Clarity

Name: Clarity 2016 · San Francisco
Start: 2016-03-31
End: 2016-04-01
Location: San Francisco, United States

The dedicated community conference for design systems, founded by Jina Anne.

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Latest edition

December 2025

Location

Palm Springs, United States

Format

Hybrid

Cadence

Annual

Organiser

Jina Anne

About Clarity

Clarity is a community conference focused specifically on design systems. It brings together systems designers, engineers, and leaders to discuss governance, design tokens, tooling, and team practice.

The programme reflects the maturing of design systems work, including how AI affects systems and the path from design to code. It has become a central gathering for the design systems community.

Editions

2025
2–4 Dec
Palm Springs
1 speaker
2024
25–26 Sep
15 speakers
2023
1–2 Nov
San Francisco
18 speakers
2022
10–11 Nov
New Orleans
15 speakers
2021
27–29 Oct
19 speakers
2020
2–4 Sep
16 speakers
2019
20–21 Aug
San Francisco
16 speakers
2018
11–12 Dec
New York City
16 speakers
2017
28–29 Nov
San Francisco
15 speakers
2016
31 Mar–1 Apr
San Francisco
16 speakers
Speakers in 2016Speakers at Clarity 2016
31 Mar–1 AprSan Francisco
Amélie Lamont
Anna Pickard
Being Human, Being Slack
Brad Frost
The Thing Is Design Systems. The Time Is Now.
Brandon Ferrua
Crawl, Walk, Run: The Evolution of a Design System
Chris Coyier
Claudina Sarahe
Deconstructing Web Systems: A Pattern Language for Web Development
Cordelia McGee-Tubb
Baking Accessibility In
Donna Chan
Isaak Hayes
Building Empowering Style Guides with Practical Research
Jeremy Perez-Cruz
Living Systems: Brand in the Context of People’s Lives
Maya Benari
Turning the Ship: Living Design Systems in the Federal Government
Miriam Suzanne
Code Patterns for Pattern-Making
Nathan Curtis
Beyond the Toolkit: Spreading a System Across People & Products
Rachel Nabors
Communicating Animation
Richard Danne
Designing for Earthlings & Astronauts
Stephanie Rewis
Crawl, Walk, Run: The Evolution of a Design System

Speakers in 2016Speakers at Clarity 2016

31 Mar–1 AprSan Francisco

Amélie Lamont
Anna Pickard
Being Human, Being Slack
Brad Frost
The Thing Is Design Systems. The Time Is Now.
Brandon Ferrua
Crawl, Walk, Run: The Evolution of a Design System
Chris Coyier
Claudina Sarahe
Deconstructing Web Systems: A Pattern Language for Web Development