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name: Tyrone J. Fontaine
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position-title: Web Designer
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institution: Cleveland Public Library
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image_alt: A person sits comfortably cross-legged before a mural of animals, bundled in a jacket and beanie, projecting a reflective mood with a hint of quiet humor.
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title: "Making the library web design process more collaborative // A case study using Figma to develop strategy-focused web solutions"
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At a time when libraries are doing amazing digital work, it’s deeply rewarding to help shape the tools that share those stories. This talk walks through how one public library built a lightweight design library in Figma, complete with reusable page patterns, motion guidelines, and component documentation, and began connecting it to live data like LibCal through a simple API. Along the way, you’ll see how small steps toward consistency and creativity can make design more collaborative, less intimidating, and a lot more fun. This reframing of the library web design process allows team members without expertise in web coding and graphic design to participate equally, including sharing critical input using their expertise and intended strategy to better inform a more user-friendly and innovative website. The session includes a short demo showing how a Figma “sandbox” can pull real library events or books into mockups, turning static design into something alive. It’s part how-to, part love letter to the power of library design work, and a reminder that what we’re building really does make a difference.
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At a time when libraries are doing ambitious digital work, it’s deeply rewarding to shape the tools that share those stories. This session explores how one public library began building a lightweight design library in Figma, focused on reusable page patterns, motion guidelines, and shared documentation.
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What started as a way to bring visual consistency to projects evolved into a pattern-based workflow that mirrors real WordPress block structures. By aligning Figma components directly with Gutenberg patterns, the team moved beyond static mockups toward layouts that can be copied, pasted, and deployed.
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This shift transformed the process. Staff without coding expertise can participate meaningfully in page composition and strategy, while developers maintain structural consistency. Instead of design being a handoff, it becomes a shared system.
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The session includes a short demo of this Figma “sandbox” in action, showing how visual composition can translate directly into production-ready layouts. Part case study and part practical workflow, it’s a reflection on how small structural changes can make library web design more collaborative, less intimidating, and more sustainable.
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