About

Jennie Yip is a Lead Design Systems Engineer at Atlassian with over 17 years of relevant experience in the field. She has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. Jennie has worked with various companies in the past and has extensive experience in designing and building design systems. At Udacity, she worked as a Design Systems Lead for the Veritas Design System, which she built and evangelized. Veritas created focus, clarity, and confidence, and established consistency across all of Udacity's design and development. Jennie crafted an inspiring vision that rallied designers and engineers around building a design system for Udacity, which aligned with business needs to build high-quality digital products at scale. Veritas Design System came to life through a robust roadmap that balanced short-term needs but prioritized infrastructure that focused on efficiency, sustainability, reusability, and impact. Six months after launch, adoption for Veritas spread across 28 projects throughout several core experiences of Udacity. Jennie conducted research surveys to assess the efficacy of the system, and the results were impressive. 90% stated Veritas saved them time in design/development, and 75% found Veritas to be extremely useful for usability, accessibility, cross-browser dependability, and responsiveness. All of them recommended Veritas to their teammates. She also coached team members to unleash their best systems thinking by framing challenges strategically in a way that made them stretch to build solutions that solved multiple problems. Jennie led the codification of design patterns and best practices into an ecosystem of design tokens, SCSS styles, React components, Sketch libraries, and a robust documentation site. She designed a workflow to guide efforts towards building high-quality components and inclusive APIs, which included UX research, design reviews, and a quality checklist. Jennie synthesized Veritas feedback systematically while balancing flexibility and resilience. Decision making often included consulting, advising, delegating, and contemplating risks and tradeoffs. She conducted quarterly reflections with team members to cultivate awareness and identify successes, challenges, perspectives, and preferences to iterate and improve system processes. At Udacity, Jennie also worked as a Senior Front-end Design Engineer, playing a central role in the design, development, and delivery of Udacity's product and marketing projects. She led the rebrand and execution of numerous product launches and marketing campaigns on the Udacity.com website, which served a global audience of over 5 million students. Jennie demonstrated leadership and influence on