Advanced Design Systems

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- Brad Frost
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- 🍵 Tea, coffee, snacks, and drinks available all day
- 🥪 Delicious lunch included
Workshop includes:
Full-day workshop • Friday, September 5, 2025.
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.
Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:
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Inspiring & Inclusive
A full day of teaching in a friendly, inclusive group
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Interactive
Plenty of time for practice & feedback
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Practical insights
From design/technical architecture to human processes
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Cooperate
Learn from your teacher and other attendees
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Dedicated Q&A time
To ask all your questions
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Digital Smashing Certificate
A well-deserved reward for your work
599.00
Excl. VAT
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This workshop is for experienced design system practitioners who know the basics inside and out, and are looking to dive deep into the architectural details and processes that truly make or break a design system effort.
These sessions will cover the comprehensive design system ecosystem, advanced design token architecture for multi-brand design systems, component architecture best practices, adoption strategies, team structure optimization, governance frameworks, and effective communication practices.
In This Workshop, You’ll Learn:
- How to architect a design system ecosystem that’s tuned to your organization’s specific needs and goals
- The art of creating and governing design system recipes, which help product teams assemble design system assets into product-specific compositions
- The nuances of creating and managing multi-brand and multi-product design systems
- Advanced design token architecture, naming conventions, process, and best practices
- Component API design naming conventions, processes, and best practices for Figma and code
- UI component construction and composability best practices for Figma and code
- How to craft design systems that provide helpful structure without being overly rigid
- Best practices for design system team structure, roles, and position within your organization
- How to get your design system adopted by products so that real business-critical software is powered by your design system
- Best practices for governance, contribution, and release processes to clarify how teams should wield, extend, bend, and even break the system.
- Communication and relationship best practices to ensure the long-term health of the design system and the digital products it serves.
Why You Should Attend?
By attending this workshop, you will:
- advance your design system skills and knowledge to an expert level
- ensure your design system architecture can seamlessly support multiple brands, products, and evolving business needs
- master what goes into creating comprehensive end-to-end design systems
- gain actionable insights and proven techniques to implement in your organization, backed by Brad's extensive experience working with dozens of Fortune 100 companies
- be better equipped to collaborate effectively with other disciplines and cross-functional teams
- network with like-minded peers and professionals facing similar challenges
- learn directly from one of the industry's most respected pioneers and thought leaders
About Brad Frost
Brad Frost is the inventor of Atomic Design and is a design system consultant, front-end developer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. As a principal and design system consultant at Big Medium, he’s helped 10% of the Fortune 100 establish and evolve their enterprise design systems. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems.
He co-hosted the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, Style Guide Guide, This Is Responsive, Death to Bullshit, and more.
Location
Situated in a bustling area of central Antwerp, our workshop location Vestar offers professional and sustainable meeting spaces. Their workshop rooms are bright, modern, and designed for optimal learning, and they’ll provide delightful refreshments and lunch throughout the day.
Time
This full-day workshop will take place at Vestar. The workshop will be running from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Friday. September 5.
Schedule for Friday. September 5
9:00 AM – Doors open, Registration
9:30 AM – Introduction & Kick-off
11:00 AM – Coffee Break
1:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Afternoon Session
3:30 PM – Coffee Break
5:30 PM – The End
Save EUR 200 when signing up for two workshops!
599.00
Excl. VAT
🎪 Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.