About

We started in March of 2025 with just a few folks and have grown intentionally to include design system practitioners from around the world.

We’re a bit unique from other groups in the space, in that we are committed to synthesizing the things we learn and sharing back with the larger community. There’s a level of accountability here that keeps us challenged and engaged.

How we show up

We break down that engagement by describing how we show up in a few key ways.

Daily

We use Discord on a daily basis. This gives us async access to each other and a space to dive deep into discussions, organize specific conversations, and generally to learn more about each other and the work we’re doing.

Weekly

Each week Redwoods members share their weekly standup in Discord. This is a check in that covers a success or two we’ve had in the last week, some items we’re working on this week, and any challenges we’re facing. This keeps us in sync with each other and helps surface areas where we can focus our collective brain power each week.

We also have three times set aside for members to jump into a video call with each other. It’s not expected that everyone attends every call, but making space for one or two of these a week is a healthy way to engage.

Monthly

Each month we run action groups. Every action group has:

• a goal (generally, we want to offer something back to the larger design system community)
• a deadline (we try to keep these to about 30 days)
• an owner (someone to drive the work forward)

All members are welcome to join action groups as they have interest and time. These action groups may co-publish their learnings, develop tools or templates, create presentations, or any other appropriate means of sharing their synthesis.

Quarterly

Our goal as a community is to host an online event each quarter where we share what we’ve been up to in our action groups. Members of Redwoods may co-present, offer smaller lightning talks, or deeper dives into specific areas of learning in this organic online format.