How can we get more Design System centric learnings from Design System Day and other events

[kellylee-gds]

Brief

Design System Day and our other events have had a hugely positive impact on our engagement levels with the wider community.

However we believe there is unexplored potential in these events to learn more from our users which can help inform our decision making and prioritisation. Whilst attendance of our events is fairly high, we rarely get insights or learnings that are useful for the Design System specifically.

In this brief, you should collaborate with the team to explore how we can better use Design System Day and other events to learn about our users.

You'll need to consider;

• what does the team want to learn about / discover
• how does this impact who is invited to our events
• how does this change how we communicate about our events

By the end of the cycle you should have a backlog of explorations the team would like to run at this year's Design System Day events and other community events we may run (eg the monthly calls). These should be prioritised in collaboration with the team with a view to run 1-2 sessions at the first Design System Day event.

Epic lead

Imran

Driving role(s)

Community Designer, Associate Delivery Manager

• bring the team together to ideate
• lead discussions on prioritisation
• make a plan for how these explorations will be delivered
• work with the team to plan workshops for anything prioritised for the first DSDay24 event
• ensure this is visible to the wider team

Done when

Tasks

Beta Give feedback

1. Set up a session with the team #3749
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2. Plan and prepare what we want to discuss in the sessions (aim to get the team to express how they would do this) #3750
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3. Create an asynchronous way for the team to contribute if they miss the session #3751
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4. Analyse recommendations from the team #3752
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5. Agree how we'll follow up on what's recommended by the team with team leads #3753
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6. Build a plan on how we deliver the sessions across our community events #3754
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7. Decide cadence for future insights #3755
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[kellylee-gds]

Just fyi - @mia-allers-gds isn't expected to work on this brief. She will continue the branding work alongside this work.

[Kam-Nijjar]

The team leads session is booked for Wednesday 2pm 1st May 2024

[Kam-Nijjar]

The team session placeholder is booked for 3pm Thursday 2 May 2024

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Padlet board(https://govukdesignsystem.padlet.org/ImHuYorks/what-do-we-need-to-learn-from-our-users-at-community-events-9ecxkch2iih4rf8l

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Scoring matrix
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SlQ2adslJVyw5RSchiAqrTe3Jkh5y_T0cbgk8lCvxuc/edit#gid=0