Design Systems Week 2023
From 2 to 5 October NL Design System has organised the third edition of Design Systems Week. Speakers from various organisations have joined us for short talks about the how and why of design systems.
Videos
The future of design decisions
Marco-Christian Krenn - GitHub & Jan Six - GitHub
Marco-Christian Krenn and Jan Six team up to present The future of design decisions. Delve into the transition from design tokens to dynamic design, impacting areas like accessibility, and revealing the profound implications of choices. This engaging discussion underscores the essential connection between internal decisions and the source of truth.
You get a glimpse into the future around design tokens and learn about all the possibilities.
Design systems as public infrastructure
Mu-An Chiou - Public Digital Innovation Space, Cabinet Office, Taiwan
Government digital services should be treated as public infrastructure in this day and age. Taiwan is in a rare position where there is an urgency to ensure digital resilience for all government services.
The design system and especially the engineering of it plays a crucial part in digital resilience as modern warfare has become increasingly digital. In this talk Mu-An will share the initiative, the challenges, and the ambitions of the Taiwanese digital services, focusing on the design system aspect.
The GOV.UK Prototype Kit
Joe Lanman - GOV.UK
A set of components is one thing, but the true magic comes when they are put in use together. At GOV.UK they make it easier to prototype realistic digital services in HTML, with the GOV.UK Prototype Kit. Designer Joe Lanman is involved in this project as a designer and tells you more about it!
Joe Lanman is a Design Lead at the UK Government Digital Service, based in London. He’s worked on projects including Register to Vote, Petition Parliament and the GOV.UK Prototype Kit – a way to rapidly prototype realistic services in HTML.
Estonia Design System
Aleksandr Beliaev - Nortal
Veera is a codename for a design system employed by many Estonian governmental agencies as a common UI language for the state of Estonia. Aleksandr will be talking about his and his colleagues' experiences setting up, maintaining, and supporting a component library that makes this design system breathe.
Attend if you are interested in learning from a complex real-life case study. This is a story from a country which is proud to be called the first digital society. It is also a story about managing expectations, importance of DX, self-restraint, and naming things.