Thoughts – Catherine Stolarski

Talks, Courses, and Writings

I write and speak about one question: what does digital experience mean at enterprise scale? How platforms replace opinions with systems, how governance creates speed instead of killing it, and what happens to both when AI starts generating the interfaces.

Figma Coffee Break: Documentation Design System de l’activation a l’adoption

Figma Coffee Break: Documentation Design System de l'activation a l'adoption
(Talk, FR, April 2024)
Documentation as a product: how we moved practitioners from awareness to daily use.

Design System Journeys du lancement au passage à l’echelle

Design System Journeys du lancement au passage à l'echelle
(Talk,Devoteam, FR, May 2023)
The operating model shifts required between launching a system and scaling one.

The Interface Language: Balancing Universality and Individuality

The Interface Language: Balancing Universality and Individuality
(Talk, Women in Tech, ENG, April 2024)
One design language, hundreds of products, two very different audiences: how far consistency should go, and where it must stop.

Design Decisions Systematised

Design Decisions Systematised
Article, Medium, ENG, 2024)
Why design quality at scale is a decision-architecture problem, not a talent problem.

Design System Governance Best Practices

Design System Governance Best Practices
(Talk, Zeroheight, ENG, December 2023)
How Quartz scaled governance across 250+ products without becoming a bottleneck. The approach that won Best Governance at the Design System Awards 2024.

Scaling-up the Quartz Design System

Scaling-up the Quartz Design Syste
(La Conf Qui Tue Le Game, FR, November 2022)
How the Quartz team scaled the system, and what other organisations took from it.

Simple Signature Complex Interfaces

Simple Signature Complex Interfaces
(Article, Medium, ENG, 2022)
Making industrial-grade complexity feel effortless without dumbing it down.

Linkedin posts and articles

Building Your Brand (ENG)

Design Thinking Principles

Design Thinking Principles (ENG)