[▲ Vercel Community](/) · [Categories](/categories) · [Latest](/latest) · [Top](/top) · [Live](/live) [Showcase](/c/showcase/41) # Building An Essential Design System 281 views · 13 likes · 9 posts Ryan Furrer (@ryandotfurrer) · 2025-03-19 · ♥ 5 # Building An Essential Design System: **Lessons from Vercel's Geist** :waving_hand: Hey all! I had the pleasure of being the community speaker at Vercel's NYC Meetup that took place on Wednesday, March 12 where I talked about building an essential design system; something that I am passionate about and feel many could do to make their projects stand out. Anyway, I've posted the video on YouTube and thought I should share here, since it's due to @kapehe that I was given the opportunity to this! [Watch my talk on YouTube!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtNgpS43D5g)  Pauline P. Narvas (@pawlean) · 2025-03-19 · ♥ 1 It was so wonderful to meet you in person, Ryan! Thank you so much for all the wisdom that you shared with the community. It was definitely a crowd favourite ;) See you at a future one! Ryan Furrer (@ryandotfurrer) · 2025-03-19 · ♥ 1 You too! I wish we got more time together — hopefully at future one for sure! Avik Creator (@avik-creator) · 2025-03-23 · ♥ 1 Nice talk, I wish I was there in the US. Got to know a lot. Can I get the link of the slides? Josh Dunsterville (@neversitdull) · 2025-03-23 · ♥ 1 Finally found some time to watch this! Great primer on design systems. Well done Ryan, and thanks for sharing! 🙌 Codescandy (@codescandy) · 2025-03-24 · ♥ 1 Amazing, thank you for sharing these lessons with us. Ryan Furrer (@ryandotfurrer) · 2025-03-24 · ♥ 2 Hi Avik! Thanks so much — here is a link to the [written version](https://dub.sh/rdf-design-system) which has a link to the slides in it. Ryan Furrer (@ryandotfurrer) · 2025-03-24 · ♥ 1 Thanks, Josh! That's exactly what I wanted it to be. I'm looking forward to (hopefully) being able to talk more on this with a little more than 10-minutes 😅 Ryan Furrer (@ryandotfurrer) · 2025-03-24 Thank you so much for watching!
