Allison Shaw

She/her. Director of Design Systems @zendesk. Into design systems, Star Wars, Scully, Stevie Nicks, my dog, accessibility, and dismantling white supremacy.

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

ok design twitter refer your best: i'm hiring a sr visual/UI designer to work closely w me & a small team to refresh Zendesk's visual language and other special projects 😈 more details + application here: https://t.co/SNJu6Qvhqu

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

@sanarao THIS. B2Bs everywhere are experiencing serious headwinds right now—companies are cutting tools & seats, even for fundamentally necessary software. Is it better for Figma to use up all their runway, do layoffs, etc? Or to exit and leverage ex-competitor reserves to do more? smh

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

Zendesk’s Garden Design System is hiring a Staff engineer with a knack for product and an eye for design. Come provide technical leadership on our small-but-mighty (and growing!) team as we take on 2023’s big goals. Tons of greenfield, DM me for more deets https://t.co/i4Kuem9sdJ

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

@GGNRANPSAlerts the bathrooms on Ocean Beach @ Sloat/Great Highway are closed! Thought they were supposed to be open??

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

i really try not to come on here just to complain but jfc how have we been computing for 50 years and we still can not reliably print

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

all these prodigal sons leaving sf ✌️

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

say it louder for the people in the back

[kyle turman @kyleturman]

One of my biggest pet peeves is when designers or engineers blame bad user experiences on the design system.

A design system does not solve user problems, it's a *tool* to solve user problems. If the way you're implementing the system is a bad user experience, that's on you bud.

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

quake? quake.

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

Calling all #Accessibility engineers! Zendesk is hiring a Staff level engineer to be a founding member of our Product Accessibility team. Make huge impact at a company doing accessibility for all the right reasons. https://t.co/E1wR8jrDbe

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

I'm hiring an exciting new role at Zendesk: a Principal Visual UI Designer to help us keep Zendesk's product design language freshhh. Job description: https://t.co/KmfgEx2GJm
Please help me spread the word—and send your referrals my way!

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

Every time I see someone in our industry refer to a "war room," I feel so sad.

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

One way or another, I always end up crying during inaugurations. Today, for the VP, it was with pride and hope.

[Vice President Kamala Harris Archived @VP46Archive]

It's an honor to be your Vice President.

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

It sure did. But if we’re going with SW theme, remember that 30 years later the New Republic was in shambles and another fascist dictatorship had taken over.

We don’t live on Tatooine. The point is that our work towards a more perfect union is never over, we must always engage.

[kyle turman @kyleturman]

I just really can’t get over how much yesterday felt like the party at the end of Return of the Jedi

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

We haven’t had a successful constitutional amendment since 1992. It’s time.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Good morning. The @GOP have now lost the popular vote in 7 of the last 8 presidential elections.

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

Similarly, people will tell me that I must have had such a hard childhood because my sister was disabled, that it wasn't a normal childhood. As though my sister couldn't possibly have brought any joy or light into my family's life.

Normal is what you know.

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

OMG I have a sketch notes for my own talk I’m kinda hyperventilating. Thank you @Clarity_conf!

[Clarity @Clarity_conf]

Then we had @allisonacs with Accessibility Beyond Color Contrast #clarity2020

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

Finishing my thought: We do know people who need accessible products (they might even be us!), but we may not know who they are because able-ism is so prevalent in our society.

[AS @aaaa_sssssss_]

Allison Shaw about #a11y: »One of the hardest things is that most people don’t know anyone for whom they should build accessible products. 👉🏽 There is a reason why we don’t know people, who need accessible products …« @allisonacs at @Clarity_conf #clarity2020 🤔 😔

[Allison Shaw @allisonacs]

I didn't think this was going to be how my talk at Clarity went down, but I'm super pumped at how awesome this remote conference is! Way to go @jina and @kickasscon! #clarity2020 (also it is super trippy to be watching my own talk ha!)