Design Systems Day 2020

Marius Røstad - Head of Digital Products

Marius Røstad will in his opening keynote discuss the challenges Ruter has gone through recently and how design systems can help in solving such challenges; from working with more traditional methods and tools to more effective ones, where the services are expected to be at the standard of the very best solutions in the world, and meet the needs of the customers – at all time.

Christian Nordström - Design Manager at Ruter

Christian’s talk emphasizes how design system is essential to support inclusive design in the development of digital and physical services and products at Ruter. In his talk, Christian will show examples of how Ruter has developed and made guidelines and components available, and how communication is an essential part of the work.

Alex  Skougarevskaya - Senior Design Manager, Atlassian

Design systems are hard. They’re messy and complicated - No one has it figured out and we’re still all learning from each other.’ After working on Atlassian’s design systems for five years, Alex Skougarevskaya will talk about the less than linear evolution of their design system and the lessons she learned on the way. She’ll cover the current state of their design system, who creates it and how it evolved from a project to a ‘product for products’ to what it is today - a service enabling Atlassian’s to build cohesive product experiences that unleash the potential of every team. From Alex - expect honesty and passion, and if nothing else you’ll hopefully feel better about the mess your own design system is (probably) in and have a few laughs along the way.

Alexander Vassbotn   Røyne-Helgesen - Frontend developer at Bekk

Today, more and more development is done in tight relation with designers and UX-designers, triggering the need for a design system that is tightly coupled with both design and code.

Until recently, communication has gone one way, from the designers to the developers. This talk covers the process that we developed to ensure that the conversation around a design system runs in both directions, between design and development.

We will cover generation of preprocessor styles with design tokens, generating Sketch files for the designers and how we generate our design systems continuously. We will also discuss the value that If has gained from adopting design systems, explain how we create clear and understandable documentation, give examples of how we prioritize the needs of the end-users and the design systems users, and show how we keep our designs and our code accessible.

Erik  Ferrier - Head of Design at Tidal

How do we deliver complex digital solutions or large marketing campaigns with small teams in a culture of short deadlines, last-minute changes, multiple stakeholders, and high secrecy? How do we enable team members to be independent and proactive while ensuring Brand consistency? How do we collaborate in an around the clock design operation in different time zones?

This talk explores the journey of creating and implementing Design System(s) at TIDAL and how it was applied to such a variety of media and products, from the redesign of tidal.com and sign up to in-app content as playlist covers.

Kjetil  Nordby - Head of Ocean Industries Concept Lab at AHO

Maritime workplaces are assembled by systems delivered by a large number of vendors with little coordination of user experience. We present the OpenBridge Design system that make it possible to harmonize design across systems and vendors. We will present some of the challenges working in the maritime domain and our approach to solving them.

Christian Rørholt  Moe - Chief Digital Officer at Gjensidige

Torstein Aas-Hansen - Concept Developer at Gjensidige

Robin Klein  Schiphorst - DesignOps Coach at Arrivals & Strategic Director at Idean

Enterprise-level design systems are hard, complicated, and will probably give you a grey hair or two. They usually involve multiple companies, brands, products, platforms, and every user group you can imagine. You will have to align and facilitate change among leadership, business, marketing, brand, product teams for digital and analog, and more. Things look big, real big, so we need to break them down into manageable bites. Robin will share his philosophy and a method called ThreeTimes, from his playbook to help you get started. He worked on projects with Schibsted / Aftenposten Norway's first algorithm that designs, and with Laerdal on Life a multi-level design system and many more.

Bernard  Tømmerbakke - Lead Designer at Oslo kommune

Med over 50 000 ansatte fordelt på over 50 virksomheter er Oslo kommune blant landets største arbeidsgivere. Økt satsing på digitalisering, ny kommunikasjonsstrategi og visuell identitet har satt fokus på behovet for å etablere felles verktøy og metodikk for alle som skal designe og utvikle digitale tjenester. Med utgangspunkt i kommunens nettsider arbeider vi sentralt med å utvikle et bærekraftig designsystem som skal skalere på tvers av kommunens digitale økosystem. Arbeidet er helt i startfasen, men allikevel har vi gjort oss nyttige erfaringer knyttet til de utfordringene det er å skape helhet og samhandling på tvers av en kompleks og silobasert organisasjon bestående av ulike digitale fagmiljøer og løsninger.

Peter Merholz - Design executive and organizational consultant