Design Systems

This course is designed for the modern collaborative design teams that want to streamline their workflows and create better designs more efficiently. Design system is a relatively new development in the digital design world, but it is becoming more important every day. We will show you how to establish a highly efficient design system for the type of team and work you do.

About Design Systems

If you work in a design team, things can get messy pretty quickly. Imagine Designer A is tasked to create icon sets; Designer B is assigned to create color palettes; Design C is creating button styles. All of a sudden, we have all kinds of elements going on while all other designers must scramble to get these assets to apply to the design. How do we make sure that this process is streamlined? How do we not create 5 different sets of typography styles when all we need is one? Design system is here to the rescue. But first, we must know how to establish an effective one that works dynamically for our team. This course will teach you just that.
The Full Course Includes

5

Instruction sessions

This means you can schedule 5 instructional sessions with your instructor to go over your assignments, ask questions about course content and receive career coaching.

The Self-Study Option Has

0

Instruction session

This means you don’t have automatic access to instructor sessions due to the lower price but you may purchase sessions as you need for an additional $60 per 1 hr session.

Who Is This For

Working Designers Wanting to Advance In Their Careers

Working designers who are looking to take the next steps in their career by adding design systems skills under their belt and landing more jobs with larger brands would benefit from this course

Design Students Wanting To Add Skills Under Their Belts

If you are design student or aspiring designer who want to add valuable skill sets like design systems under your belt to improve your competitiveness in the job market

Design Team Leaders Looking to Create Design Systems

If you are getting promoted to design team leader and wants to establish a great design system for the team you will be leading, this course will give you the tools to know where to get started

Unit Breakdown

2

Units

18

Lessons

3

Projects

0

Quizzes

Unit 1

How To Design A Design System

In this opening unit, we go into deep dives of all the different components of a design system, from spatial system, to color system, to icon system and so much more. Step by step, you will learn how to establish an effective design system structure for your team.

Unit 2

Learn from World-Famous Design Systems

Design system has been implemented any many world-leading companies. In this unit, we will take a look into the real and complex design systems at some of these companies and learn to apply the things they did well to our own design systems.

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Our Expert Instructors

Our team of instructors are great at what they do and teach well, too

Stephanie Sell

Product Designer

Julia Wolinsky

Principal UX Designer

Celio Pires

Senior Product Designer

Ashley May

Senior Product Designer

Nina Shahriaree

UI/UX & Visual Designer

Silvia Script

Senior UI/UX Designer

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FAQs

We design each individual course with multiple levels in mind. We start each course with introducing the foundation, which provides a much-needed refresher for even the seasoned designers if they have been away from theory for a while.

 

We then go into intermediate to advanced topics for deep dives, where multiple levels of designers might find them helpful.

 

Our goal is to make the course as approachable as possible while still getting into advanced topics for students who are ready to take the leap.

It depends on how much knowledge you already have in each topic. We recommend filling out our email form above to obtain the full syllabus and schedule a call with us if you want to get the full picture of the entire course. We make every effort to recommend the right level of courses to each student so that they get the most out of the learning experience.

Books are great! We will never say don't buy a book. However, design is a highly practical field. Reading books will give you the surface level understanding. You need more examples, interactive demonstrations, exercises and personalized feedback from expert designers to achieve the level that you need for your career. These other components can only be obtained from a well-designed educational program. Books are great supplements for your courses.

YouTube is a great platform. We say go watch as many YouTube videos as you'd like, but we have yet to find a complete series of courses that go in to so much details and depth as our course on YouTube. While YouTube can provide a surface level foundation for you, it isn't likely to help you get to the level you need for your career. We recommend scheduling a call with us if you are interested and ask questions to make your informed decisions.

Absolutely! We believe in learning by doing. That's why we designed exercises for each unit with intention. Students are expected to complete every exercise and quizzes in order to complete the course. This is not a passive learning experience - it's active. We also wrap up each course with a portfolio-level project, so you can be sure to take away with you a polished piece from every course you finish. If you enroll in our School of Design certificate program you will have 3 portfolio projects that stand out from the crowd at the time you graduate and a tailored career strategy that's effective and unique to you.

Yes, we provide discounts for certain courses if they care purchased together. They are usually courses that are related to each other, each time you enroll in a course, you will see which other courses you can enroll in for a discount in the checkout page.

 

If you want to receive a bulk discount for purchasing 3 or more courses, please contact us in the contact page. We can provide a custom discount for you.

It depends on your needs. If you are already working as a designer and would like to uplevel your skillsets, we recommend taking individual courses as you need.

 

If you are a new designer looking to break into the field and get your first job or client as a designer, we recommend our School of Design certificate program - you do not want to show any knowledge gap in your interview and portfolio.

Need to actually launch your career?

This short course is great for up skilling but it is not part of our end-to-end career programs. If you actually want to launch your creative career, receive hands-on career coaching and full portfolio building training, apply to enroll in one of our full career programs.

I need to

Study Design From Scratch

This means you don’t yet have design knowledge or are not confident in your design craft and want to attend an end-to-end training program to start your design career

I need to

Improve On My Portfolio

This means you already are proficient in design but don’t have enough portfolio projects to stand out in the job market and need to build your portfolio, personal brand and career coaching

I need to

Learn
On-Demand

Our on-demand monthly membership program gives you the freedom to access our career program without portfolio coaching so that you can complete the program at your own pace

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