Reward the best design system that set up the right governance for their design system. This could include exemplary contribution models, automation efforts, processes, or anything else you feel would fit within governance.
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 Governance 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, design and engineering organization, your design system model (eg. central, federated, or hybrid), and how many products and/or brands your design system covers. Share details about the challenges the organization faced in creating and maintaining a design system, particularly with regard to governance
2. Solution
Provide detail as to how you approached governance, including your implementation strategy and any success you’ve had.
📚 Approach
Describe your governance approach used in your design system and the reasons why your chose this approach. Describe the choices you made with the design system model you use, and the choices behind the governance areas you are focusing on.
🎨 Governance Details
Give more details about the strategy behind your governance, the structure of your governance team and their roles: team make up, time spent on the design system, etc. Explain how your contribution model works and the different rituals you have set up for your governance (office hours, backlog reviews, etc). If necessary, give detail about the automation you’ve established to help with governance.
💪 Challenges
Describe any challenges faced during the implementation of your governance approach. Explain how those challenges were addressed and overcome. What did you learn from those challenges?
🎯 Impact
Quantify the positive impact your governance approach had on your design system: quotes, key figures, user feedback, etc. Give examples of how the approach increased efficiency and effectiveness.
3. Conclusion
Summarize the key points of your case study and emphasize the value of your governance for your organization
4. Resources
If possible, share a link (zeroheight, Confluence, Notion…) or a file (pdf, ppt…) to give context to your governance 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 governance.
