Design System Courses
Our online Design Systems courses generally are planned over a few half days, to give you the same experience and access to experts that you would have in an in-person CSS workshop.
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With our online Design Systems courses however, you can learn from your own desk or couch, and take them either live (real-time) or watch the video course at your own leisure, as all video recordings are included.
Practical and interactive courses
Our online courses use a lot of practical examples and interactive exercises. If you are watching live, you can ask questions during Q&A, and of course you can use the online course recordings and materials to study Design Systems at your own pace, at your own time.
Courses on various Design Systems topics
We offer many online Design Systems courses at various levels, covering a wide range of Design Systems topics, from Creating and Maintaining Design Systems to Making Design Systems People Want To Use. Please check our upcoming (live) courses, and see what Design Systems courses we have offered in the past, if you want to be notified of new live offerings.
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Brad Frost
Advanced Design Systems
with Brad Frost
Workshop, 4×2h + Q&A • Tue & Wed, November 12–20 2024
09:00 – 11:30 AM PT • 18:00 – 20:30 CET • Check your time zone ⏰
By this point, most organizations are far along enough in their design system journey to understand that the mere existence of a component library (even if it’s a good one!) isn’t enough to guarantee design system success.
The devil’s in the details, and those details require the careful orchestration of people, processes, and technologies. If you’re looking to take your design system efforts from good to great, this workshop is for you. -
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Christine Vallaure
Figma Workflow Masterclass
with Christine Vallaure
Workshop, 5×2.5h + Q&A • Wed, Thu & Fri, November 13–22 2024
09:00 – 11:30 AM PT • 18:00 – 20:30 CET • Check your time zone ⏰
Do you have some (Figma) design skills, but are not an expert yet? Like to be able to design better responsively? Want to find out about new features like variables and dev mode and generally feel like you could optimize your Figma workflow? This Figma Masterclass is just right for you!
In this course, we will learn how to push your design from a pretty picture to a working and scalable UI, embracing all of Figma’s impressive features. -
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Nathan Curtis
Design Token and UI Component Architecture
with Nathan Curtis
Workshop, 4×2h + Q&A • Thu & Fri, February 20–28 2025
09:00 – 11:00 AM PT • 18:00 – 20:00 CET • Check your time zone ⏰
Design systems are expanding in organizations, spreading design and code tools and influencing decision-making across product teams. With such scale, you must establish and share an architecture of style and UI components across design and code that endures and evolves over time.
This workshop exposes you to essential foundations of design system architecture — the kinds of naming, composition, configuration and process challenges involved — to equip you with techniques and activities to make, spread, and maintain a system yourself. -
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Nathan Curtis
Design System Planning and Process
with Nathan Curtis
Workshop, 4×2h + Q&A • Thu & Fri, March 20–28 2025
09:00 – 11:00 AM PT • 18:00 – 20:00 CET • Check your time zone ⏰
Managing an effective design system requires that it fit smoothly into how an organization makes and delivers digital experiences. Yet, it must also embrace unique and usually more robust processes to deliver high-quality foundations, components, and other features that other teams trust to reuse.
This workshop exposes you to scope, plan and run processes to make features, deliver releases, tackle complex initiatives, and guide an organization through a major new generation of an entire library. These processes create the foundation by which a system can pursue its vision, realize its strategy, evolve teams and practices, and create lasting value for an organization.
