Design System Day 2024 sessions
Doors at St George’s Hall will be open from 9am and you will need to check in at the reception desk.
Welcoming remarks will start at 9:45am in the Great Hall. We will close the check in desk at 10am.
Agenda
Welcome
Kelly Lee and Trang Erskine, GOV.UK Design System team
9:45am to 10am
Opening keynote
Greg Macoy
10am to 10:30am
A talk with: Chikako Masuda from Digital Agency, Government of Japan
Chikako Masuda
10:30am to 11:15am
Break
11:15am to 11:35am
Content panel discussion
With Lucy Brennan, Olivia Waring and Chris Lightfoot
11:35am to 12:20pm
Think about content differently. We’ll show you how an expansive use of content design can influence stakeholders and build trust in services. Sharing examples from government, the NHS and a local council, we’ll show how content provides context to the design system.
Lunch
12:20pm to 1:15pm
Welcome back energiser
1:15pm to 1:30pm
The value of performance analysis in design systems
Duncan MacGruer
1:30pm to 2pm
When developing a digital service, it’s rare to think about how it actually performs. This is particularly true when we are dealing in fragmented landscapes with complex end-to-end user journeys.
To demonstrate why you should add a performance resource to your Design System, I’ll explain how the Scottish Government is tracking captures, user interactions and real questions we’ve answered.
Light and dark: product managers in design systems
Michael Palmer
Alessandra Balliana
2pm to 2:45pm
Break
2:45pm to 3pm
Closing keynote: The power of connection through communities of practice
Emily Webber
3pm to 3:45pm
Humans are social beings; we are wired to connect. In a world where we are spending more time apart through hybrid working or just working too much, we need connection more than ever.
In this talk, Emily, author of Building Successful Communities of Practice, will share some of her experience of building communities of practice for around 20 years, how she brought them into the workplace and the power they have to support people, grow confidence and skills, bridge knowledge, create the space for collaboration across silos and generally make people happier.
Closing remarks
3:45pm to 4pm
Social (optional)
4pm to 5pm
Join us for an optional social afterwards where you can mix with other attendees for a chat and a drink.
Need help?
If you’ve got a question about the GOV.UK Design System, contact the team.