career advice was keen and invaluable. I can say with confidence that my work on the Design Systems project helped me land my new job as a Product Designer at Lumanu, where I will be taking lead on their design system!

–Anh Hoang, former Design Systems Designer

For more HfLA testimonials, check out the wins page on HfLA's site.

How to join our team

You must complete HfLA onboarding, be available to attend our meetings, and speak with the current PM on Slack.

• All-hands meet Mondays 5:30-6:30pm PST
• Researchers meet Tuesdays 11-11:45am PST
• Designers meet Tuesdays 6-7pm PST

If you've done all of the above, you can submit an onboarding issue to begin your first tasks.

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