Setting Good Metrics in Design

PRESENTATION + Q&A 

This workshop is for anyone interested in navigating metrics and figuring out the right things to look at. As we look into the future, setting good metrics early on helps find the gaps and strategic direction of areas we need to focus on. This talk recounts the reconsiderations we had to make Design Adoption into something actionable.

About a year ago, the Pinterest Design System team, Gestalt, focused their efforts on a new metric: design adoption. A hip, cool new number that’s calculated by looking at component library usage across Figma files. As the organization bought into design adoption, it started uncovering all sorts of new questions.

This workshop provides some of the challenges Pinterest faced with its initial implementation, including fluctuating numbers, variance across different teams, and management aspects and how to manage challenges.