The Junior UX Crunch: Design Systems

A design system is a collection of reusable components, guided by clear standards, that can be assembled to build any number of applications. This helps organizations scale design and development with speed and consistency. Whether in-house or with an agency, design systems are a part of a senior designers routine.

Junior roles are being promoted at this event so if you are looking for a new role this event is not to be missed!

Featuring:

Oana Mihoc - Global Digital Experience Manager - Avon

Abdus Salam - Product and UX Designer - CBS Interactive

Apparicio Junior & Chris O’Grady - Senior UX and Art Director - Investis Digital

Shalyn Wilkins - Junior UX Designer - BBC

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TALKS & DISCUSSIONS

Abdus Salam - Lead Product Designer - CBS Interactive

Abdus is responsible for the end-to-end product design for their in-house digital products, including product strategy, interaction design, visual design and prototyping.

This talk will cover the basics using Atomic Design Principles and discuss what it takes to build a good design system (semantic color scheming, type scale, nesting, naming conventions, and accessibility etc.), and the importance of it being used and managed between teams to be really successful. He will be sharing some real-life examples and resources including his learnings from setting up a design system.

Chris O’Grady & Apparicio Junior - Art Director / Senior UX Designer - Investis Digital

Chris and Apparcico currently work on top FTSE100 and 250 businesses leading the artistic and user-centred approach to corporate story telling online and improving peoples lives with design.

The talk will explore what a design system is and how design systems are used in house and in an agency environment. It will show how Investis created a flexible system based in atomic design as well as the reality of how hard is to create a design system for an specific agency environment.

Shalyn Wilkins - Junior UX Designer - BBC

Shalyn is a Junior UX Designer in the Systems & Service design team at the BBC. She designs internal tools that enable BBC creators to create content.

Shalyn will talk about how the BBC use their ‘GEL’ design system to create audience facing products. She will also discuss how the internal systems design team have created their own design system and the uses and complexities that this comes with.

Oana Mihoc - Global Digital Experience Manager - Avon

Oana has been an entrepreneur and self-starter for over a decade and has recently found a full-time exciting home in the most unexpected of places for such an independent profile: Avon Global Headquarters. She is working on refreshing the customer-facing digital assets as part of the radical global digital transformation that Avon is undergoing now.

The challenge of taking a global business that has been built for 133 years as an offline business and leading it through full digital transformation is not as easy as one may think, especially for a company of Avon’s complexity. It means taking a portfolio of diverse digital assets and combining them into a unified view, that fits all local business models, all 6.5 million small business owners’ needs and all legal requirements across the globe, while trying to promote consistency of design.