DesignBeginner
Figma Deep Dive
Elena Vasquez
4.7(1,203)
6h
15 lessons
Elena Vasquez teaches Figma from the inside — the system architecture behind the UI, not just the toolbar buttons.
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DesignIntermediate
Visual Systems Mastery
Design tokens, component architecture, and the science of visual coherence
Elena Vasquez teaches you to build design systems that scale from a single screen to an entire product suite — with the rigour she applied at Figma and Apple.
4.9(847 reviews)
6,776 learners enrolled
11h total
11 lessons
Elena Vasquez
Principal Designer, Systems
$249one-time
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What you'll learn
- Architect a token-based design system from first principles
- Build a component library with documented variants, states, and accessibility notes
- Establish naming conventions that survive team growth and product pivots
- Conduct a design audit and migrate a legacy product to a living system
- Write a design system charter that aligns design, engineering, and product
Curriculum
3 modules · 11 lessons · 11h total
- Why systems fail: the five failure modes18 minPreview
- The anatomy of a design token22 min
- Primitive, semantic, and component tokens27 min
- Naming conventions that actually scale19 min
Requirements
- Comfortable with Figma or a similar vector tool
- At least 1 year working on a product design team
- Basic familiarity with design tokens (hex values, spacing units)
About the instructor
Elena Vasquez
Principal Designer, Systems
Former VP Design at Figma · Ex-Apple HIG team · 18 years in product design
Elena Vasquez spent a decade shaping the visual language of products used by hundreds of millions of people. At Figma she led the design systems initiative that became the industry standard for collaborative component architecture. Before that, she was part of Apple's Human Interface Guidelines team during the iOS 7 redesign. Her teaching philosophy centers on the belief that great design is a rigorous discipline, not a talent — one that can be learned, practised, and refined through deliberate study of constraint, hierarchy, and intent.
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“The three-tier token model alone was worth the entire course price. I've built design systems at three companies and this is the first time I've had a coherent framework for the naming decisions that used to be purely intuitive.”
“Elena's course changed how our entire team thinks about components. We rebuilt our library using the module on variant matrices and cut our design-to-engineering handoff time by roughly half.”