Program Overview
Prepare for a career as a UX Designer
BrainStation's User Experience course is an immersive, project-based learning experience, designed to transform your skillset and launch a new career in design.
The program's curriculum is challenging, comprehensive, and constantly updated, ensuring you are always learning cutting-edge UX/UI design concepts, skills, and tools. Led by Educators with experience in the field, you will develop and work on a fully realized mobile app, in the process building a portfolio of completed projects.
By program's end, you will have the skills, experience, and confidence needed to dive into a career in UX design.
Get Your Dream Job in Tech
90%+
Employed graduates working in-field within 180 days of graduation
This Program is approved under the Private Career Colleges Act of Ontario.
Looking for our Online User Experience Design Bootcamp?
Take our Online User Experience Design Bootcamp from the comfort of your home. Learn from industry experts through real-time, interactive lectures in an engaging classroom environment.
View Online Course PageYour Student Journey
Your student journey begins with a free admissions challenge, which will teach fundamental user experience concepts. As you move through the User Experience Design course, our team will continue to work with you, providing career guidance and professional development, every step of the way.
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Admissions Challenge
At your own pace
What You'll Learn
User Experience Fundamentals
Understand the multiple facets of User Experience Design, including the principles of Design Thinking and Human Centered Design. You will complete a design challenge that will illustrate your ability to organize unstructured information and create a functional design for your user.
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Program
12 weeks
What You'll Learn
User Experience Design Fundamentals
Participate in a class-wide design sprint where you will gain hands on experience with Sprint Methodology. You will identify the problem space, develop solutions, and create wireframes and prototypes while using professional design tools including Sketch and InVision.
User Research and Strategy
Plan and conduct user research to understand behavior, needs, and motivation. You will then learn how to translate your findings into relevant project requirements and product designs.
Design Research and Strategy
Plan and conduct user research to understand behavior, needs, and motivation. Communicate complex interactions visually through experience maps, featuring personas that represent real users. Continue to build a core foundation in design research through Information Architecture and the creation of Task Flows. Translate your findings into product design using wireframing and prototyping.
User Interface Design
Build upon your knowledge of usability design to master the nuances of typography, colour, illustration and images. Use industry tools including Sketch to design professional interfaces. Learn methods for designing and maintaining user interface pattern libraries.
Responsive Design
Apply industry standard design principles to create both low and high fidelity applications and websites. Utilize grids and breakpoints in the design process to ensure your projects are responsive across various screen sizes, guaranteeing a seamless experience.
Professional Development
Use high fidelity design mockups to provide realistic visualizations of your projects in a functional and visually appealing portfolio that demonstrates your end-to-end understanding of the design process. Finally, understand the latest industry trends and tools to market your skills in the UX Design job market.
Interested in what a typical day or Capstone Project looks like?
Learn From Industry Leading Guest Speakers
BrainStation students get access to exclusive guest lectures and panel discussion events led by some of the world's leading subject matter experts and professionals.
Recent Industry Guests
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Samantha Yu
VP, Brand & Integrated Marketing at Refinery29
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Alexandria Stried
Chief Product Officer at Ellevest
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Michael Katchen
Co-founder and CEO at Wealthsimple
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Laura Elsener
Senior Data Scientist at Squarespace
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David Lennie
SVP, Data Science and Engineering at Shopify
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Fab Dolan
Head of Marketing at Google
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Michael Ayeoola
Senior Product Manager at The New York Times
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Shimona Mehta
Head of EMEA at Shopify Plus
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Mike Giepert
ECD at Wealthsimple
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Satish Kanwar
GM & VP of Product at Shopify
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Clare Carr
VP of Marketing at Chief
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Kirstine Stewart
Head, Shaping the Future of Media at World Economic Forum
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Nicole West
VP, Digital Strategy & Product at Chipotle
Career Services
Preparing you for a Career in User Experience Design
Your experience at BrainStation will prepare you for your new career, giving you the confidence, knowledge, and experience needed to succeed. Have questions about our career services? with an Advisor
Build Your Portfolio
Build an impressive portfolio of completed projects, showcasing the skills you have developed.
Prepare for Interviews
Get interviewed by a Hiring Manager and a UI/UX Designer, and receive feedback.
Gain Industry Insights
Build meaningful connections, collaborating virtually with like-minded professionals and industry experts.
Our Student Success Team will work closely with you throughout your student journey, helping you set goals and ensuring you're on track to meet them.
“It's amazing to see the level of work that the students can produce in just ten weeks. The need for design talent is huge these days and BrainStation is in a unique position to create that talent and provide that to the industry.”
Vadim Tslaf
Senior UX Manager, Shopify
“At BrainStation, I went from ‘never-touched-design-software-before,' to presenting my final projects with confidence. I was lucky enough to get interviews right away - I started to work full-time in the field a month after my graduation.”
What our students say
Starting my career in the field right after finishing the course proved how valuable digital skills are.
Pavla Bobosikova, Product Manager at Affinity.co
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BrainStation offers some of the most competitive payment options for digital learning, with a range of flexible plans and scholarship opportunities.
To learn more about your payment options, view our course package.
Choose a payment plan with up to
24
Monthly Installments
Please be advised: all scholarships must be approved and applied prior to enrollment in a BrainStation course or program.
How to Apply
BrainStation selects individuals who are committed to earning a career in UX design, and who will thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative learning environment.
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Speak with a Learning Advisor
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Submit an Initial Online Application
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Receive an Invitation to an Interview
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Complete the Admissions Challenge
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Acceptance
Learn in the Heart of Toronto
460 King Street West, Toronto, Canada
Located at King and Spadina, our 20,000 square-foot Toronto campus is a vibrant community hub, just steps away from some of the world's most influential technology companies.
Due to the heritage nature of 460 King the upper floors of the building are stair-access only (no elevators). Please contact us in advance regarding any accessibility questions or concerns for your course or program of interest. BrainStation also offers Online learning options.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the difference between UX and UI Design?
UX design is the craft of making the user’s experience when interacting with a digital product as effective, efficient, and pleasant as possible. It is, in short, the process of building products with the user in mind.
UI design, on the other hand, relates to design concerning all the visual elements the users of a website, app, or piece of software (or mobile device, or even appliance) interact with. The "UI" in "UI design," in fact, stands for "user interface."
UI design, therefore, has a narrower focus than UX design, which concerns a user’s entire journey from beginning to end.
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Will I earn a UX Design diploma from this UX bootcamp?
Yes, when you complete the UX Design program, you will earn a BrainStation UX Design Diploma, which can boost your LinkedIn profile and resume, helping you stand out in the job market when starting a new career in UX Design.
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What payment options do you offer?
To help you become a UX Designer, BrainStation offers some of the most competitive payment options for a UX design bootcamp, with a range of flexible plans and scholarship opportunities.
These include:
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Monthly payment installments
Allowing you to split your tuition into smaller monthly payments.
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Employer sponsorship
Get your tuition reimbursed by your employer.
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Scholarships
We offer a range of scholarships to make learning UX design more accessible.
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Monthly payment installments
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What kind of backgrounds do people have that take this UX Design bootcamp?
Once admitted to BrainStation’s UX Design program, you can expect to learn alongside like-minded, ambitious professionals who have taken the step to transform their skills for a new career in UX design.
Professional backgrounds vary quite a bit in the UX Design bootcamp, as demand for UI, UX, and general design skills has increased across a range of fields and industries, including finance, marketing, web development, product management, retail, and more.
80 percent of BrainStation students have a post-secondary education, with 20 percent having earned a Master’s degree or PhD.
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What tools and software do we learn?
Led by Educators with real-world UX design experience, students will use design thinking, Sketch, InVision, and more to develop a deep understanding of UX design principles, including information architecture, prototyping and usability testing, user interface design, responsive design, app design, and more. This knowledge is then applied to complete two design sprints, three real-world projects (focusing on a separate component of UX design), and a final portfolio piece.
By the end of the program, graduates will have the skills, experience, and portfolio needed to dive into a career in UX design.
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What is the difference between this and the part-time UX Design course?
BrainStation's UX Design Bootcamp is an intensive, full-time learning experience, delivered in 12 weeks. The bootcamp is designed to transform your skillset and help you launch a new career in design. Led by Educators with experience in the field, you will develop and work on a fully realized mobile app, in the process building a portfolio of completed projects. By program's end, you will have the skills, experience, and confidence needed to dive into a career in UX design.
BrainStation’s UX Design course, on the other hand, is a flexible, professional development course offered part-time, over 10 weeks. Taught by industry experts, the UX Design course is a project-based, hands-on learning experience, allowing you to develop design skills and learn the latest tools and techniques.
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What kind of jobs can this bootcamp get me?
UX Designers work across many different industries, which means there is a lot of variation in UX design job titles. Here are some of the most common UX design job titles you may encounter during a job search:
- UX Designer
- User Researcher
- UX Researcher
- Usability Tester
- Data Analyst
- Information Architect
- Experience Designer
- Interaction Designer
- Information Architect
- UX Strategist
- UX Architect
- UX Product Manager
- UX Analyst
- UX Engineer
- UX Developer
- Product Designer
- Visual Designer
- Content Strategist
Many other variations exist and these will continue to evolve as UX design becomes more prevalent.
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What kind of career services do I get?
BrainStation’s Career Success Team is dedicated to creating a learning experience that extends far beyond the classroom, providing a framework for success built on insights and input from technical recruiters, career coaches, BrainStation Educators, and alumni.
The team will help you refine your UX design portfolio, connect you with industry professionals, prepare for the career search and interview process, and showcase your design work to peers and hiring partners.
User Experience Design is In-Demand and Growing
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87%
of hiring managers say that acquiring UX Designers is a top priority1
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73%
of companies plan to conduct UX testing in the next 12 months2
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20k+
open positions in UX design currently available in the US3
Sources: 1) Adobe, 2) Intechnic, 3) Glassdoor