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Lena Fischer
4.9(864 reviews)

A course by Lena Fischer, principal product designer

Design Systems That Scale

Build a system people actually adopt: tokens that survive a rebrand, components with honest APIs and a contribution model that does not depend on one hero.

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Lessons

11

Difficulty

Advanced

Students
5,210
Language
English
Subtitles
EN, ES, PT, DE
Resources
17 files
Duration
2h 33m

Assignment

Audit a real product's UI, propose tokens and specify three components with states and accessibility notes.

Prerequisites

Two years of product design experience and comfort with auto layout.

Materials

  • A design tool with variables
  • A sample product to audit

What you'll learn

  • Design a three-tier token architecture
  • Write component specs engineers love
  • Measure adoption across products
  • Run a lightweight governance process

Course content

4 stages · 11 lessons · 2h 33m total

  1. The adoption problemPreview10:30
  2. Auditing what exists16:20

Your mentor

Lena Fischer

Principal product designer · Berlin · Design lead at a 400-person fintech

Fourteen years shaping banking, mobility and health products. Lena teaches the unglamorous middle of design: framing, trade-offs and getting a team to yes.

18.4klearners

4.9rating

14 yrsin industry

Learner reviews

4.9

864 reviews

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  • Daniel Reyes

    2 weeks ago

    Finally, the middle of the process

    Most courses show the shiny final file. This one showed the messy decisions in between, and the critique session alone was worth the price.

  • Kira Nakamura

    1 month ago

    Short lessons, real assignments

    Every lesson is under twenty minutes and ends with something to make. I finished on my lunch breaks in five weeks.

  • Sam Ortega

    2 months ago

    Changed how I present work

    The feedback from my mentor was specific, kind and a little brutal in the right places. My portfolio reviews go much better now.

  • Rob Hale

    1 month ago

    Great content, wanted more examples

    Clear and practical. I would have liked one or two more worked examples in the later stages, but the downloads fill the gap.

  • Grace Ampofo

    3 months ago

    Good, but pace yourself

    Lots of material. The exercises take longer than the timings suggest, so plan for that.

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