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UX/UI Design Program

A live, hybrid, full-time immersive that takes you from zero to a job-ready portfolio in 10 weeks — with an AI-native workflow and 12 months of career support.

Now enrolling — limited seats
Next cohort
Start dateAug 24th, 2026
FormatIn-person or live online
ScheduleMon–Fri, 9am–5pm
Commitment~440 hours / 10 weeks
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Tools you'll use
FigmaFramerClaude
The program
Design the human side of technology.

UX/UI designers decide how people experience apps, websites, and software — researching real user needs and turning them into products that are intuitive to use. This program takes you through the full modern design process, with AI woven into every stage, and gives you the portfolio and the support to actually get hired.

  • Built for career-changers — most students start with zero design background. No portfolio or degree required to apply.
  • Job-ready, not just certified — you graduate with two real portfolio projects and an AI-native workflow.
Designer working through a project
Where it leads
Roles you'll be ready to pursue

UX/UI is one of the most in-demand skill sets in tech — and it pays. These are the roles graduates target, with U.S. market salary ranges.

Product Designer
$115K–140K

The all-rounder — owns how a product works and how it looks, tied to business goals.

UX Designer
$95K–120K

Research, user flows, and solving real user problems end to end.

UI Designer
$90K–110K

The visual layer: typography, color, components, responsive design.

UX Designer (Junior)
$50K–90K

Your likely entry point into the field as you build real experience.

Senior / Lead Designer
$150K–200K+

Senior, lead, and principal roles owning strategy and mentoring teams.

Salary ranges reflect U.S. market averages and vary by location, employer, and experience. They are not a guarantee of employment or earnings.

What you'll learn
The skills employers actually hire for
Core craft

The full design process — research, strategy, design, and testing, end to end.

ResearchWireframingPrototypingDesign systemsAccessibilityAI
  • Conduct user research and identify real design problems
  • Turn research into insight — personas, journeys, problem statements
  • Sketch, wireframe, and build high-fidelity designs in Figma
  • Build interactive prototypes, then test and iterate
  • Design systems, accessibility, and developer handoff
  • Apply AI across research, design, and testing
  • Present your work and defend your design decisions
Tools & stack

An all-Figma toolchain, with AI woven through every step.

FigmaFigJamFigma MakeFigma SlidesFramerClaudeChatGPT
  • Figma — wireframes to high-fidelity UI
  • FigJam — research, whiteboarding, and journey maps
  • Figma Make & Slides — prototyping and presenting
  • Framer — AI-assisted motion and micro-interactions
  • Claude & ChatGPT — AI across research and design
  • HTML/CSS basics — enough to brief a developer
Professional skills

The habits and soft skills that make you hireable and effective on a team.

Design critiqueStakeholder communicationTeamworkPresentationsThe business of UXWorking with developers
  • Give and receive design critique with confidence
  • Communicate decisions to stakeholders and non-designers
  • Collaborate across product, engineering, and marketing
  • Present and defend your work in the room
  • Understand the business impact of your design
  • Work smoothly with developers through hand-off
How it works
Live, hybrid, and built around real projects
Step 1
Get set up

~40 hours of optional prep-work so day one starts at full speed.

Step 2
Learn the full process

Eight weeks of live, project-based practice, each unit with an AI layer.

Step 3
Build the portfolio

Two capstones and a final review — then 12 months of career support.

A live, collaborative class session
Curriculum — The Thinklab Method
Run the real studio process.

A project-based, UX-weighted curriculum built around escalating briefs, daily standups and critiques, and a job-ready portfolio. The visual craft lives in one focused UI module. AI is used as a tool — never a crutch. See the full breakdown in the syllabus.

Foundations~15 hrs

UX/UI in depth, roles, the end-to-end process, design thinking, and how a studio works — standups, retros, critique.

Research~40 hrs

Desk research (audits, heuristics, competitive, data) + field research (surveys, 1:1s, focus groups); synthesis.

Define — Strategy & Architecture~35 hrs

Problem framing, personas, journey mapping, ideation, information architecture, user flows, MVP prioritization.

Design — UX~25 hrs

Sketching, turning flows into layouts, navigation, forms, dashboards, wireframes and macro interaction flows in Figma.

UI — Visual Design & Systems~30 hrs

Design systems and tokens, type, grid, color, components, hi-fi mockups, accessibility, and micro-interactions in Framer.

Test~30 hrs

Test plans and guides, paper → hi-fi prototype testing, usability methods, analytics and A/B.

Iterate~20 hrs

Feedback loops, prioritizing feedback against KPIs (value vs effort), raising fidelity, finalizing.

Launch — Hand-off~20 hrs

HTML/CSS basics, working with developers, the hand-off kit, QA/UAT, plus a short Figma Make intro.

Present~15 hrs

Present and defend decisions, storytelling, design critique, the business of UX — decks built in Figma Slides.

Next cohort starts August 24, 2026

Ready to launch your UX career?

Limited seats, and the pay-in-full discount is ending soon. Apply now, or grab the full syllabus.

Tuition $14,950 — pay in full before day one and save $7,450. Limited seats.
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