Remix: Building a Cohesive Web Presence with Web Components

Remember the mixtape? You'd pull together your favorite tracks from different albums and artists, arranging them into something that felt like a unified whole. Building a web presence for a large organization works the same way — except instead of songs, you're mixing UI components across dozens of sites, platforms, and departments.

Web components are a set of web standards built directly into the browser that let you create reusable, encapsulated UI elements — no framework lock-in required. When paired with a design system, they become the tracks on your mixtape: consistent, interchangeable building blocks that content authors and site developers can mix, match, and remix to deliver a cohesive experience everywhere your organization shows up on the web.

This session explores how web components, a set of standards built directly into the browser, can power a shared design system and component library that content authors and developers alike can remix across an entire organization. We'll look at what makes this approach especially compelling for higher education institutions, where decentralized teams and diverse platforms make consistency a constant challenge.

Whether you're in web development, web design, marcomm, or leadership, this session will show you how to stop managing chaos and start curating a cohesive web presence — one track at a time.