Thursday 4 June | Delivery day
Putting the user at the centre of your design system
With Alex Edwards
Design systems are often thought of as a product.They promise cost savings and time efficiencies when creating and launching new products.
In our experience working on multiple design systems, what is most often overlooked is also the key factor that leads to success or failure. This is the need to deeply understand the needs of the user of the design system and then to create both a process and a product that works for them.
In this talk, we’ll share a recent experience working with UAL (University of the Arts London) on reinventing and relaunching their multi-product design system using a human-first approach.
We’ll cover tips and tricks for co-designing and continual testing with system users to increase product adoption, and for communicating and socialising the system with internal stakeholders to raise awareness and engagement. We’ll also show some of the finished product.
