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Design Systems Advanced
Why Join the “Advanced Design Systems Course”? Design systems aren’t just about documentation or tokens; they’re about creating better products at scale. In this course, we go bey...
What you'll gain
- ✓ Fundamentals of Visual Language
- ✓ Design Tokens and Variables
- ✓ Principles of Component Architecture
- ✓ Applying Design Systems in Practice
✓ Free consultation · Certificate on completion · Practical learning · Certificate-ready · BDG since 2009
Duration
2 months
Format
Offline
Level
Expert
Starts
Sep 27, 2025
Certificate
On completion
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Why Join the “Advanced Design Systems Course”?
Design systems aren’t just about documentation or tokens; they’re about creating better products at scale. In this course, we go beyond theory to teach you how to build, evolve, and lead design systems that actually work in real product environments. You’ll learn how to manage complexity, collaborate effectively with developers, drive adoption, and maintain system health, gaining the skills and mindset needed to deliver real impact.- Bridge Design and Code - Learn how to align your system with development teams to reduce friction and accelerate workflows.
- Design for Scale - Discover how to build systems that grow with your product, not against it.
- Lead with Strategy - Understand how to make your design system a strategic asset, not just a side project.
- Real-World Insights - Gain practical, no-fluff lessons from someone who has implemented systems at scale.
- Long-Term Impact - Learn how to drive adoption, manage contribution models, and make your system part of the company culture.
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Who is this course for
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Mid-Senior Product Designers
For experienced Product Designers proficient in Figma who aim to gain design system skills or advance their career in this direction by becoming a Design Systems Engineer.
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Other Designers
Open to designers who want to acquire design system development skills to enhance their team’s performance.
Program
- Embracing scalability in design
- Systems thinking and design at scale
- The real value of design systems
- When not to use a design system and why that’s OK
- Dispelling myths: “Systems kill creativity” and other misconceptions
- How and when to start a design system
- Stakeholder interviews and system discovery
- Defining system scope vs. product scope
- Designing the systems team: roles, responsibilities
- Visual inventory exercise: identifying reusable patterns
- Crafting your v1.0 Design System
- Color system: base colors, usage guidelines, semantic roles
- Typography system: type scales, hierarchies, styles
- Spacing & sizing rules
- Visual imagery: icons, illustrations, images
- Visual form: border radius, shadows, depth
- Motion & sound basics
- What are design tokens? Benefits and formats
- Token architecture
- Working with variables in Figma
- Foundation Tokens: Color tokens
- Foundation
- Typography tokens and rules
- Shape and radius system
- Spacing strategies (internal vs external spacing)
- Layout structure and grid systems
- Elevation layers (depth and shadows)
- Accessibility
- Balancing flexibility and restriction in components
- Theming & multi-brand design considerations
- Anatomy of a component
- Start with basics: button and link
- Text Input
- Text Area
- Label
- Avatar
- Divider
- Breadcrumbs
- Checkbox
- Radio Button
- Toggle
- Tabs
- Slider (range input)
- Badge vs. Tag
- Notification (Toast/Snackbar)
- Progress indicators
- Stepper
- Components
- Tooltip
- Popover
- Modal
- Sheet (Drawer)
- Accordion
- Focus: Z-index strategies, animation, focus traps, keyboard navigation
- Components:
- Navigation
- Select
- Dropdown
- Menu
- Components:
- Card
- List
- Data Table
- Pagination
- Empty states, error states, loading states
- Performance impact of heavy components
- Creating a pilot team and MVP component set
- Versioning and release strategy
- Performance considerations: design vs code
- Communicating breaking changes
- Growing adoption through education and internal champions
- What is great design system documentation?
- Writing documentation people actually read
- Templates for component pages
- Choosing the right tools (Notion, Zeroheight, Storybook, etc.)
- Voice and tone for documentation
- Understanding the structure of front-end systems
- How design tokens go to code (Style Dictionary, Tokens Studio sync)
- Inspecting code: what’s helpful to know as a designer
- Git basics, version control, and changelogs
- Working in design-engineering squads
- How to define success in a design system?
- Common KPIs: adoption, reuse rate, time-to-deliver, contribution ratio
- Tools for tracking: Amplitude, analytics, surveys, design usage
- Early signs your system is breaking down
Each participant/team presents their system:
- Foundations
- Components
- Documentation
- Pilot rollout or concept
- Peer review and feedback
- Final Q&A, reflection, and discussion of next steps
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Schedule
Tue 7 pm - 9:30 pm
Sat 11 am - 1:30 pm
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Certificate
On completion
15 lessons + 1 exam
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Depending on the course format and results, students can receive one of BDG's certificate types.
- ✓ Verified BDG certificate
- ✓ QR / signature-ready format
- ✓ Armenian & English certificate design
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