Jenil Gogari
Senior Product Designer at Datadog
Jenil Gogari is a Senior Product Designer at Datadog where he leads design tooling and works on the design system DRUIDS by Datadog. Previously, Jenil worked as a UX designer at BookMyShow, India's largest entertainment ticketing platform. In the past, he made free website themes, a CSS framework, an icon delivery service and a Chrome extension. Jenil spends his time building tools and products that empower designers and developers to enhance the user experience.
Events
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talk Intermediate
Our Design System is too Popular: Helping our Product Teams Understand it's only the Foundation in a Multi-Layered Platform
Main Hall, Monday 17 November 15:45 - 16:20
Our design system, DRUIDS, serves as the foundational layer for Datadog's 20+ products. While highly adopted, this popularity leads to the misconception that every shared UI component belongs to DRUIDS. The reality is a multi-layered approach: product teams build higher-level "kits" that enrich DRUIDS components in product-specific ways. This talk will explore how this technical setup operates in both design tools and codebase, its benefits, and the challenges of guiding designers and engineers in this nuanced ecosystem. We will demonstrate how a multi-layered design system enables organic platform scaling while maintaining a consistent user experience.