Dan Mall teaches an 8-week design systems course with video lectures, weekly assignments, and mentor feedback. You'll learn Figma and Visual Studio Code, build system constraints, and finish with a capstone project that gets you a certificate and a Dribbble listing.
Hi friends, I'm Dan Mahl. I've been a designer and a Creative director for the last 23 years. I've spent the last decade running design systems consultancy, super friendly and working with clients like Nike, Eventbrite, Compass, United Airlines, ExxonMobil and a lot more to take their design system to the next level. So many companies nowadays are investing in design systems to help them be more efficient, consistent and ultimately more innovative and to help them operate at scale. Now is the time to learn as much as you can about them. I am super excited to announce this certified eight week design system course that will teach you everything you need to know about the craft of creating and sustaining a design system. Let me walk you through the curriculum each week. We'll start with a video lecture from yours truly and end with an assignment and a little bit of studying to do every week you'll also meet with an expert mentor who currently works in the industry on design systems at one of the world's best companies. They'll give you professional guidance, they'll review your work and they'll also give you real time, relevant advice so that you can grow in your design system journey too. This course is a very flexible mix of consuming and creating content that you can do on your own time. A few times throughout the course you'll also have a chance to meet live with me and other industry leaders to do Q and A sessions and Ask me Anything sessions so that you can get the most relevant, timely information about what's happening in the world of design systems. Let's go over all the topics that you'll learn in this course. You'll get a thorough understanding of what design systems are. Did you know that there are different kinds of design systems? We'll go through each one of them in detail so that you can be the center of attention at every design system party. You'll learn about design system process and workflow. We'll walk through all of the different kind of processes that you'll need to build your own way to work on design systems that suits you. You'll learn new tools whether you're a designer or an engineer. We'll open up design tools like FIGMA to find out what features work best for design systems and learn how code components in tools like Visual Studio Code. You'll learn about rules and design systems, when to use them, when to break them, and when to create ones all your own. This course tops off with a capstone project in the last few weeks that'll put all of your newfound design system skills to the test. It'll really stretch your ability to create a truly reusable and flexible design system. At the end, you'll graduate with a series of certificates and badges that you can display on your dribble and LinkedIn profiles to show the world that you have what it takes to work on design systems at any level Will also add you to Dribbble's public list of design system graduates, so you can either get a new job in design systems or get a promotion at your current job. If you've ever wanted to dive deep into design systems, now is your chance. Don't miss this course. Register today and I'll see you soon.
