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Design systems in practice
Ship tokens, components and the documentation a team opens before it asks you.
Rated 4.61,020 reviews11,050 learners
Taught by Mara Lindqvist, verified instructorDesign director · systems · Meridian Lab- Length
- 11 weeks at 5 hours a weekAt your own pace, or in a live cohort
- Credential
- Earn a Specialization certificateIssued by Meridian Lab
- Language
- Taught in EnglishWith subtitles in 18 languages
- Tutor
- An AI tutor in every lessonIt answers from the lesson on screen
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About this course
Built for designers who already ship components and now have to look after the system behind them. Over eleven weeks you run a small system for a fictional bank, including the release that breaks one of its products.
Skills you practice
Syllabus
7 modules
Ends on the project
22 lessons
7 to 18 min each
4 h 32 min of video
Pause to ask the tutor
2 free lessons
Watch before you pay
6 quizzes
42 questions in all
1 project
Reviewed by Mara's team
- 1.2Deciding what belongs in the system8 min
- 1.3Names a team will keep using11 min
- Quiz · 8 questions6 min
- 2.2Aliases and semantic layers13 min
- 2.3Theming a second brand18 min
- Quiz · 8 questions9 min
- 3.1Anatomy and states8 min
- 3.2Variants or props9 min
- 3.3Composition over configuration8 min
- 3.4Accessibility built into the base16 min
- Quiz · 6 questions6 min
- 4.1Usage guidelines with a do and a don't8 min
- 4.2Examples people copy7 min
- 4.3Search and a changelog16 min
- Quiz · 6 questions10 min
- 5.1Keeping design files and code in step9 min
- 5.2Component APIs engineers like9 min
- 5.3Visual regression tests18 min
- Quiz · 8 questions8 min
- 6.1Office hours and a request queue15 min
- 6.2Measuring adoption across products14 min
- 6.3Deprecating a component16 min
- Quiz · 6 questions6 min
- 7.1Semantic versions for a design system18 min
- 7.2Migration guides15 min
- 7.3When a release breaks a product8 min
- Project · Ship version 1.0 of a small design system, with its docs7 hours
What the price covers
In the price
- 22 video lessons, 4 h 32 min in all
- The AI tutor beside every lesson
- 6 quizzes, graded as you answer
- A project reviewed by Mara's team
- A Specialization when you finish
- Transcripts in 18 languages
Not in it
- Answers the tutor writes for you
- Live reviews outside a cohort
- One-to-one mentoring
- A job guarantee
Your instructor
Mara Lindqvist, verified instructor
Design director · systems
- Rating
- 4.7
- Learners
- 86.4K
- Courses
- 5
15 years in product design
I run the design system eleven product teams use.
Career highlight
Our system halved the time from sketch to screen.
How Mara teaches
You get notes on your own work every week.
Reviews, rated4.61,020 reviews
Overall rating
- 5 stars, 72% of reviews
- 4 stars, 19% of reviews
- 3 stars, 5% of reviews
- 2 stars, 2% of reviews
- 1 star, 1% of reviews
Lena M.Product designer
3 weeks agoFinished
The weekly critique is the course. Mara's notes on my layouts were blunt and specific, and I could not argue with a single one of them.
Esther K.Service designer
4 months agoFinished
Every assignment came back with notes within three days of handing it in, and the notes were about my screen, with arrows on it. I have paid more for courses whose instructors never looked at my work once. I run service design for a city council now, and I still reread those notes before I lead a critique of my own team's screens on a Monday morning.
Omar S.Junior designer
4 weeks agoFinished
The tutor never says which layout is better. It asks what the reader looks at first, and now I ask that of every screen I make at work.
Sipho N.Design student
3 months agoFinished
My portfolio reviews changed after this course. People asked about my process and research, where they used to ask about fonts.
Hiro T.Front-end developer
2 months agoFinished
I am an engineer, and by week two I could see why my layouts looked off to other people. I will never see spacing the same way again.
Kwame A.Graphic designer
1 month agoFinished
I came from print, and this course was the bridge. The exercises use real product screens, which was what I needed to see.
6 of 1,020 reviews
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What people ask before they enroll
A person answers anything this list does not. Ask us.
That you already do this work day to day. The course spends no time on the basics, and its first module starts where most introductions to the subject leave off, at the part that is hard to learn alone.
Nothing expires. 11 weeks at 5 hours a week is the pace the course was planned at, and at 3 hours it takes 19 weeks. The panel above works out a finish date for whatever pace you give it.
A start date, a finish date and a live review of the week's work every Thursday, with the same 30 people from the first week to the last. The lessons and the tutor are the ones the self-paced track gets.
A certificate from the school that made the course, and the project the instructor's team reviewed. Each comes with a link that anyone, an employer included, can open and check in a few seconds.
Yes, within 30 days of enrolling, from your account page and with no form to fill in or reason to give. Lesson one is free with the tutor, so most people know the course suits them before they pay.
Waypoint Plus is $29 a month and opens this course along with every other. At $139 this one costs about 5 months of it, so buy it on its own if it is the only course you mean to take this year.
Watch lesson one tonight. Decide in the morning.
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