1 hour
1 Whitehall Quay
Free Tickets Available
Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 10:00 am to 11:00 am (GMT+01:00)
1 Whitehall Quay
1 Whitehall Quay, Leeds, United Kingdom
In this candid and practical talk, we’ll walk through the wrong turns, unexpected hurdles, and hard-earned lessons from our journey of creating a design system while simultaneously building the applications it was meant to support.
From struggling to get stakeholder buy-in, to the chaos of naming design tokens, to the challenge of aligning teams across design and engineering—we’ll share the missteps that slowed us down, the compromises we had to make, and what we’d do differently if we could start over.
This talk is for anyone who’s in the thick of building a design system (or thinking about starting one) and wants to learn from real-world experience—not just the polished case studies. Expect honest stories, practical takeaways, and a few laughs along the way.
At the end of the talk, they’ll be time for questions and refreshments will be available
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Event Location: CGI, 1 Whitehall Quay Leeds LS1 4HR
Refreshments: will be provided, more information to follow.
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