Course details
Design System
Learn what a design system is, who builds it and the words its makers use. Then start one for a real product: choose a route, audit what already exists, and write the vision, voice and first components every team will share.
Course curriculum
Understand the Basics5 lessons
Meet design systems as shared decisions, reusable parts and rules. See why companies with several teams need one, how a system differs from a component library, how atomic design breaks an interface into pieces, and who has to be involved.
Terminology5 lessons
Learn the vocabulary precisely: components and component libraries, design tokens and their tiers, patterns and guidelines, design language and UI kits, and the governance that decides how the system changes.
Making a Design System3 lessons
Compare building a system from scratch with distilling one from an existing product, then prove it on one real product with a pilot before asking every team to adopt it.
Existing Design Analysis5 lessons
Run a visual audit, learn how the current design process and past experiments shaped the product, then consolidate colour, typography, spacing and sizing into small scales that pass accessibility checks and work in every language.
Creating Design Language5 lessons
Write a vision and principles that settle arguments, a voice that adapts its tone to the moment, and writing rules with a product glossary. Then apply the language to buttons, badges and banners.