Digital Design: Creating Design Systems for Easier, Better & Faster Design Skillshare Original

You can have more fun by not reinventing the wheel. A design system that works is the key to better, faster and easier design.

Great design systems allow you to spend less time on repetitive, repetitive tasks and more on the creative work that you love. They are a comprehensive reference that contains guiding principles and usable parts. This means you spend less time creating forms and buttons and more time innovating.

Join Dan Mall, creative director, as he shares his process for creating effective design systems in this one-hour class.

You can create your own system or modify it over time. These lessons will teach you everything you need to make a comprehensive and effective design system that you can use every day.

Key lessons include:

• Practical components and overarching guidelines
• Examples from Apple, Google and Shopify
• Methods to create a great design system
• How to get buy-in from key stakeholders
• Tips for implementing and evolving your system

Dan also shares one of his favourite exercises: a wishlist prompt that will help your team discover how a system can benefit them every single day.

Learn how a design system can simplify your design work, make it more efficient, and improve its quality!

You can choose to be a designer, freelancer or product manager. This class will equip you with the tools you need for better decisions, time savings, and a focus on the design work that you love the most.

Images by Dan Mall x Skillshare