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Guest lectures, workshops, and mentoring on design systems and tool-agnostic workflows.
Software changes faster than anyone can teach it. What lasts is the thinking underneath: how to structure a workflow, how to build a system that survives contact with a real team, and how to keep it alive once it ships.
Teaching happens alongside client work, on request, rather than as a separate business line.
Building flexible systems so designers aren’t handcuffed to a single software platform. Instead of training students to be Figma experts or Adobe experts, this is about teaching the underlying thinking: how to structure a workflow, use design tokens, and set up systems that move with them as the industry shifts. It also opens the door to talking about code, because building tool-agnostic systems means understanding how design and development actually connect, not just handing off a file and hoping for the best.
Teaching students to build design systems that aren’t static, one-and-done deliverables, but living systems that grow and adapt as new tech emerges. Instead of treating a design system as something you finish and file away, this session shows how to use it actively: running real-time experiments to test what works, and just as importantly what doesn’t, so the system keeps evolving alongside the tools and the industry.
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It made structure the whole job.
Anyone can produce an interface now. What separates work that lasts from work that gets rebuilt in two years is whether there was a system underneath it: tokens that mean something, naming that survives a handoff, and documentation that a tool can actually read.
That is the part worth teaching, and it is the part most curricula skip in favour of the software of the moment.
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Single sessions for a class or team, built around one idea rather than a tour of a tool.
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Hands-on and longer form, where the group builds something real and leaves with it.
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Ongoing and one to one, usually for designers moving toward systems or development work.