Short course | Beginner friendly | Live online | Lecturer-led | 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
30 November 2026 – 09 December 2026
Price, starting at
Build the foundation for consistent, scalable design
Design systems let design teams move fast without breaking things. They are a shared library of components, patterns, tokens and documentation that keeps every surface of a product consistent. In this course you will learn the principles of design systems, from atomic design thinking to component libraries, design tokens and the governance that keeps a system alive and useful over time. You will work hands-on in Figma, building components with variants, auto layout and documentation annotations that designers and developers can rely on. In Week 2 you will learn how to maintain and evolve a design system, including deprecation, contribution models and stakeholder alignment. You will leave with a Certificate of Completion from the Academy of Digital Arts and a design system project that shows you can build scalable, documented design infrastructure.
What you will 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 Thursdays 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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Learn Design Systems live, with your lecturer
Small live classes, a lecturer who works in the industry and project work for your portfolio. Pick your date and book your seat.
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