Design System Bootcamp

4.9 (214)

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5 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

5-week Bootcamp to build a design system & become a Figma expert. 🔥 Cohort 9: Sold out! 🗓️ Cohort 10: Fall 2025

Course overview

Gain the skills & confidence to build a design system in Figma.

Whether you build a design system for your product or just for practice. You'll become an expert in Figma's most advanced features and workflows.


More than a live workshop!

💪 Bite-sized independent projects

📺 Demo videos & resources

👋 Live office hours

👯‍♀️ Community chat & support

Who I made this course for

01

Intermediate designers ready to build their first design system or start contributing to an existing one.

02

Design teams looking to take their design system to the next level or transition from another tool.

03

Non-designers and career switchers who want to turbo boost their Figma skills and gain a deeper understanding of design systems.

Key outcomes

Figma Design System!

By the end of this bootcamp you will have built an entire design system in Figma. One with expertly designed styles, components, and workflows that are ready for anything!

Master advanced Figma features

Learn exactly when and how to use Figma's most advanced features like variables (NEW), auto layout, variants, and properties.

Find a workflow that suits your needs

Learn the benefits of using different Figma workflows and how they can best serve your product & team.

Connect with other designers

Learn and build alongside a cohort of fellow designers. Sharing feedback, holding each other accountable, and forming lasting relationships.

This course includes

12 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

130 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

22 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jan 13—Jan 19

    Jan

    14

    ✨🥾 DSB Meet & Greet

    Tue 1/1411:00 PM—11:30 PM (UTC)

    Jan

    16

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #1

    Thu 1/165:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Welcome! Let's get started 👋

    7 items

    File Structure

    7 items

    Color Palette

    10 items

    Intro to Variables & Tokens

    12 items

Week 2

Jan 20—Jan 26

    Jan

    21

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #2

    Tue 1/2111:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)

    Jan

    23

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #3

    Thu 1/235:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Color Variables & Styles

    12 items

    Typography Variables & Styles

    11 items

    Number Variables & Effect Styles [BONUS]

    5 items

Week 3

Jan 27—Feb 2

    Jan

    28

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #4

    Tue 1/2811:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)

    Jan

    29

    ✨🥾 Q&A with Luis

    Wed 1/295:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Jan

    30

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #5

    Thu 1/305:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Get Ready for Luis @ Figma

    1 item

    Components 101

    7 items

    Icon Library

    5 items

    Simple Components

    8 items

    Grids & Breakpoints [BONUS]

    10 items

Week 4

Feb 3—Feb 9

    Feb

    4

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #6

    Tue 2/411:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)

    Feb

    5

    ✨🥾 Q&A with Brad Frost

    Wed 2/55:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Feb

    6

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #7

    Thu 2/65:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Get Ready for Brad @ Atomic Design

    1 item

    Components 201

    4 items

    Advanced Components

    8 items

    Token Studio [BONUS]

    11 items

Week 5

Feb 10—Feb 14

    Feb

    11

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #8

    Tue 2/1111:00 PM—12:00 AM (UTC)

    Feb

    13

    ✨🥾 Office Hours #9

    Thu 2/135:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

    Free Build

    10 items

    Documentation, Governance & Scalability

    15 items

    Prototyping with Components & Variables [BONUS]

    7 items

Bonus

    DSB Vault [Bonus]

    1 item

4.9 (214 ratings)

What students are saying

THANK YOU! 🙏 This course has been an absolute game-changer for my career as a designer and my main client project. By finally mastering auto-layout, styles, and variables in Figma, I’ve confidently published a brand-new Design System for our web app—fully aligned with our existing front-end UI. This has helped bridge the gap between design and development. Molly is an outstanding instructor, and her video tutorials are clear, well-structured, and incredibly helpful. I’m deeply grateful!

Bri

Cohort 9

Product Designer

Contractor

Jesse J. Great teacher, and this is a very detailed and well-organized course. She also interviews leaders in the field, and you can submit questions for her. Open office sessions are great opportunities to ask questions and figure out obstacles. Questions were answered quickly (within 24 hours), and Molly and her TAs were kind, encouraging, and quick to offer tips and suggestions. This is an intermediate to advanced course. If you are new to Figma, you probably want to get more comfortable with the basics before taking on this more advanced use case.

Jesse

Cohort 9

Art Director/Graphic Designer

Currently Self Employed

This course was amazing! Molly and the team were excellent instructors and I loved how they built up the complexity of the materials and assignments over time. I would absolutely recommend this course for anyone building design systems in Figma.

Mark

Cohort 9

Principal Product Designer

HubSpot

Molly and her team have been exceptional! I needed to familiarize myself with Figma's latest features, and after completing this cohort, I finally feel up to speed with Figma and design systems. I highly recommend it!

Josh

Cohort 9

Creative Director

Work Truck Solutions

This bootcamp exceeded my expectations. The instruction was clear, thoughtful, and well-structured, making the material easy to follow without feeling lost or confused. My confidence in Figma has improved significantly, and I highly recommend this course."

Ben

Cohort 9

VP of Digital

Spyglass

This course was exactly what I needed to make sense of design systems and feel confident in my approach. There’s so much information out there, and it can get overwhelming—this course breaks it down in a super clear, structured way. Molly, Alex, and Socrates were not only engaging but also incredibly accessible, whether through office hours or the questions channel. On top of that, they brought in top design system experts to share real-world insights. I walked away with a much stronger understanding of colors, typography, grids, and how to structure, publish, and document a design system so designers can actually find and use what they need. If you’re working on a design system or part of a small design team without dedicated design system resources, I can’t recommend this course enough!

Jess

Cohort 9

Product Designer

Self-Employed

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Designers need training to develop a shared understanding of best practices and keep up with new Figma features.

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Meet your instructor

Molly Hellmuth

Molly Hellmuth

Creator of UI Prep

Hey, I'm Molly! 👋 The creator of UI Prep. A Figma design resource that has 100K+ UI kit downloads and creates custom-built design systems for a wide range of companies. I've also trained designers and design teams from amazing companies like Adobe, Microsoft, Square, Atlassian, Gusto, and Open Table.

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Course Schedule

~6 hours per week

  • Self-paced lessons

    2hr per week

    1-2 modules per week with lessons walking you through the process of building a full design system in Figma. Each one with recorded demo videos & additional resources to help you complete the next project.

  • Bite-sized projects

    2hr per week

    Build a full design system by completing a series of bite-sized independent projects. For example, "Create scalable color styles" and "Build a button component set using auto layout, variants, and properties".

  • Q&A with Molly

    2hr per week

    Two 1hr live Q&A calls with Molly and the rest of the cohort to answer questions and dive deeper into that week's projects.

    🕓 Tuesdays @ 4pm PST

    🕘 Thursdays @ 8am PST

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Project-based learning

Complete projects independently, then share your progress, ask questions, and compare notes with the rest of the cohort.

Ask Molly anything!

Get feedback directly from Molly when you submit projects and join office hour calls.

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you.

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