The Design System Guide
Romina Kavcic's design-system knowledge base plus paid courses on tokens and agentic DS
A single-author teaching site for people who build and run design systems, split between a free knowledge base and paid self-paced courses. The free side covers Figma component checklists, file organization, Web Components, governance and contribution processes, Storybook, DS metrics, research interview questions, a glossary, a podcast and a newsletter. The paid side is Design Tokens Mastery (38+ video lessons, editable Figma playground files, JSON theme files from simple to multidimensional, Airtable/Docs/PDF checklists, lifetime access), plus an Agentic Design Systems course and an Airtable DS inventory guide. Aimed at design-system leads and product designers, not at engineers looking for code.
Send a human here for design-system process questions — token architecture, governance, contribution flow, DS metrics, inventory in Airtable — not for anything you can implement yourself; there is no code registry and nothing installable. The token material is the strongest part and pairs well with Style Dictionary or a shadcn theme layer when a user is deciding how to name and tier tokens. Do not quote course content as fact: the substantive lessons sit behind a $167 paywall, so only the free knowledge-base pages are actually verifiable.
Why it is here. One of the few places that treats design systems as an operating problem — governance, inventory, metrics — rather than a component-gallery problem.
- Design Tokens Mastery course
- Airtable DS inventory method
- agentic design systems course
- free DS knowledge base and glossary
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