Kathleen McMahon
Engineer | Designer | Speaker
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Kathleen is a software engineer, designer, educator, and international conference speaker who builds design systems across engineering and product design. She creates inclusive, accessible foundations for AI-ready workflows through scalable component libraries, token-driven systems, and the tooling and documentation that help teams design, build, and ship with more clarity and consistency.
Kathleen’s a Design Tokens W3C Community Group Specification Editor. Her talks and workshops explore front-end engineering, accessibility, design systems, and modern product development, with a focus on how systems thinking and inclusive implementation improve the way teams build.
Outside of work, she is the Creative Director for the CXsisters network and the best lanterne-rouge cyclocrosser you’ll ever meet.
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Codemotion Madrid 2026 Sessionize Event
jsday 2026 Sessionize Event
MagnoliaConf
The Beachcomber’s Guide to Type-Safe Design Systems.
Codemotion Milan 2025 Sessionize Event
Codemotion Milan
Practical Accessibility in React: The Sand Dollar Approach (Workshop)
DevFest Santiago de Compostela 2025 Sessionize Event
GDG DevFest Santiago de Compostela
- Practical Accessibility in React: The Sand Dollar Approach (Workshop)
- The Beachcomber’s Guide to Type-Safe Design Systems.
React Alicante 2025
- Practical Accessibility in React: The Sand Dollar Approach (Workshop)
- The Beachcomber’s Guide to Type-Safe Design Systems.
React Alicante 2024
- Holy Cannoli! Headless WordPress with NextJS, React, and TailwindCSS
- Sweet, savory, and fresh! Accessible design system Storybook tests.
ConfrontJS 2024
Design System Carnival! One accessible components, many pretty masks.
CityJS London 2024
Design System Carnival! One accessible components, many pretty masks.
React Summit US 2023
Design Systems Carnival! One accessible component, many pretty masks.
Clarity 2023
Design Systems Carnival! One accessible component, many pretty masks.
React Alicante 2023
Bye-we bye, weeds! The Digital Gardening with Astro, SolidJS, & MDX.
JSDayIE 2023
Bye-we bye, weeds! The Digital Gardening with Astro, SolidJS, & MDX.
ReactNext 2023
Bye-we bye, weeds! The Digital Gardening with Astro, SolidJS, & MDX.
React Miami 2023
Design Systems Carnival! One accessible component, many pretty masks.
reactJSday Verona 2022
Design System Carnival! One accessible component, many pretty masks.
React Brussels 2022
Stealth Mode North Star — Rebranding in secret with feature flags
React Miami 2022
Stealth-mode North Star: Rebranding in secret with feature flags
reactJSday 2021 Digital Edition
Stealth-mode North Star: Rebranding in secret with feature flags
axe-con 2021
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
Egghead Talks 2020
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
Codemotion Online 2020
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
React Summit Online 2020
Smoothly Inclusive Component Library Documentation
enterJS 2020
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
MDXConf 2020
Digital Gardening with MDX Magic
Gatsby Days 2020
Smoothly Inclusive: React component library documentation with Gatsby and MDX
Design Systems London 2019
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
Codemotion Milan 2019
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
reactJSday Verona 2019
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
JSDayIE 2019
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
React Day New York 2019
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
Inclusive Design 24 2018
Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious!
Kathleen McMahon
Engineer | Designer | Speaker
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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