Dan Donald

Dan Donald

Design system consultant in Manchester, UK, he/him

Projects

2023

It's an open forum where the audience chooses the topic(s) and shares their experiences so we can all help each other with Ben Callahan from Sparkbox and I guiding the conversation.

2023

A lighthearted podcast around people's design system journeys by Dan Cork and Dan Donald

Side Projects

2021

3-piece noisy alt-rock band from 2010-2021

2015

For 5 years with my collaborators Simon Owen and Jack Sheppard,
with the support of Manchester Digital, we ran UpFront Conf in Manchester. Aimed at anyone that creates for the web, we always aimed to have diverse line-ups and give new opportunities a chance to speak

Speaking

2022
London

As a design system matures, we come across new concepts that help us make it better. There’s new requirements that come along, design changes we couldn’t anticipate. Design systems support consistency but also vehicles for communication and change. Here we look at how you can introduce design tokens considering theming and really bring out the power of what your system can be.

Writing

2022

The world of design systems can be overwhelming sometimes. There’s a lot to take in when you get into that space! In this article, Dan Donald dives into a simple component and explores some issues, complexity, and power we can encounter.

Work Experience

2022 — Now

Helping the design community to keep improving with design systems as part of the Content & Community team here at zeroheight. That can be writing articles/blog posts, putting on events or speaking at them, listening to the community, and helping find solutions to enable teams of all sizes to create great systems that work for their organisations.

Education

2002 — 2006
Liverpool

This was a pretty broad course covering computer science fundamentals like development process and machine code, logic & data structures through to multimedia production and web development.

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