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Our next speaker is Josh Thompson, Design Lead at from Publicis Sapient

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Design Systems with augmented teams: best practice for connection and alignment

#uxa2021 #uxaustralia

Josh will take us through:

Distributed asynchronous teams are the new normal — Josh's talk will be focussed around his experience working in this context

No design system can be siloed, misaligned, inconsistent and not serving all users.

Why do you need a design system?

As your team grows scaling design reduces the development throughput — a design system brings the different teams and capabilities together to create consistent experiences through shared component libraries.

A design system is always ready and never finished.

Benefits of a design system

Visibility — moving from individual to multiple users.
Faster delivery — component libraries
Standardisation — reduction in design and tech debt
Predictable safe scale
Flexibility — future integration with tools and methodologies

The stages of a design system:

What are some of the tools?

Components: Experience Design, Sketch, Photoshop, Figma

Versioning: Zeplin, Abstract

System management: Storybook, zeroheight, Invision DSM

A design system is the aggregation of marginal gain — get the basics right to reach those bigger goals!

As your company grows and scales, take the steps to lay the proper foundations, and every business unit is onboard with.

Start small
Develop proof of concept
Ensure alignment
Set principles
Set goals
Define tokens and guidelines
Scale

Thanks Josh!

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