DWP Design System

A lightning talk I gave to the Cross Government Patterns meet-up on the 15th Dec 2016 in Leeds.

Transcript

1. DWP Design System @paulmsmith
2. Paul Smith
 Senior Front-end Developer
3. Why does DWP
 need a design system?
4. @paulmsmith Design in a government department can be tricky!
5. @paulmsmith 30+ years of legacy
6. @paulmsmith 70K+ employees
7. @paulmsmith lots of services & internal systems Photo credit: Colin Oakley (@htmlandbacon)
8. Departments such as DWP have their own problems in how they organise themselves to deliver the best possible services to users.
9. @paulmsmith GDS + DWP A clear vision to align our efforts
10. @paulmsmith GDS DESIGN SYSTEM DWP DESIGN SYSTEM DEPT Z DESIGN SYSTEM DEPT Y DESIGN SYSTEM DVLA DESIGN SYSTEM HMRC DESIGN SYSTEM HOME OFFICE DEPT X DESIGN SYSTEM
11. @paulmsmith Design principles
 Service Manual
 GOV.UK Design Patterns
 GOV.UK Frontend
 Government as a Platform GDS DESIGN SYSTEM
12. @paulmsmith Frontend components
 Service patterns
 Design patterns Content styleguide
 Design assets
 User research DWP DESIGN SYSTEM
13. Composition is a foundational part of design. It allows us to reason about a smaller part of a greater system. It enables us to reuse what exists, saving us time on otherwise repetitive and tedious work. Rasmus Andersson
 Facebook
14. @paulmsmith GDS Patterns DWP Patterns DWP Service
15. Design systems decrease the distance between research insights and product release Nate Baldwin Adobe UX
16. FRACTAL TRIAL
17. A design system should not simply be a collection of user interface components along with some design theory. Jeff Crossman - Product Designer GE Predix Design System
18. Make the right thing to do, the easy thing to do!
19. @paulmsmith
20. @paulmsmith Design Systems Slack community,
 Mark Perkins (& Clearleft), Jina anne, Nate Baldwin, Stuart Robson & Nathan Curtis
 Ben Holliday (& DWP UX), Robin, David, Gemma (& GDS). 
 
 Thank you