Design Systems London is a non-profit community conference for 200 designers and engineers to share experiences, ideas, and approaches on how to design, build and maintain design systems.
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Design Systems London will hold deep-dive workshops on design and code on 15th November, a day before the DSL conference.
Hana Lodhi & Antonas Deduchovas
Want to create an original design system that serves your product, but not sure where to start? In this workshop you will learn how to create product principles that underpin the whole of the design system and guide UI, UX, engineering and strategy decisions. If you are a part of a product team and people call you a UI designer, UX designer or software engineer this is for you. By the end of the workshop you'll have a solid understanding of how to create principles that formulate the foundation of an authentic design system.
1. Introduction to product principles within the context of design systems
2. Methods and processes of creating product principles
3. How to translate product principles into discipline-specific design system assets
4. Application of product principles to UI, UX, engineering, strategy and teams
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* Full-day (9-5) workshop on 15 November, sponsored by and hosted at YLD (124 Aldersgate St, London EC1A 4JQ).
Jina Anne
When you get to create a design system from scratch in parallel with designing a new product, it's an exciting, new adventure in architecture, organization, and defining all the things. But the reality is most people are not starting from scratch. Most people are either inheriting a design system that already exists, or are trying to apply a design system to a product that already exists. So where do we start when that is the case? This workshop focuses on this real-world scenario most of us face in design systems, and how to move forward:
1. Refresher on Why We Do Design Systems in the First Place.
2. Refactoring and Realigning a Current Design System.
3. Retrofitting a New Design System into an Old Product.
4. Reinforcing Your Design System for Longevity and Maintainability.
We will also have some discussions and share ideas, which will help us move forward with the design systems we work on.
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* Full-day (9-5) workshop on 15 November, hosted in Fleet Street (154 - 160 Fleet Street, Blackfriars, EC4A 2DQ)
* Worksop-only & Combo x DSL conf tickets available
Siddharth Kshetrapal & Fernando Carrettoni
This is a hands-on workshop for designers and developers in which you will learn how to define a common language for collaboration and iterate on products faster.
Learn the best practices of component driven design and how to standardize your design patterns. Leverage Figma and React to build a component library that can be used in products and can evolve as teams use it. At the end of the day, you will have a small but complete Design system implementation that will cover the full product lifecycle.
Sections will cover intro to design systems; design concepts; development and collaboration.
During this hands-on workshop designer & developer will work in pairs.
If you are a designer with experience in the field of product design and familiar with tools like Figma or Sketch, this workshop is for you.
For developers, basic knowledge of React would go a long way.
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* Full-day workshop (9-5) on 15 November, hosted by Figma in Fleet Street (154 - 160 Fleet Street, Blackfriars, EC4A 2DQ)
* Separate tickets for designers and developers or pair combo available
Sara Vieira
React is a great tool to allow developers and designers to collaborate and build amazing apps and components together. This workshop is directed at people that have no experience with React to get them ready to build React components.
The workshop is free - join the waitlist when getting DSL ticket. Priority will be given for those from underrepresented backgrounds (including but not limited to women, people of colour, LGBTQIA+ or disabled people). Spots are very limited.
* Full-day workshop (9-5) hosted at Conde Nast international (The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam St, London WC2N 6HT)
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The DSL conference and afterparty will take place at Oval Space - an evolving arts & event space in the heart of East London.
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We had a small number of diversity tickets available to those from underrepresented backgrounds (including but not limited to women, people of colour, LGBTQIA+ or disabled people).
* Thank you for applying, the winners have been contacted. If you had purchased a DSL ticket beforehand and are then selected for a diversity scholarship, we will refund your purchase.
Design Systems London is built by and for the community. The conference is inspired by the previously organised open-source conference ReactFest where Sid gave a talk on Design Systems with React.
Both ReactFest and DSL are brought to you by front-end and design communities from various meetups and non-profit conferences - we can't thank them enough for providing spaces for learning.
100% of profits will be invested back into the community - have your say on this when you get your ticket.
Thank you to our partners and sponsors for investing into our diverse design and engineering community:
Join the conversation with 200 experienced engineers and designers discussing the future of design systems.
