You are paired with a dedicated mentor that you can meet up with every week to help you with your homework from the class. In addition to this we host 2 hours of office hours every week and help set up study groups amongst the cohort members. You will also meet with your study group once a week. You can always talk to multiple mentors and cohort members each week to triage your project homework!

You could make a great UX researcher or UX strategist if you are curious, love talking to people, love discovering and articulating problems, and love ideating on some of the problems you uncover. You could make a great UX designer if you are analytical, like to translate problems and solutions into sketches and wireframes, and iterative. You like to keep noodling on the solutions and improving them with time.

Absolutely! If you are more analytical and have great problem-solving skills and verbal skills, you could become a great UX researcher or UX strategist, maybe even a Product Manager.

Register for the course by paying a $490 fee before Friday, September 15, 2023 to get the early bird ticket. This will save you a seat within our cohort. The registration fee goes towards your total tuition amount.

The early bird tuition rate is $6450. Pay the remainder of the $5,960 tuition in 5 more installments of $1,192, due during each week of September and October when the first 2 months of the course runs.

Please note that if you miss Early Bird tickets, the full price of the tuition is $7350. Pay the remainder $6860 in 5 equal installments of $1372.

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We will send you a confirmation that your registration payment was received. We'll invite you to a course Slack channel and ideate-labs-alumni channel. We'll host a happy hour before classes begin so that the cohort can meet each other. We'll connect you with alumni and alumni will sit in for midterms and finals presentations.

You can expect to commit 5-10 hours to this course per week. Everyone who has registered for this course so far has been working full-time 40 hour work-week jobs. They’ve been able to juggle both their work and learning goals.

Each week, we hold 2-3 hour lectures about the design process with the whole cohort. Each week, we schedule 1 hour of 1 on 1 time with you to go over your project work. A date and time for the weekly lectures is determined based on everybody's availability. Usually we run course lectures on the weekends online (Saturday afternoons or Sunday afternoons).

Yes! All live lectures and mentorship hours take place over Zoom calls.

Yes, of course! Throughout the cohort, we work in both Miro board and Figma to help you get used to working with these tools. You can receive 1:1 tutoring from your mentor on how to use these tools as well.

We record all our sessions and give you access to course recordings for 1 year so that you have time to rework your projects if needed.

We cover remote research methods, practice with UI design tools and prototyping/pretotyping/ ideation methods. We showcase how design relates to business strategy, marketing, and technical/operations constraints. This helps you better communicate your ideas to all types of folks.

Honestly, it depends on how much effort and commitment you put into doing the homework during the cohort and really taking the time to prep your resume and portfolio after the cohort ends. Some of our most successful students have become UX researchers and UX designers within 2-4 months of graduating from the cohort.

Honestly, UX requires a lot of non-linear thinking. Remember, there is no one RIGHT answer. We are constantly iterating and improving upon our ideas to increase the product’s reach. We also use research methods to help us reduce the chance of product failure once we “launch” our product to the market. UX design can be subjective, but we teach you the research and design methods you need to navigate this uncertainty and pitch your ideas with confidence.

The project topic you choose spans a project that lasts 3.5 months and walks through the end-to-end design process. The final 2 weeks are spent on portfolio and resume presentation, as well as practicing interview skills.

We hop on calls with you after the course ends for portfolio and resume reviews, interview and negotiations practice, as well as to put you in touch with recruiters based on your personal interests. We are always available to chat even after you graduate from the course and go through your job search process.

Good UI UX is good business. You will learn about how UI UX best practices help increase referral rates, conversions, and ultimately revenue.

The registration fee is non-refundable. We will save your seat for a future cohort if you are unable to attend the cohort you registered for.

This is a question that only YOU can answer truly. If you are feeling stuck, de-motivated or tired of your current job, then NOW is the time to act. We believe that its important to feel passionate and excited about the work that you are doing. All of our cohort members have mentioned that they feel like they are making a big IMPACT in the world with their work. We want you to feel this way again too. UX is a hot field right now- you have the chance of earning 6 figures and more by pivoting into this profession.