Session: Lessons from DELL's Design Library: Getting 7 Million Pages on the Same Page.
Speaker: Jonathan Atkins
Speaker: Jim Machajewski
Speaker: Bill Harrison
Speaker: Ashley Eaton
Track: Design
Day: Friday, June 1st, 2012
Time: 10:00am
Length: 1 hour
The Dell Design Library is run by Global Site Design (GSD), Dell’s internal interactive design group. GSD is responsible for the complete transformation of Dell.com’s user experience and design across the site’s roughly 7,000,000 pages globally. Rebuilding a site on such a massive scale requires that you start with a firm foundation, so GSD created a modular design system consisting of a relatively small number of parts and templates that can be rearranged almost infinitely to build any desired webpage. These parts and templates, along with the instructions for using them, are housed in Dell’s custom built, publicly available, design library.
Join members of Dell’s Global Site Design team in a frank discussion about the highs and lows of building out a design library. The team will detail out how and why they built the library and give real world examples about what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t.
What You Will Learn:
- How to build a design library.
- How to scale a design system across a HUGE enterprise.
- What makes a good design library.
- How a library saves time and resources.
- How a design library supports a global team.
- Questions and Answers with the people who created and maintain the library.
