Learn UX design online and land 6-figure job offers in 7 months, or we’ll coach you till you get it.
We offer 1 on 1 mentorship and intimate classes with our 4-month, part-time, live, online “Design MBA.”
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Other UX designer bootcamps are 2x-3x more expensive, require a full-time commitment, provide little or no 1:1 mentorship, AND consist of large, anonymous class sizes, ALL for a steep tuition fee.
Ideate Labs offers affordable UX design courses that are accessible to recent grads, working moms, gig workers, and part-time or full-time professionals . ALL for a steep tuition fee to learn ux design online
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Our mission: Make UX design and UI design accessible to women, immigrants, and POC at an affordable price.
Investing in our 4-Month “MBA” UX design course with placement means you invest less than $20 dollars per day towards your education for just a year to make $95K to $140K post-graduation. We even offer financing options to help you learn UX design online without breaking the bank. Participants can pay their tuition over a 12-18 month period. Learn more about tuition prices and financing options below.
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Book a 30-minute “UIUX design therapy” session with Samaya to learn about UX career paths and see if this is the best UI UX bootcamp for you in the first place. You will earn a $500 tuition discount after the call to go towards your tuition payments.
Early Bird Price & Deadline: $6450 if you register by February 1, 2024
Regular Bird Price & Deadline: $7350 if you register by February 8, 2024
Course Registration: Register for the course by paying a $490 registration fee. You will receive $180K-value UX career resources upon registration, such as access to our Redesign Your UX Resume & Portfolio online course, our e-book, “Creating a Career in UX Design,” and a resume review to help you create a personalized blueprint for your UI/UX career.
Payment Plans: After registering for the course, you can pay the remainder of the tuition in one lump sum, 5-6 installments, or consider financing options that will help you pay off the tuition in 12-18 months.
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Register for the 4-Month “Design MBA” course by paying the $490 registration fee now to receive a $180K salary value worth of resources. These usually cost $1090 and will help you create a personalized blueprint to make the career change today.
Here’s what you get access to when you register:
Our Redesign Your UX Resume & Portfolio course ($790)
Our “Create a Career in UX Design” E-book ($150)
A complimentary resume review to help plan your UX career right away ($150)
Hurry up on that registration because we have a limited number of seats in our cohort and seats run out fast! Save your seat today by registering today.
Helping women make bank on a daily basis 💰
You need this course if…
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You might have browsed free UX events and YouTube sessions or even taken the Google UX certification. You might even be a seasoned graphic designer or academic researcher looking to fill out a few knowledge gaps.
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You might have 1-2 projects, but it’s still unclear about what UX career path you want to pursue or what your specialty is.
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You know you need to build your confidence when it comes to pitching yourself as a UX designer to hiring managers.
Here’s HOW we help you land 6-figure UX job offers in 7 months or coach you till you get it.
Weekly 60-minute, 1 on 1 design therapy sessions ⏱
Get help from your dedicated UX mentor each week to review course materials via 1 on 1, 60-minute coaching sessions. These sessions are personalized to your project topic and can address moments when you feel stuck or confused. Think of them like design therapy sessions - at times you might address how you feel about the project, but at times you are seeking more tactical advice.
Peer-led discussions in startup think tanks every week 🧑
Discuss your project topic in student-led startup think tanks of 3-5 folks. Take the lead when talking about your project idea and get feedback from peers. Brainstorm ways that you can turn your ideas into startups or side hustles. Coordinate with your peers post-graduation to keep each other motivated!
3-month UX career blueprint to get a 6- figure UX job 🎨
We help you create a 3-month UX career blueprint via group sessions and 1:1 sessions to help you get your dream UX job after you graduate from the program. Join design therapy sessions and design crits to ensure that you have 1-2 killer UX resumes, 3-5 relevant case studies in an online portfolio, and can answer any interview question in existence with confidence! After 3 months, you are invited to design crit calls for alumni.
Life-long alumni support and career coachin🎓
Gain life-long access to a supportive alumni community where you can network with recruiters and get access to fresh UX job postings. Networking, mock interviews for important jobs, discounts to conferences, and tools. We support you throughout the job search and help you position yourself for a variety of roles and positions.
Interactive work sessions in lecture to jumpstart HW 📃
Study with us part-time for 5-10 hours each week while holding down jobs or completing college. This UX designer bootcamp was designed for part-time learners. Kickstart your homework each week by going through interactive working sessions during the lectures so that you never feel stuck about deliverables and expectations.
Weekly design critiques 👩
Discuss and brainstorm ideas for other cohort members’ projects and learn how the user experience design training process can be applied across a wide variety of industries and topics over group coaching calls. These feel like design crits that consultancies and agencies run to help educate their design and research teams around all client projects.
$47,750
Graduates’ average salary growth after UI/UX bootcamp completion. On average, they increase salaries by 1.8X.
Curriculum: Discover your true interests 4 months.
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Week 1: Choose a project topic
Class: Choose a project topic. Walk through an overview of design thinking and the design process, and how design connects to marketing, business strategy, and tech.
Deliverables: List out your assumptions about your project topic. What challenges do you want to tackle?
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Week 2: Discovery interviews
Class: Learn UX research methods to help you identify key user needs, stakeholder problems, and opportunities for improvement. Methods include leading user interviews, focus groups, ideation sessions, or stakeholder workshops.
Deliverables: 5-8 user interviews, 1 focus group, 1 ideation session.
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Week 3: Synthesize interview data
Class: Translate your research findings into actionable insights and directions. Use journey maps, process maps, and sketches as frameworks for communicating your insights. Learn how to tell a compelling story about your product to different audiences.
Deliverables: user journey maps, user types, sketches.
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Week 4: Create a business model
Class: Learn pre-totyping methods and how to build a business model for the problem you are trying to solve. Learn how to constrain your ideas based on business, operations and technical constraints. Crash course in entrepreneurship.
Deliverables: pre-totyping experiments, business models..
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Week 5: Learn about user testing
Class: Test your prototype with 5 users and re-iterate on you concept based on user feedback.
Deliverables: 5 Usability Testing Sessions, User Testing Guide.
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Week 6: Take a break to catch up
Class: Take a break to catch up on all your research initiatives, such as finishing up interviews, running focus groups or ideation sessions.
Deliverables: Catch up.
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Week 7: Midterms presentations
Class: Present your research findings and concept ideation to the class, telling a compelling story and pitching your MVP (minimum viable product) idea.
Deliverables: Present midterms.
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Week 8: Information architecture & wireframes
Class: Turn your sketches and ideation into simple wireframe concepts. Explore different layouts and consider navigation, findability, content clarity, and the information architecture for each concept.
Deliverables: Paper Sketches, Wireframe Concepts.
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Week 9: UX heuristics & grid layouts
Class: Gather basic user feedback on rough concepts and iterate. Start to consider the branding of your concepts. Put together a style guide to help you transition into creating high fidelity UI concepts.
Deliverables: Wireframe Concepts, Style Guide.
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Week 10: Visual hierarchy & atomic design
Class: Iterate on high fidelity concepts as you hone your branding and style for your designs. Get creative! Simplify your concepts towards creating a minimum viable product (MVP).
Deliverables: High Fidelity Concepts.
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Week 11: Interactive Figma workshop activities
Class: Iterate on high fidelity concepts as you hone your branding and style for your designs. Get creative! Simplify your concepts towards creating a minimum viable product (MVP).
Deliverables: High Fidelity Concepts
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Week 12: Prototyping & accessibility
Class: Combine your concepts into a testable, presentable prototype and get user feedback.
Deliverables: Clickable Prototype
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Week 13: Take a break to catch up
Class: Take a break to catch up on all your research initiatives, such as finishing up interviews, running focus groups or ideation sessions.
Deliverables: Catch up.
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Week 14: Finals presentations
Class: Present your complete project idea to the cohort and tell a compelling story about your product that gets users and investors alike interested.
Deliverables: Present finals.
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Week 15: UX portfolios, interview techniques, salary negotiations
Class: Create an online portfolio showcasing your project from this course. Learn how to present your work for job interviews or to turn your idea into a side hustle.
Deliverables: Online portfolio- first draft. Interview prep and practice.
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Week 16: UX resume, career paths, and the job search
Class: We will help you find jobs that suit your skill sets and match your interests. We will help you prep for UI UX job interviews and how to talk through your work.
Deliverables: Resume first draft. Apply to 20 UX jobs.
Prepare yourself for senior and management level UX roles.
Our graduates have gone on to manage teams, manage products, and lead UX research and design initiatives at companies. We are a cohort run by women, specifically catered to women. Our approach is customizable to you, so, no matter if you’re a total beginner, someone with prior creative experience, or pivoting careers. We personalize our approach to help you learn topics that are relevant to your goals. Depending on your professional experience, you could be pivoting into a more senior level role. If you are a recent graduate, you will be learning senior level skills that will help you negotiate pay raises and seniority over the years in your UX career.
Apply the right UX research methods at the right time
Learn about research methods and design thinking case studies. We go through the psychology of interviews and how to uncover unique insights and perspectives from stakeholders and user groups.
Apply these methods to a project topic of your choice! We want to see your vision!
Persuade any stakeholder about your ideas
Learn how to persuade any stakeholder (i.e., business leaders, analysts, marketers, and engineers) about the efficacy of your ideas, backed in both quantitative and qualitative research.
Scope startup, agency or corporate projects
Understand how design thinking connects with business models and business strategy, as well as tech constraints. Hone your product specifications to create your MVP (minimum viable product).
Take on a disciplined entrepreneurial or business mindset and learn to cut features when needed.
Feel confident enough to start your own business
Be so confident about your ideas that you feel assured about starting your own digital business or side-hustle by applying design thinking and business strategy principles.
Build and scale unique design systems
Learn about how to create designs that are usable across multiple screen sizes (desktop, mobile, tablet). Create design systems and style guides that are scalable as the product scales and features are added.
This is applicable even as your brand changes and your product goes through multiple iterations.
Covers how UX practices differ across startups, agencies and corporate
Feel self-assured working across startup, agency, or corporate environments post-graduation. See how UX practices vary across startups, agencies and global corporations based on the revenue they generate and their ability to scale. Now more than ever, businesses are very aware of the bottom line and UX practitioners need to be able to speak in business-terms about their designs, research and ideas.
Register for this course by September 12, 2024 to avoid the price hike 🖊️
Early Bird
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Regular Bird
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Course Start
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Lectures are held on Sundays anywhere between 12 pm ET and 5 pm ET. Times will be confirmed after registration.
Register for the course early to save $900.
Hurry, before seats run out!
Early Bird
$6,450
Deadline: September 12 2024
Regular Bird
$7,350
Deadline: September 19 2024
Connect with our instructors
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Samaya Sinha
Senior UX Strategist at Disney Streaming. Has over 7 years of professional experience working with startups, consulting for Fortune 500 companies, and in-house initiatives.
Mentors startups and runs design thinking workshops for Wharton's Venture Lab.
Your guide to research, strategy, and UX during the Cohort.
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Khrys Oros
Senior UX Designer with Walmart Finance and has over 7 years of experience working for startups and in-house at large corporations.
Teaches UX design courses at Drexel University. Runs a nonprofit dedicated to funding Ukrainian student education, the Luka Oros Scholarship.
Your guide to visual design, UX, and UI during the Cohort.
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Ilona Belous
Ilona is a Senior UX Designer at Keller Williams with extensive experience freelancing as both a UX Researcher and a UX Designer for startups and non profits. Ilona pivoted from nonprofit work into UX through Ideate Labs and went on to build a successful UX career for herself.
Your guide to research, strategy, and visual design during the Cohort.
What students are saying about the 4 Month Live UX UI Course.
“After going through the bootcamp, two companies that I had interviewed with prior to IdeateLabs both offered me UX roles. In total, I was offered 4 UX roles, each with higher salaries and benefits. I was able to double my salary after accepting a senior product design role, 5 months after completing the course.”
– Kristin, Cohort of Spring 2021
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