Design Systems in Practice

Overview

Learn how to create a design system from audit to adoption. You will define tokens, build accessible components, write documentation people read, and set up contribution workflows that keep the system healthy as your organisation grows.

Level

Advanced

Language

English

Updated

Jul 2026

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2 lessons

What you'll learn

• Audit an existing product to find inconsistencies and system opportunities
• Define a scalable token architecture with primitives, semantics and components
• Build accessible, well-documented components with variants and states
• Establish contribution, versioning and deprecation workflows
• Measure adoption and communicate the value of the system to leadership

Curriculum

Requirements

• Solid Figma skills including auto layout and variants
• Experience working on at least one shipped digital product
• Basic understanding of how front-end components are built

Skills you'll build

Completing this course raises these proficiencies in your skill profile.

Your instructor

Laura Fisher

Design Systems Lead, Northfield Digital

Lena builds and scales design systems for teams of 5 to 500. She has shipped component libraries used by more than forty product squads and speaks regularly about token architecture and governance. She believes a system succeeds when people forget they are using one.

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