Short course | Beginner friendly | Online/On-campus | Lecturer Driven | Practical
Design Systems
A design system is the single source of truth that keeps products consistent, scalable, and on-brand across every team and platform. This hands-on 2-week course teaches you how to build, document, and maintain a design system in Figma, guided by an industry-experienced lecturer.
What you'll learn?
Design Systems
Duration
2 weeks
Next course
05 October 2026 – 14 October 2026
Price, starting at
Build the foundation for consistent, scalable design
Design systems are what allow design teams to move fast without breaking things — a shared library of components, patterns, tokens, and documentation that ensures consistency across every surface of a product. In this course you'll learn the principles of design systems, from atomic design thinking through to component libraries, design tokens, and the governance structures that keep a system alive and useful over time. You'll work hands-on in Figma, building components with variants, auto layout, and documentation annotations that both designers and developers can rely on. In Week 2 you'll learn how to maintain and evolve a design system, handling deprecation, contribution models, and stakeholder alignment. You'll leave with a Certificate of Completion from the Academy of Digital Arts and a design system project demonstrating your ability to build scalable, documented design infrastructure.
What you'll learn
In this course you will learn the following skills:
- What is a design system and why it matters
- Atomic design principles and UI components
- Accessibility standards and responsive design
- Colour tokens, typography rules and icon systems
- Style guides and documentation for dev handoff
- Figma libraries and team file organisation
- Case studies: Google Material Design, Shopify Polaris
How it works
The course runs Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 pm to 8 pm. On Tuesdays there will be a check-in session with the lecturer.
Over the runtime of the course you will learn everything from scratch while being instructed by a lecturer.
After the course is finished you will receive a Certificate of Completion.
You will have your project work as part of your portfolio.
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