Reward a person who has contributed and helped the design system community to raise their knowledge, awareness and skills. This is an opportunity to shout out someone who you feel doesn’t get the recognition they deserve, and is integral to our community growing.

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Criteria for Submission

  • The person needs to be an active member of the design system community, with evidence of their participation in events, community groups, online activity or writing
  • The person needs to have been active in the design system community since January 1, 2024
  • You can nominate somebody else for this award. Similarly, you could nominate yourself for this award.

Community Champion 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