Become a solo design system wizard
A video course for product designers. Learn the best ways to build design systems in Figma within the context of your team and manage feature development needs.
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Design Manager, Bestow Life Insurance
Credentials that speak for themselves
Our design resources have been downloaded thousands of times in the Figma community. The Headway design team has contributed countless hours to mentorship and design education. We don't like to brag, but we think it's important to share what makes our work stand out from the rest.
Resource downloads in Figma Community
Our UI Kit is a favorite in the Figma community, and for good reason. With its high-quality design elements and customizable features, it's the perfect starting point for any designer.
Hours of Dribbble and ADPList mentorship
Our design teachers have dedicated over 100 hours into mentorship and education on platforms like Dribbble and ADPlist. This video course will tap into this wealth of experience and expertise.
Happy clients using our Shipwright UI kit system
With the principles in this course, we've developed a powerful design system kit called Shipwright that we use to jumpstart the design system process with clients.
Gain control of the process
With our video course, you'll learn how to create a system that works for you—not against you.
Create consistency
Use atomic design principles to set up your design system with consistent naming conventions.
Leverage systems
Build components with a systematic approach using concepts like bulk edits and “replace me.”
Improve hand-offs
Document and manage your design system for better hand-offs to the development team.
Super-charge your design workflow
Who is this for?
There's something here for everyone!
Rookie Designers
You're alone or on a small design team that collaborates with a lot of developers.
Struggling Designers
You’re struggling to keep up with the ever-changing demands of adding new feature sets.
Developers
You don’t have the time to scour the internet to keep up with evolving industry standards.
Project Managers
You're comfortable working in Figma and want to leverage the design systems with your team.
What do the courses Help You Do?
There are two required paths to becoming a design system expert.
Learn the theory
What are the models you can use and why do they matter? This helps you solve complex design challenges within projects. In these videos you gain wisdom
Then you build
Put the theory into practice with step-by-step tutorials. With the theory and practical skills combined, you will become a powerful resource and leader for any product team.
Invest in your career and future
Understanding Design Systems & Building Design Systems
Try risk-free! If you don’t think this course delivered you value, you can get your investment back within 14 days.
Can your company to pay for it?
Added Bonuses
Figma UI Kit
Figma Variables Guide
Design System Checklist
Component Best Practices Guide
Design System Structures Guide
Governance Model Template
Product Team Interview Guide
Type Scale Worksheet and Plugins
Learn from our collective experiences
The course wasn't created by just one designer. The entire design team at Headway is working together to share the best ways to craft design systems that meet your unique needs.
Design Lead
Senior Product Designer
Product Designer
Staff Designer
Product Designer
Senior Product Designer
Senior Product Designer
Senior Product Designer
Head of Design
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FAQs
These lessons are self paced, but we recommend a pace of four weeks. The important thing is to go at a pace you are comfortable with and see how you can apply what you learn to projects in the real world.
We actually have a handy dandy email and message template to use to help you ask your company so you can expense it. Grab our "Can I expense this?" Template here.
Yes we do! Our YouTube channel has over 800k views and 10k subscribers full of videos on design systems, UX audits, and design leadership. We also have articles and resources at headway.io.
Fair question. Why trust us? Our team at Headway uses these lessons and templates to for training designers at companies like Ford. We also use them for onboarding new designers at Headway.
The plan is to make these courses and the Shipwright Academy a living, breathing educational resource. If Figma has updates, we'll add new videos to fill in the gaps. We also plan to add other courses for specific topics such as UX audits, typography, and even design systems for developers.