Design · Stockholm

Mara Lindqvist

Design director · systems

Mara teaches design the way a design system runs: small parts, written rules, and notes on your own work every week.

Teaches in English
On Waypoint since February 2025

Verified Jan 6, 2025

Product design foundationsNov 2 · 9 seats left

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4.7

10,420 ratings

86,410

learners in 5 courses

About Mara

Mara has spent 15 years in product design

Mara runs the design system eleven product teams use, and it halved their time from sketch to screen. She spent four years at a digital agency and five on a banking app before that.

Now

Design director

A software company, since 2020

Before

Product designerA banking app2015–2020
DesignerA digital agency2011–2015

Checked by Waypoint

10days, four checks

IdentityDec 27, 2024
We matched a national ID card over video
Current roleDec 31
Her employer confirmed the role
Work sampleJan 3, 2025
Two designers reviewed her design system
Sample lessonJan 6
Twenty learners rated it 4.8

Sample lesson

10 min

“Design tokens”

Rating from twenty learners

4.8 out of 5

Lesson one is freeProduct design foundations

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Courses

What Mara teaches

Five courses and 86,410 learners so far. Mara teaches all five in English, with subtitles in 8 to 28 languages.

Bestseller
DesignBeginner
Product design foundations
Fieldhouse DesignProfessional Certificate
Rated 4.8(4,110 reviews)31,200 learners
- 10 weeks
- 6 h a week
- 21 lessons
- Subtitles in 28 languages
$119
DesignBeginner
Interface fundamentals
Fieldhouse DesignProfessional Certificate
Rated 4.8(3,870 reviews)27,600 learners
- 9 weeks
- 6 h a week
- 19 lessons
- Subtitles in 26 languages
$109
DesignAdvanced
Design systems in practice
Meridian LabSpecialization
Rated 4.6(1,020 reviews)11,050 learners
- 11 weeks
- 5 h a week
- 22 lessons
- Subtitles in 18 languages
$139
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DesignBeginner
Design research interviews
Fieldhouse DesignGuided Project
Rated 4.6(730 reviews)8,410 learners
- 3 weeks
- 3 h a week
- 10 lessons
- Subtitles in 12 languages
Free
New
DesignIntermediate
Prototyping for engineers
Fieldhouse DesignCourse
Rated 4.4(690 reviews)8,150 learners
- 4 weeks
- 4 h a week
- 12 lessons
- Subtitles in 8 languages
$59

Cohorts

Learn with Mara in a live cohort

Thirty learners start on the same Monday, bring the week's work to a live review with Mara each Thursday, and finish together on a Friday you can see before you book your seat.

Live cohort

Product design foundations

Mon, Nov 2 to Fri, Jan 8, 2027

10 weeks · $119A live review each Thursday

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4.7(10,420 ratings)

What learners say about Mara

By course

Product design foundationsrated 4.8 (4,110)
Interface fundamentalsrated 4.8 (3,870)
Design systems in practicerated 4.6 (1,020)
Design research interviewsrated 4.6 (730)
Prototyping for engineersrated 4.4 (690)

3 weeks ago
“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.”
Lena M.
Product design foundations
4 months ago
“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.”
Esther K.
Product design foundations
4 weeks ago
“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.”
Omar S.
Product design foundations
3 months ago
“My portfolio reviews changed after this course. People asked about my process and research, where they used to ask about fonts.”
Sipho N.
Interface fundamentals
2 months ago
“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.”
Hiro T.
Design research interviews
1 month ago
“I came from print, and this course was the bridge. The exercises use real product screens, which was what I needed to see.”
Kwame A.
Prototyping for engineers