Patterns Day 2: June 28th, 2019

Surprise! Patterns Day is back!

The first Patterns Day was in the Summer of 2017, and it was a glorious—a single day devoted to all things design system-y: pattern libraries, style guides, maintainability, reusability. It was a lot of fun, so let’s do it again!

Patterns Day 2 will take place on Friday, June 28th, in the beautiful Duke of York’s cinema in Brighton. If you went to the first Patterns Day, then you’ll know how luxuriously comfy it is in there.

Tickets are £175+VAT. The format will likely be the same as before: an action-packed day of eight talks, each 30 minutes long.

I’ve got an amazing line-up of speakers, but instead of telling you the whole line-up straightaway, I’m going to tease a little bit, and announce more speakers over the next few weeks and months. For now, here are the first three speakers, to give you an idea of the quality you can expect:

  • All the way from the US of A, it’s Una Kravets, who needs no introduction.
  • From the Government Digital Service, we’ve got Amy Hupe—she’ll have plenty to share about the GOV.UK design system.
  • And we’ve got Yaili, now a senior designer at Microsoft, where she works on the Azure DevOps design system.

Patterns Day will have something for everyone. We’ll be covering design, development, content strategy, product management, and accessibility. So you might want to make this a one-day outing for your whole team.

If you want to get a feel for what the day will be like, you can watch the videos of last year’s talks

Tickets for last year’s Patterns Day went fairly fast—the Duke of York’s doesn’t have a huge capacity—so don’t dilly-dally too long before grabbing your ticket!

Have you published a response to this? :

Responses

Jaz

Missed this last time so very excited to make it to this one 🙌

# Posted by Jaz on Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at 3:13pm

Dan Edwards ✨

Interested in design systems, pattern libraries, style guides, and components? Want to go to Brighton and be with nice people for a day? Check out Patterns Day! 👇

Joschi Kuphal 吉

I’m in! What about you? Haven’t been in Brighton for 2 years, there couldn’t be a better excuse. 😉

s-al

do you know anything on design patterns for augmented reality (AR for headsets such as Hololens)?

# Posted by s-al on Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at 4:52pm

Will Gibson

What exactly (or roughly) is it? The last handful of words made me laugh, but Brighton and a day off getting paid is a long journey. I need more info to swing it.

# Posted by Will Gibson on Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at 8:46pm

Jeremy Keith

“A one-day event for designers and developers focused on design systems, pattern libraries, style guides, and components.”

Kate Portman

I just saw this and immediately went to tweet you to say please, please, please, please, please can we go!

Will Gibson

That sounds like fun. And my work tomorrow includes some setting some things running then waiting to see if it worked. So maybe some video on the other monitor will be tomorrow’s specials.

# Posted by Will Gibson on Thursday, February 28th, 2019 at 9:01pm

Jeremy Keith

Brighton welcomes the honourable delegation from Norwich!

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