Design System Database

Product Design
Prototyping
Research
Lead visual and product design for the Design System Database product at Google. Collaborated closely with product and research to design and prototype features that helped teams create or maintain a design system using tokens through web-based tools and Figma-based plugins.



Design system data, like color, was integrated directly into guideline articles combining the token and usage information.
Similar to style tokens, component viewers were also integrated into their respective guideline pages.
The editing experience provided ways to create, edit, update and delete tokens or token groups.



A series of Figma plugins represented a set of Material user painpoints which became a vehicle for foundational research and a product roadmap.
Figma plugin which allows the designer to browse patterns provided by Material Design.
Figma plugin which uses AI to “reattach” components or allows the user to submit a new one.
Figma plugin which allows syncing between a users design system database and a Figma library. 

Collaborators—
Clara Kliman-Silver
Miche Alvarez
Clayton Meador




David Allin Reese

davallree@gmail.com
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About

Hello there, my name is David Allin and I’m currently a Senior Designer leading visual and product design for Google’s smartglasses platform. I also co-lead Studio Woo Woo an installation and ceramic studio.

I’m personally interested in the influence of written and visual languages, and how they have the power to transform the way we interact with or interpret the world. 

I am very grateful you’ve made it this far, and I invite you to reach out anytime. It’s fun to make friends on the internet.

Skills

Product Design
Visual Design
Art Direction
Prototyping
Motion
Illustration
Sculpture