Design Systems: Core
The heart of design systems. Build foundational knowledge from these recorded sessions. AI-driven workflows are introduced.
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Your UI doesn't hold together, and a live class doesn't fit your week.
Buttons that are four different blues. Spacing that changes screen to screen. A component that means one thing on the dashboard and something else on the settings page. Every product looks like this before it has a system, and most never get one, because building it looks like a project nobody has time to start.
The live cohorts fix this in seven weeks, twice a week, at a set time, and that works if your calendar allows it. Tokens, components, and system thinking don't expire while you wait for it to.
Core is the same traditional foundation, recorded from previous cohorts, so you build it on your own clock: tokens, naming, atomic components, an audit habit, a roadmap, and a v1.0.0 release.
Module by module
How design systems actually work
- Session 1: Introduction to Design Systems
- Session 2: Making the Most of Established Design Systems
People and Process
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- Session 1: Onboarding Your Dream Team
- Session 2: The Essence of Process and Project Management
Build the Backbone of Your System
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- Session 1: Your Design System Ecosystem
- Session 2: Auditing UI Chaos & Synthesizing Clarity
Collaborate and Communicate
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- Session 1: Creating Synergy with Front-End Developers
- Session 2: Planning Your Design Systems Roadmap
Design tokens: the layer that makes your system hold
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- Session 1: Introduction to Design Tokens and Naming Convention Guide
- Session 2: Implementing Design Tokens: From Theory to Practice
Bring Your Design System to Life
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- Session 1: Create Efficient and Scalable Components
- Session 2: Release Your System V1.0.0 + Final Group Project Kickoff
Ship your v1.0.0, earn the certificate.
Core ends the same way the live cohorts do: you release your own system v1.0.0, the project every module has been building toward.
Submit it in Google Classroom. We review every submission by hand, and you get the TPS certificate for Design Systems: Core on a pass.
has completed Design Systems: Core
By the end of 7 modules, you can:
A design system built on tokens and atomic components, structured so it scales.
The judgment to tell a system that holds from one that looks fine and breaks.
The habit of auditing a messy UI before touching it.
A roadmap you could hand to a team and follow.
The base every live cohort, Foundations and Sprint, builds on next.
A sneak peak onto AI-Driven Workflows
Recorded, at your own pace.
What comes with your seat
Learn the foundation on your own clock.
You're new to design systems, or your current one is inconsistent enough that you don't trust it.
You want the traditional foundation, tokens, naming, atomic components, before touching the agentic layer at all.
A fixed live class time doesn't fit your week, but a self-paced one does.
You already build confidently with tokens and components. Take Sprint for the agentic layer, or Foundations for the full live build.
You want live sessions, real-time feedback, and a cohort around you. Foundations is the live version of this same material.
You want the agentic AI layer specifically. Core doesn't cover it; Sprint and Foundations do.
What you need before day one
Core is self-paced, so there's no application.
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