UX/UI Design Bootcamp

Sprint 1. UX/UI Design Foundations and Design Thinking
This immersive sprint will introduce you to the UX/UI design process and fundamental principles of design thinking while you explore Figma's foundational tools. You’ll establish a solid understanding of how each phase of the design process contributes to a complete, user-centered project.
Additionally, you’ll explore how to create inclusive experiences that prioritize user needs using principles of accessibility, ethical design, and inclusivity. You'll develop confidence in applying these principles to real-world design challenges, fostering a deep understanding of the user-centric and inclusive mindset that drives successful design solutions.

Sprint 2. UX Research Methods
Effective user research is the cornerstone of user-centered design. In this sprint, you'll explore various UX research methodologies and skills, such as user interviews, usability testing, card sorting, and user surveys.
You'll learn to plan, conduct, and analyze these research activities to gather valuable user insights and validate design decisions. Through practical exercises and case studies, you'll develop the skills necessary to uncover user needs, behaviors, and pain points, laying the foundation for creating successful user experiences.

Sprint 3. User Personas and Journey Mapping
Developing a deep understanding of your target users is essential for creating user-centric designs. In this sprint, you'll learn to create detailed user personas based on research insights and data. Additionally, you'll explore techniques for mapping user journeys, identifying pain points, and uncovering opportunities for design improvements. By creating these powerful tools, you'll be able to effectively represent and communicate user behaviors, goals, and needs to stakeholders, ensuring that your design solutions are tailored to the specific needs of your target audience and business goals.

Sprint 4: User Flows and Information Architecture
Designing intuitive and user-friendly experiences requires carefully crafting user flows and organizing content and features into effective information architectures. This sprint will equip you with the skills to design optimal user flows for various scenarios and create information architectures aligned with user mental models, which is crucial for building centered digital experiences.

Sprint 5. Wireframing and Prototyping
In this sprint, you'll master essential wireframing and prototyping techniques using industry-standard tools like Figma. You'll learn how to create detailed wireframes and interactive prototypes that effectively communicate design concepts and facilitate user testing. Through hands-on exercises, you'll develop the ability to iterate designs based on user feedback, ensuring your solutions are user-centric and validated.

Sprint 6. UI Fundamentals
In this sprint, you'll explore essential UI design principles, including grids, layouts, text hierarchy, typography, color, and contrast. You'll learn techniques for consistent UI design through style creation and organization in Figma to ensure visually engaging, user-friendly, and professional-looking interfaces. Additionally, you'll explore interactive component design and responsive design principles, enabling you to create smooth transitions, and visual cues that guide users through your interfaces while ensuring layouts are adaptable across different screen sizes.

Sprint 7. Design Systems
Consistency is crucial in creating successful user experiences. This sprint will explore the principles and components of design systems, which provide a scalable and cohesive framework for designing and building digital products. You’ll dive deeper into various design system components, including typography, color palettes, buttons, icons, and design patterns. Additionally, you'll learn to create comprehensive documentation and guidelines for design systems, preparing you to understand and utilize design systems in future projects.

Sprint 8. Branding & Motion Essentials
As designers, it's crucial to establish a brand identity to stand out among the competition. You’ll start by exploring how mood boards capture a brand’s unique tone, colors, and style. You'll learn to conduct competitor analysis for a defined and unique brand direction and create a brand language guide to inform design decisions. Through practical exercises, you’ll also gain a deeper understanding of motion design principles and how motion enhances user engagement and strengthens brand identity.

Sprint 9. Design Handoff and Cross-Functional Collaboration
In this sprint, you’ll learn how UX/UI designers fit into different types of companies, from fast-paced startups to big in-house product teams. You’ll explore the key roles on a product team and how to understand project briefs and team workflows like Agile and Scrum. You’ll also dive into real-world collaboration skills: using tools like Jira and Notion, running sprints and feedback sessions, and preparing clean, organized files for developers. By the end, you’ll know how to hand off designs, follow platform guidelines, export assets properly, and run final design quality checks — setting you up to work smoothly on any professional design team.

In this culminating sprint, you'll apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program to a comprehensive capstone project. You'll engage in an end-to-end design process, starting with user research and progressing through ideation, prototyping, and final design presentations. This hands-on experience will simulate real-world design challenges and provide you with invaluable practice in tackling complex design problems. You'll receive peer reviews and professional feedback, helping you refine your work and prepare for a successful career in UX/UI design.

In this culminating sprint, you'll apply the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the program to a comprehensive capstone project. You'll engage in an end-to-end design process, starting with user research and progressing through ideation, prototyping, and final design presentations. This hands-on experience will simulate real-world design challenges and provide you with invaluable practice in tackling complex design problems. You'll receive peer reviews and professional feedback, helping you refine your work and prepare for a successful career in UX/UI design.