Over the last five years, the Datadog platform has grown. We added Application Performance Monitoring to complement our core infrastructure monitoring product, Log Management, Synthetic and Real User Monitoring, and more. For an enterprise software platform to be successful, the whole has to be greater than the sum of its parts. In Datadog’s case, this means users must be able to connect different types of data, pivot seamlessly from one context to another, and follow the thread of an investigation wherever it might lead.

Dependable and repeatable UX patterns are key to this. If something works one way in one part of the platform, users expect it to work the same way elsewhere. To ensure our users would have a familiar experience across Datadog as we expanded to dozens of products, we started building a design system called Datadog Reusable User Interface Design System (DRUIDS).

In this session, you’ll hear from Derek Howles, Staff Product Designer, and Vincent Volckaert, Staff Software Engineer, to learn what design systems are, the problems they solve, Datadog’s guiding principles for user experience, getting buy-in from Designers and Frontend Engineers, and more.