Design System Overview
Build a design system from scratch that scales
During our online Bootcamp, you'll learn how to develop your own Design System using Figma and Notion. We will dive into scaling a Design System with the core foundations, components, and patterns. During live classes, you will work between Figma and Notion to design and confidently document a Design System. Unlike pretty styles that you see in Dribbble, this Bootcamp is designed to help you build something practical that will evolve with your product and your team contribution.
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For context, typical online courses have a 12.6% completion rate. We're proud to have a 100% completion rate
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The main goal of our Bootcamps is to ensure designers learn-by-doing and have a bunch of fun!
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We limit class sizes to foster a safe and personalised learning experience for everyone around the world.
Design System Curriculum
Learn-by-doing live in Figma
Our online Design System Bootcamp is setup to help you build and iterate on a Design System step-by-step with a practical curriculum that focuses 100% on learn-by-doing. During our Design System Bootcamp, you will learn how to sell, design, manage, and scale a Design System with your team.
As well as meeting your Design System classmates in our Bootcamp slack, you'll be asked to complete prepwork using Figma, Loom, and Notion to get you up to speed on basic component creation and UI principles. During your prep work you'll learn how to identify what's wrong with your product, why you need a Design System and how to assemble your Design System team.
- Meet your classmates in Slack 👋
- Create Notion, Figma, and Loom accounts.
- Familiarise yourself with Design Systems
- Complete our Design System prep task
- Read Design System Books
- Learn how to start, scale, and maintain your Design System
- Master working with Notion templates & databases
- Learn the best practices of using Figma
In week one we'll be diving into the core foundations of Design Systems. During our first live class we will be collaborating to learn WHY Design Systems are so valuable and how you can introduce one to your clients of company. Without understanding and being able to trannslate the value of a Design System to stakeholders and your team, your Design System will quickly collect dust.
- Learn why Design Systems are valuable
- Understand how to introduce a Design System
- Learn how to form a Design System team
- Recognise the importance of documentation
- Learn how to document your Design System
- Learn how to scale your Design System in Figma
- Understand the value of collaborating in Notion
In week one we'll be diving into a core features of Design Systems; Design Tokens. During this week you'll learn why naming of foundations, components. and patterns is crucial for consistent across design and development. Within class, we'll be learning the patterns you can follow to create consistent tokens with systems, components, categories and scales.
- Learn why Design Tokens are valuable
- Understand how to introduce Design Tokens
- Learn the anatomy of a Design Token
- Recognise the patterns of a Design token
- Learn how to set Design Tokens in your system
In week two you'll learn about the key style foundations of a Design System. During our second week class we will dive into Color, Typography, Grid, and Spacing systems to form the foundation of our Design System. Without the foundations set, it's impossible for our Design System to scale. As well as understanding these foundations, you'll assign how to document them into your Design System.
- Learn how to document your foundations
- Master & understand Color Palettes in your product 🎨
- Create a consistent and accessible color palette
- Understand how to document your Type System
- Learn how to document your Grid System
- Understand the value of Spacing systems
- Learn how to form Icon components into foundations
With your Design System foundations created and documented in Figma or Notion to easily scale, it's time to jump into understanding component variants in Figma. During this class you will learn how to document the key components in your product following the spacing system that you've set. During our live class we will collaborate to design components and you'll be challenged during homework to continue scaling your Design System component range following the variant property conventions we set and and techniques you've learned in class.
- Learn how to apply foundations to components in Figma
- Design & document interactive component variants
- Learn how to document your components
- Recognise the need for Design Tokens in components
- Design interactive components in Figma
- Learn how to document the anatomy and interaction
- Document best practices in your Design System
Having understand the value of foundations and components we'll spend our final class learning about product patterns. Product patterns combine your components into the layout of your product and you'll quickly see the value of why we create our Design System; we can spend less time designing and more solving problems. In the final week of Bootcamp you'll graduate with classmates and reflect on what you've learned and hope to apply in your workflow
- Learn how to use components within patterns
- Understand the importance of libraries within Figma
- Recognise how to form product patterns using components
- Graduate with your classmates!
- Receive a Design System template to learn from
- Receive updates on our Bootcamp to continue learning 🎉
Having graduated from our Design System Bootcamp, you'll join our alumni of experienced designers around the world who stay connected during meet-ups and in our community channel.
As well as staying connected with your classmates, and joining our alumni, we'll be dropping in with updates to our Bootcamp for you to implement into your companies Design System! As you'll learn in our prepwork, a Design System is constantly evolving and we want to keep you in the loop!
- Join our Alumni of experienced designers
- Connect with our UX/UI community in 120+ countries
- Receive updates on our Bootcamp to continue learning 🎉
Design System Schedule
Build a Design System live and together
Our Bootcamps are intense and It will be a lotta work. We pride ourselves on having a schedule that works for busy designers around the world. From zoom chats, to loom tutorials; we go the extra mile to help you learn.
Mon
Prep
30m
Prep for our weekly live class
Tue
Live class
2 hours
Jump into our live class with designers
Design Talk
1 hour
Learn from industry leaders
Wed
Digest
30m
Digest what you've learned and prep questions for our co-working session
Thu
Co-working
1 hour
Ask questions and collab with your team
Yoga
1 hour
Unwind from Bootcamp and get stretchy!
Fri
Case Study
1-2hr
We encourage you to wrap up any case study tasks so you can enjoy your weekend
Weekend
Chill out
All weekend
It's healthy to take a break and enjoy time with family and friends

Here’s the simple truth: you can’t innovate on products without first innovating the way you build them
Alex Schleifer, Airbnb
Live Classes
Learn live with a micro class
Jump into a live zoom class with your class mates around the world and collaborate live in tools like Figma. These sessions are designed to help you learn-by-doing and make Memorisely the best place to learn UX/UI online.
Case Study
Build a case study during Bootcamp
Collaboration is key for every designers and every week you'll be set design tasks to complete collaboratively with a team mate during Bootcamp. As well as learning new skills during Bootcamp, you'l graduate with a tangible case study for your portfolio or as evidence to support positive change in your design team.
We take a learn-by-doing approach and if you'd prefer quizzes and text heavy reading lists then we suggest exploring other schools.

Design System TEAM
Learn from the most qualified design instructors in the industry.
Our Design System teachers are super experienced in designing, documenting, and scaling design systems for product design teams around the world. Oh, and they are super-friendly and bring a bunch of good energy to live classes!
Zander Whitehurst
Founder of Memorisely
"Hey! My name is Zander and I'm the founder & CEO of Memorisely. I studied at Oxford University, New York University, and was an early member of Hotjar's remote product design team. I've been Product Designer for a decade and have grown a community of
250,000 UX/UI designers. I'm an Educator Advisory Board member for Figma and have taught Designers at Google, Nasa, Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber. I'm a super enthusiastic teacher and don't believe in powerpoint presentations!"
Sam Beushausen
Senior Product Designer
Teacher
Zander Whitehurst
Founder & CEO
Teacher
Michael Krewson
Senior Product Designer
Teacher
Jake Hannington
Senior Product Designer
Teacher
Andressa Lombardo
Principal Designer
Teacher
La Drury
Head of Operations
Bootcamp Operations
Belen Moran
Bootcamp Manager
Bootcamp Manager
Design System tools
Our online Bootcamps are designed around the latest remote design tools. Unlike corporate courses that have a fixed toolstack from decades past, we believe it's important to equip designers with the latest toolstack to excel in their career.
Micro Class
Join a micro class of Designers around the world
We think it's vital to have a personalised learning experience and we purposefully limit class sizes to 20 Designers. Keeping class sizes small, ensures we can cover more in the time we have and you'll learn directly from other designers. Plus, it's a safe place to learn with the whole class contributing to discussions and sharing feedback.
Design System Alumni
Meet our Bootcamp Alumni
We're proud to educate designers around the world and take a lotta pride in forming a supportive alumni. We throw quarterly alumni events and often have alumni return to Bootcamps as guest speakers.
"Do it! You're working with the most up to date processes, tools, and best practices whilst collaborating with other designers all done in a positive vibe. Your confidence as a designer will grow."
"Learning the fundamental of creating components and the overall design system with people around the world."
"Learning and having fun at the same time :). Chance to collaborate with great people. You will learn and have a great time with people from all over the world."
"Thanks to Zander for opening my eyes and thoughts regarding how we can build a scalable and robust design system. I would highly recommend and simply say "Go for it" It's worth both time and money."
"The amount of content and how it is presented. There is so much packed in each Bootcamp session! No PowerPoint slides, or PDFs, just content and hands-on exercises in Figma and everything else we need in Notion. Best investment you will make in a while! So much value not just on the Bootcamps, but in being part of the Memorisely community."
"Intense learning which has helped me to learn about how to get the most out of Figma. I enjoy Zander's deliver of the content and that the sessions are live learn-by-doing"
"It's been a great experience having someone that can provide insights into building a design system. There is a lot of info online and in books, but having someone walk through it and answer questions provides a lot more value and help to improving as a designer."
Pricing
Transparent and accessible pricing
Unlike other courses who tuck away their prices, we are totally transparent with our online Bootcamp pricing and take pride in being accessible and affordable with a monthly payment plan available.
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Join a micro class of Designers

Live Design System classes

Master Design System tools

Design System certificate
Enroll now
Join a micro class of Designers

Live Design System classes

Master Design System tools

Design System certificate
Next Design System Bootcamp
Filling up supafast!
Our Bootcamps tend to fill up pretty quickly which is why we open up months in advance. And we purposefully limit class sizes to 20 Designers to ensure each bootcamp offers a personal learning experience.
Apr 4th - May 6th
Design System Bootcamp
Live Classes · Tue, 11am-1pm GMT
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Live Classes · Tue, 3-5pm GMT
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Design System Bootcamp
Live Classes · Tue, 5-7pm EST
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Bootcamp Questions
Got a question about our Bootcamp?
Chances are at this stage you have a couple questions. We encourage our students to ask questions directly and you can arrange a quick call with us anytime.
Each bootcamp has 20 Designers. For us, it's important to keep these bootcamps super personal. This personal model ensures we can support and motivate 100% of students to graduate and have an awesome experience.
Our Design System Bootcamp is great for junior & mid-level UX/UI Designers. The majority of folks who enroll are familiar with Figma and join to learn how to create a Design System from scratch for their team. Commonly, students who enroll in our Bootcamp are hungry to improve their UI skills and learn the best practices for documenting their UI foundations, components, and patterns.
We often have a handful of junior students in each class who are eager to learn and showcase their Design System skills in their portfolio. We've had plenty of Designers land jobs, quoting their Design System skills as a turning point!
It's a great opportunity for those wanting to learn Figma and improve their skills in building out scalable styles, components, and patterns with a class around the world.
All learning is done remotely. Before the bootcamp you'll be invited to a private slack space to meet your classmates from around the world. Each week you'll join a zoom class together and throughout the bootcamp we encourage you to collaborate, and constantly feedback to learn-by-doing.
Two reasons.
Firstly, our Bootcamps differ from typical online courses. Unlike online courses that are sold for having 60hr+ of video behind a paywall, Memorisely Bootcamps are immersive learning experiences. Typical online courses have a 12.6% completion rate, whereas we pride ourselves on measuring success with a 98% completion rate from students. So instead of trying to teach yourself by goggling at a video, you'll join a fun class and be taught!
Secondly, you'll be joining classmates around the world, motivating, collaborating and learning from each other. We consider these micro classes, and together you'll graduate and likely remain design buddies for life 🙌