Reward the best conference, webinar or meetup talk about design systems, that helped the design system community by sharing inspiring and helpful content.

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Criteria for Submission

  • Having presented this talk at at least one event
  • The talk must be about a design system topic; it cannot be a talk about something else other than design system area (it can’t be about UX research for example)
  • The talk shouldn’t promote a tool, a solution or a service. It’s about solving design system problems or sharing experiences about design systems.
  • Being able to share one oral presentation video (+ slides, but optional)
  • The talk was an original talk (ie. not delivering somebody else’s content)
  • The talk needs to have been delivered since January 1, 2024
  • The talk does not need to belong to the submitter. It can be nominated by a user or member of the community

Best Talk nominations are now closed

The nominations are now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted their entries! We will be announcing the shortlist on Monday, September 15th and opening public voting at that time. Good luck to everyone!

Timeline

  1. Nominations will be open from Tuesday 13 May. If you have any questions about the nomination process, then check out the FAQs, or if your question isn't answered, please get in touch at community@zeroheight.com

    13 May, 2025

  2. Once the nominations are closed, we'll be collating the longlist and working through it to determine a shortlist. The shortlist will be determined by the team at zeroheight, and will be based on uniform judging criteria (which we will share in a month or two). With the shortlist creation, we aim to remove as much bias as possible and give everyone a fair chance across the board.

    22 August, 2025

  3. In September, the shortlist will be announced, including public voting! We'll notify all folks as to whether they made the shortlist. The judges will then individually judge each shortlisted entry. We'll also have public voting on each category live on the site!

    15 September, 2025

  4. Once all the judges and public votes are counted, we'll then be able to determine the winner for each category, based off a weighted compilation of votes.

    3 November, 2025

  5. In December, we'll gather the community together at an event in London to announce the winners live.

    December 10, 2025

Past Winners