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Design System Workshop

What is a Design System?

You may be working in a larger group with in-house or agency consultancy.

You may be spearheading the creative as a lone pioneer – either way there is an opportunity to recommend best practice ways of working. By the end of my workshop, participants will be able understand overall Design System concepts.

Leveraged Design Thinking since 2011

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Create a collaborative environment and set your team on the path to success.

Aim: Understand that reusable components, guided by clear standards, can be assembled together to build a digital offer

Acknowledge how Design Systems and Developers link together
Understand the importance of file distribution, organisation, branching, and library cascades
Take on board where governance, be able to clarify where components (by platform) sit, and how the system dovetails into Agile

Design systems are made of many components, patterns, styles, and guidelines, which can help operationalise and optimise your design efforts. However, they are designed, managed, and implemented by people.

Scale, replicability, resources and time available are all key considerations. When poorly implemented and maintained, design systems can become unwieldy collections of components and code; but, when implemented well, they can educate team members, streamline work, and enable designers to tackle complex UX problems, fast.

How to facilitate an ideation workshop around solving problems, understanding through ideation, knowledge sharing (based on agreed on personas) and then attributing those personas, via SMEs validation, to surfacing UI to promote next steps plotted on a goal-oriented roadmap. — How to facilitate an ideation workshop around solving problems, understanding through ideation, knowledge sharing (based on agreed on personas)

Want to go fast early?

This workshop can help your organisation kick-start that process

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FAQs

What are design systems?

The workshop kickstarts with a brief overview of the concept, its benefits (consistency, efficiency, scalability), and how it impacts user experience.

Is Atomic Design still relevant?

A popular methodology for structuring design systems by breaking down interfaces into fundamental building blocks (atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, pages) is still usable today – In this middle section we go deeper on why.

What is the contribution model?

Learn how team members can contribute to the design system and keep it up-to-date?

How can I encourage adoption?

As we conclude, there are strategies to promote the use of the design system and hints and tips on how to address potential resistance from colleagues.

CASE STUDIES

Design with the dark mode trend front-of-mind

Delight, speed and satisfaction are rewriting our UX playbooks in finance

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