One of the core tenets of good design is simplicity, but what if your stuff just isn't that simple? What do you do when you have a 30-column table, mountains of metrics, bushels of button actions, or a ton of text fields that need to be shown? What do you do when stakeholders push for bold text, colors, animations, and icons to make certain data stand out on an already cluttered screen? What happens when a design started simple but as new features keep getting added, so does button after button?

Ash has been designing around complexity for over a decade. In this talk, they will share their tips on how to triage each element of data on the screen to determine priority, purpose, and decision points. They'll also share some tips and tricks on patterns and component ideas to help you better layout your UIs and workflows.
Some things cannot be made simple, but they can be made better.