Reward the design system that has succeeded in setting up adoption with the design system’s consumers. From strategy through to implementation and measurement, the winning design system should be seen as an exemplar of good design system adoption practices.
Criteria for Submission
- Serves a design system that caters to at least designers and engineers (eg. a UI Library by itself won’t cut it)
- Having it be accessible and usable by design system consumers (ie. you need to have launched it!)
- An active design system that has been updated at least once in the previous 6 months
- The design system must belong to the submitter; it cannot belong to another company or person
Best Adoption Submission Process
To submit for this category, please provide a case study of your design system documentation. Read through the criteria below, and then hit the button to submit via a Typeform. You'll have the option to either fill in the form, or upload a case study document in PDF or Doc format.
1. Introduction
Start by introducing your organization and the design system you have created. Include a glimpse of the goals and principles of your design system. Explain context around your design system users: how big is the design system team, product organization, and how many products and/or brands your design system covers. Describe your design system challenge or problem face by your organization and explain how adoption was identified as a key issue in this challenge/problem.
2. Solution
Explain how your organization approached the creation of the design system and how adoption was integrated into how you built your design system.
📚 Adoption Strategy
Describe the adoption strategy that the organization developed for the design system. Explain the methods and techniques used to promote adoption. This could include communication, community building, tools, processes, and measurement.
🎨 Implementation
Detail how the adoption strategy was implemented and integrated into the organization, and how the adoption process has evolved over time to adapt to changing needs and challenges. Provide examples of how the adoption process was used to onboard stakeholders and encourage consistent use of the design system
⌨️ Adoption results
Summarize the impact that the adoption strategy has had on the design system and the organization as a whole. Describe how the adoption process has enabled collaboration and communication between different teams and stakeholders. If you can, provide evidence of increased adoption rates and improved consistency in design work, including both measurement and how you communicated success to stakeholders.
Explain how the organization has learned from the experience of promoting adoption of the design system. Provide recommendations for other organizations looking to improve adoption of their own design systems. Include any supporting materials, such as visuals or data, to further illustrate the adoption strategy and its impact.
3. Conclusion
Summarize the key points of the case study and emphasize the importance of effective adoption strategies in design systems. Reiterate why the design system and its adoption strategy should be considered for the best adoption category in the design systems awards competition.
4. Resources
If possible, share a link (zeroheight, confluence, notion…) or a file (pdf, ppt…) to give context to your adoption strategy, whether that be sample pages, a link to your whole documentation, supporting data and data visualization, or feedback within your organization of the success of your adoption efforts.
