Design Operations London 2025

Inayaili León is Director of Design Operations at GitHub. She combines her hands-on design background with her passion for creating clear processes that enable design teams to successfully deliver on their most critical priorities. 

She began her career as a designer, giving her firsthand experience of the challenges practitioners face. Her extensive experience includes roles as Senior Designer at Microsoft, Lead Designer at Canonical, and consulting on and leading various design systems projects. This perspective now helps her build better ways for teams to work together, and create consistent, high-quality designs. 

She's authored two books, published by Apress: "Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites" and "Moving to Responsive Web Design". When she's not leading design operations initiatives, she shares her knowledge through articles in industry publications and on her blog. She regularly speaks at international conferences about improving how design teams work and building effective systems. 

She's Panamanian Portuguese, lives in London, and loves tea and podcasts.