App Style Guide Creation
A course by Christian VizcarraSenior Product Designer
A course by Christian Vizcarra, Senior Product Designer
Learn how to document and create a style guide with Sketch
One of the key elements for the design of mobile apps is the visual style guide, which serves as documentation and guide for all the teams involved in the development, especially the programmers who must implement the designs. In this course, you will learn how to create a step-by-step style guide that not only looks aesthetically appealing but that is also highly functional.
Christian Vizcarra—product Designer and teacher of the Design a Mobile App course—has been creating digital products for more than 9 years, being recognized by CSS Design awards, Behance and Awwwards, and in this course, he will teach you how to document, communicate, and export all components to create a professional style guide.
What will you learn in this online course?
20 lessons & 8 downloads
What will we do in the course?
38 seconds
What is a style guide?
5 minutes, 18 seconds
Differences between styleguide and UI Kit
3 minutes, 35 seconds
Good practices to build a style guide
4 minutes, 50 seconds
How to create symbols?
16 minutes, 1 second
Layout
9 minutes, 24 seconds
What's included in this course?
First, you will meet Christian, who will tell you about his professional career, his experience creating digital products, and the objective of this course: the creation of style guides for mobile applications.
You will see what a style guide is, what it is for, and why it is so important when creating a digital web experience or an app. Also, you will see what a UI Kit is, what it is for, its characteristics, and the differences it has with the visual style guide that you will create in this course. You will finish the first unit seeing examples of good practices to build your manual.
Next, you will review all the elements that make up a style guide, you will learn to define, document, and export them. You will start with the symbols: how to create them and their importance; and you will continue through with the layout, the grid, the types of spaces that exist, and the colors.
Then you will learn about the typography and the hierarchies, how to document sizes, weights, styles, and everything necessary to generate consistency in your digital product.
You will see how to create icons and what should be the correct process to document the iconography of your project. In addition, you will understand how to document the UI components: buttons, forms, cards, among others.
Finally, you will learn how to apply an already created style guide to a new product and how to export assets for programmers.
Recommended software & tools for this course
What is this course's project?
You will create a style guide for a mobile application.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Designers who are interested in UX/UI and anyone who likes Graphic Design and would like to be involved in the creation of a digital product.
Requirements and materials
You will need basic web design and mobile app knowledge, and basic handling of Sketch or another design application for interactive web experiences or apps.
Regarding materials, you will need a computer with Sketch—which only works on macOS—or other graphics editors, such as Figma, InVision or Adobe XD.
Reviews
- 1 year ago
Excelente curso. Só faltou material de apoio. Poderia ter uma versão com o figma
- 1 year ago
excelente curso , me gusta que el workflow sea en sketch.
- 2 years ago
Excelente curso, me ha gustado y mejor aun muy bien explicado. :D
- 2 years ago
Awesome course!
- 2 years ago
Curso muito bom!!! Abriu meu horizontes para a área e me instigou a querer estudar ainda mais!!
As passionate about ideas as he is about product design, he always explores new ways to learn new skills and techniques to evolve as a designer, hence his personal project called The Design Project, a 60-day nonstop design challenge. His work has been recognized by Awwwards, Behance, and CSS Design Awards.
Content
- U1
Hi!
- Presentation
- Influences
- What will we do in the course?
- U2
Introduction
- What is a style guide?
- Differences between styleguide and UI Kit
- Good practices to build a style guide
- U3
Elements within the style guide
- How to create symbols?
- Layout
- Spaces
- Colors
- Typography
- Iconography
- UI components part 1
- UI components part 2
- UI components part 3
- UI components part 4
- UI components part 5
- U4
Applying a style guide
- Applying my Style guide
- Exporting assets for programming
- And if there are changes
- FP
Final project
- App Style Guide Creation
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FAQs
You’ll learn how to create, document, and implement Style Guides, manage UI components, improve collaboration between design and development, and achieve visual consistency in digital products using current tools and practices.
This course is designed for those with basic digital design knowledge, perfect for anyone looking to deepen their skills in documentation, Style Guide creation, and working closely with development teams.
Basic digital design skills and familiarity with tools like Sketch or Figma are recommended. You don’t need to be an expert, but you should be interested in documentation and improving collaborative workflows.
You’ll learn to document specifications clearly, create effective Style Guides, and use collaborative tools that reduce errors and make it easier for developers to understand your designs.
A Style Guide is a set of style rules and visual components that ensure consistency and efficiency in designing and building digital products.
You’ll get hands-on experience with tools like Sketch, Figma, Zeppelin, InVision, and Abstract to create, organize, and document interface components and Style Guides.
Yes, you’ll learn how to build UI Kits and understand the difference: a UI Kit is a collection of reusable components, while a Style Guide documents visual rules and specifications.