Upcoming webinar: Design Systems for digital consistency

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  • Explore Design Systems for faster, more robust and consistent digital design and development

  • Explore Design Systems for faster, more robust and consistent digital design and development

You've heard industry experts talking about Design Systems for a while now, but it might still be unclear what it actually entails. In this webinar, you'll learn what a Design System is, why it can be advantageous, and when it might be unnecessary. This session will help you to consider whether implementing a Design System is the right next step for your company's digital operations.

And now for our best explanation of what a Design System is:

Imagine you're a chef crafting a multi-course meal. Each dish represents a part of your product, and the Design System is your master cookbook, providing standardised recipes, pre-made sauces, and pre-cut ingredients to ensure consistency and efficiency in every dish.

The ingredients are your design elements—colours, typography, buttons, and icons. The Design System curates these elements, offering pre-made components that save time, allowing chefs to focus on creativity and refinement.

Just as a well-planned meal delights diners, a Design System ensures all components come together to create a cohesive user experience across different platforms, making your digital product both efficient and delightful while still allowing for creative flexibility.

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Design System

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Digital experiences (Meals)

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Molecules (Dish Elements)

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Atoms (Raw Ingredients)

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Atoms (Raw Ingredients)

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To extend our chef metaphor, if you're a small local restaurant where one chef can personally control everything and hold all recipes and quality control in their own hands, the complexity of a Design System might be overkill. However, for larger chains like Honest Burger or Wagamama, which have multiple chefs across numerous locations, a Design System is essential. It ensures that every customer experiences the same high quality and consistency, regardless of which restaurant they visit.

For organisations of a certain scale, where multiple teams work on products and features, a Design System is crucial. It provides a unified approach, ensuring that every user interaction is consistent and high-quality, while also speeding up development and maintaining efficiency.

Below, we've listed some of the pains and challenges that organisations face, which often lead them to adopt a Design System.

Accelerating time to value 🚀

Launching New Features

Launching New Features

Scale of Design System

Scale of Design System

What's in a Design System?

Design kit

Styleguide

Interactions

Component library

Pattern library

Code snippets

Developer sandbox

Frontend framework

UI testing

Documentation

Technical guide

Design usage

Comprehensive Design Kit

Design kit provides the foundational building blocks for creating consistent and cohesive designs across projects

Design kit

Styleguide

Interactions

Component library

Pattern library

Code snippets

Developer sandbox

Frontend framework

UI testing

Documentation

Technical guide

Design usage

Design kit provides the foundational building blocks for creating consistent and cohesive designs across projects

Design kit

Styleguide

Interactions

Component library

Pattern library

Code snippets

Developer sandbox

Frontend framework

UI testing

Documentation

Technical guide

Design usage

Comprehensive Design Kit

Design kit provides the foundational building blocks for creating consistent and cohesive designs across projects

Design kit

Styleguide

Interactions

Component library

Pattern library

Code snippets

Developer sandbox

Frontend framework

UI testing

Documentation

Technical guide

Design usage

Driving more efficient and accelerated product development

Driving more efficient and accelerated product development

Driving more efficient and accelerated product development

Consistency

Consistency

Collaboration

Collaboration

Efficiency

Efficiency

Cost-savings

Cost-savings

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Ensure consistent user experience across products

A design system ensures a unified and consistent user experience across all products and platforms. It allows multiple teams to work with a common set of design elements and guidelines, reducing discrepancies and maintaining brand integrity.

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Overcome inefficiencies in design and development processes

Without a design system, teams often recreate similar components, leading to duplicated efforts and wasted resources. A design system streamlines these processes by providing reusable components and templates, improving collaboration and speeding up development.

With a headless CMS, frontend developers can implement and roll out new features independently from the backend. This separation allows for quicker updates and reduces the impact on overall system operations, significantly speeding up time-to-market for new features

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Scaling and maintaining quality

As organisations grow and introduce new features, maintaining quality and consistency becomes challenging. A design system provides a scalable framework that supports growth while ensuring that all new features adhere to established design standards, thus maintaining high quality across the board.

As organisations grow and introduce new features, maintaining quality and consistency becomes challenging. A design system provides a scalable framework that supports growth while ensuring that all new features adhere to established design standards, thus maintaining high quality across the board.


Challenges customers are often facing before considering creating a Design System

CASE STUDY

APM Terminals

Our work with APM Terminals involved creating a design system that ensures consistency and quality across their digital platform, supporting over 80 shipping terminals worldwide. This system enables APM Terminals' teams to efficiently develop and deploy features, maintaining a unified user experience across all terminals and services, thus enhancing global operational efficiency​.

Evolving platform

The website began as a marketing tool for 80+ terminals, but as APM Terminals expanded its digital tools and services, the need for a cohesive Design System became evident.

Design System creation

Codehouse standardised design elements and coded components to ensure a consistent and efficient user experience across APM Terminals' extensive digital offerings.

Outcomes

The new design system has streamlined development processes, enabling faster feature deployment and maintaining high-quality across the multiple product teams, delivering consistent brand and user experiences across all 80+ global terminals.

23.07.2024

11:00 - 12:00 BST

Design Systems for digital consistency

Design Systems for digital consistency

Design Systems for digital consistency

Design Systems for digital consistency

Learn how a Design System enhances digital consistency and efficiency, enabling faster development and improved user experiences. Discover the benefits and implementation strategies from experts.

Agenda

Introduction

Shaun Miller

5 minutes

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11:00 AM - 11:05 AM

From Style Guide to Design Systems: A timeline

Mehmud Ali

10 minutes

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11:05 AM - 11:10 AM

Introduction to Design Systems

Mehmud Ali

15 minutes

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11:10 AM - 11:20 AM

Advantages and challenges of creating and managing a Design System

Mehmud Ali

10 minutes

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11:20 AM - 11:30 AM

Design System demo: starting from scratch

Rory Geraghty

15 minutes

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11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

A real-life case-study APM Terminals

Rory Geraghty

15 minutes

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11:50 AM - 11:55 AM

Q&A

Shaun Miller

5 minutes

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11:55 AM - 12:00 PM

Speakers

Mehmud Ali

Head of Design
Codehouse

Shaun Miller

Head of Growth
Codehouse

Rory Geraghty

Lead Designer
Codehouse

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James Mayhew

Commercial Director
Codehouse

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