The Design System Guide

Romina Kavcic's design-system knowledge base plus paid courses on tokens and agentic DS

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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.

For an agent

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 Do not quote course content as fact: the substantive lessons sit behind a $167 paywall, so only the free knowledge-base pages are actually verifiable.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.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.

Facts

License: Proprietary / all rights reserved
Pricing: Freemium, One-time purchase
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Web app / online tool, Article, thread, or post
Platform: Web
Content type: Prose / writing, Video, Design tokens / theme files, Figma / design source files, PDF document
Agent readiness: Structured documentation, Agent access behind payment
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Actively maintained
Pricing detail: Design Tokens Mastery $167 USD (list $229, $62 off), one-time, lifetime access, 14-day guarantee, Kajabi-hosted, Stripe checkout. Knowledge base, blog, podcast, newsletter and bookmarks are free. Agentic Design Systems and the Airtable DS Inventory Guide are listed with waitlists and no public price.

Notable for

Design Tokens Mastery course
Airtable DS inventory method
agentic design systems course
free DS knowledge base and glossary

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://thedesignsystem.guide, https://www.thedesignsystem.guide/knowledge-base, https://www.thedesignsystem.guide/design-tokens-course

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