Name: One Design System to Rule Them All – Can You Design for an Entire Sector?
Start: 2026-02-26T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-26T20:00:00+00:00
Location: AND Digital

$One Design System to Rule Them All \u2013 Can You Design for an Entire Sector?$

Explore how the GOV.UK Design System scales across an entire sector, balancing consistency, accessibility, and collaboration.
About this Event

Designing for a single product is challenging enough, but what does it take to design for an entire sector?

Join us for an insightful evening with speakers from Government Digital Service (GDS) as we explore how design systems can scale across organisations, services, and teams while remaining usable, accessible, and human-centred.

🎤 Speakers

Imran Hussain

Community Designer, Government Digital Service

Imran is a community consultant with over 10 years’ experience building communities across different sectors. He believes communities can be a force for good and is passionate about supporting those that have a positive impact on public life.

At GDS, Imran works on creating the right conditions for a thriving community around the GOV.UK Design System, helping teams collaborate, share learning, and design better public services together.

Trang Erskine

Lead Product Manager, GOV.UK Design System – Government Digital Service

Trang leads the product team responsible for building and maintaining the GOV.UK Design System, enabling teams across government to design and develop consistent, usable, and accessible services.

She has a strong interest in systems thinking — understanding complex parts and making them work together as a coherent whole — and will share insights into how product, design, and governance come together at scale.

🔔 Why you shouldn’t miss this

We’re sure many of you have questions you’d love to ask first-hand — from how a design system works at national scale, to how communities, governance, and systems thinking come together in practice.

This evening promises to be thought-provoking, discussion-led, and genuinely insightful. Expect open conversations, plenty of questions, and practical takeaways you can bring back and apply within your own teams and organisations.

You’ll leave not just inspired, but with ideas in your toolkit to adapt to your own sector.

🧠 What to expect

Real-world insights into designing for an entire sector

A closer look at the GOV.UK Design System and how it’s managed at scale

Reflections on community, systems thinking, and collaboration

Time for Q&A and discussion

🍕 There will also be food, drinks, and time to connect with the local UX community.

🙏 Huge thanks to AND Digital for not only hosting us, but for actively supporting community-led learning by providing the space, hospitality, and opportunity for this event to happen.

We’re really looking forward to seeing you there!