Design Systems Course for Product Teams

Intro to Design Systems

In this first design systems presentation, you will learn how to build design systems with proper design system documentation. This will allow you to scale your product more effectively. You will also learn about the design system tools and best practices for successful planning and implementation.

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What you will learn

• What are design systems?
• Do you need a design system?
• Design system checklist
• Setting up your system
• Naming conventions
• and more

Design Systems Management and Documentation

Learn how to properly manage design systems so you can adapt to product changes and keep your projects organized for everyone on your team. Billy, Head of Design at Headway, will go through tips and tricks, share design systems examples, and the best practices that have helped us manage our design systems and projects at Headway.

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What you will learn

• Tracking and implementing new design requests
• Best practices for version control
• Managing documentation, updates, and your team with changes
• See design systems examples
• and more

Design Systems Promotion and Product Team Communication

Keep your entire team on the same page. High performing product teams develop a design system process to build effective communication and keep all teams aware of what items are being added to the system.

Billy Sweetman, Head of Design at Headway will share tips to establishing effective promotion of components in a design system, as well as best practices to keep your designers and developers working together seamlessly.

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What you will learn

• Learn how to create a better system of communication
• Who needs to be updated and how often
• Improve collaboration between design and development
• Tools you can use to share design system updates