STAR Stories Index
All
👑 Leadership
⚔️ Conflict
🤷♂️ Ambiguity
💥 Failure
🙌 Cross-functional
🎯 Influence
💡 Innovation
⚖️ Prioritization
♾️ Process
🤖 AI
🎨 DS
10 of 10 stories
Design system vision for new brand
Took the brand direction focused on marketing and modified it to work for product
leadership
influence
ambiguity
ds
Wicked Sidekick needed a design system fast
Built a working design system in code in a week
innovation
prioritization
ai
ds
A design system for Wicked Sidekick that agents can use
Upgraded Storybook to include the MCP server
ai
process
ds
Designing a system for BitDek that would support future functionality
Created a vision of future possibilities and worked backwards to a data model that would support it
ambiguity
prioritization
Building a tool to design visualizers
Built an in-app tool to customize and refine visualizer designs
ai
process
ambiguity
innovation
Aligning Brightcove on the design system
Aligned engineers, designers, and product management on the use of the design system
leadership
cross-functional
ds
Led cross-functional Beacon Studio meetings to define new objects and metadata
Aligned team on the new objects that needed to be built and the necessary metadata
ambiguity
leadership
cross-functional
influence
Clarified differences between Permissions and Access Control
Prevented scope creep by making sure the team understood the complexity and differences
leadership
ambiguity
conflict
Facilitated design workshops for Beacon
Kicked off the design of the Beacon user experience with participation from the whole team
leadership
ambiguity
process
Designed a Media Selector that could be used throughout Brightcove's products
A self-contained component that included business logic
innovation
ds