Digitalks: Creating A Human-Centred Design System That People Love To Use

Human Centred Design has made its way into the hearts and minds of many leading organisations. But when it comes to design systems, delivery teams often aren’t included in the creation of the system they’re supposed to adopt.

In our on-demand 60-minute Digitalks webinar, Hamish O’Neill, Head of Design Systems at carsales.com.au (previously Design Lead at ANZ) and Jonathan Stening, Engineering Lead for ANZ’s enterprise Brand & Design System share their journey in creating a community-driven design system using HCD methodologies.

They covered how they:

Built a design system around the needs of those using it
Run their design system team
Continue to drive adoption and contribution after two years
Measure and show value for business leaders
Use their design system to unlock creativity

Feedback we received:

“Now this one had me glued to my screen, really valuable!”
“They had great energy and were willing to take on the hard questions.”
“Interactive, useful information.”
“A great talk and definitely gave me a lot to reflect and think about.”
“Great talk, learnt so much!”
“Brilliant session and thanks to Hamish O'Neill, Jonathan Stening for the fascinating discussion.”

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About the author

Hamish O’Neill is the Head of Design Systems at carsales.com.au. He was previously the Design Lead at ANZ. Hamish has over 17 years of experience in digital design across retail, telecommunications, and finance industries. He is a strategic design thinker and leader who loves to systemise and automate process and help teams do compelling work, fast. Jonathan Stening is the Engineering Lead for ANZ and describes himself as the conduit between design and technology disciplines. He has first-hand experience with numerous disciplines including print, graphic and website UX/UI design, front and back-end development, CMS integration and creative technology. He also has exposure to marketing/sales, business management and client interaction. Jonathan is a specialist ‘Front-of-the-frontend Developer’ with strong HTML, CSS, JavaScript/React skills and an in-depth understanding of Design systems, Agile methodology, digital accessibility, atomic design, responsive best-practice and SEO.