Initiating a Design System

A design system as a repository of user interface conventions, styles, and components is critical to designing and developing high quality products at speed and scale. This seminar addresses the opportunities and challenges of establishing a design system to be used by multiple product teams including: multi-disciplinary participation, integrating with legacy designs and technology platforms, UI framework choices, staffing, and selling the value to the organization.

What You'll Learn:

• How to frame the benefits of  a design system to designers, developers, and senior leadership
• How to incorporate a design system initiative into an established company with multiple products of varying ages
• How a design system complements agile transformations

Topics include:

• How design systems accelerate product design and development and measures of success
• The organizational challenges with funding, staffing, and selling design systems
• Reconciling legacy product designs with a new design system - visual and technical considerations
• How to make technology choices in a heterogeneous technology environment
• Establishing business and organizational processes for sustaining a design system
• Building a design systems team -- roles, responsibilities, process