Become a UX Designer
on Your Evenings and Weekends
BrainStation's bootcamps are built from the ground up for working professionals, so you can upgrade your skills while continuing to work at your current job.
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Flexible Learning Designed for Working Professionals
- Level up without interrupting your career or giving up your salary.
- Score points by immediately applying learnings to your job.
- Planned breaks help you balance your commitment and succeed.
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Build Your Skills and an Industry-Ready Portfolio
Throughout the program, you'll not only transform your skills: you’ll create a professional, industry-ready portfolio that highlights everything you've learned, tailored to your specific career goals.
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Personalized, 1-on-1 Career Support From Day 1
Whether you're looking to change careers or level up your skills within your current company, BrainStation's Career Success team will work with you to develop a unique career success plan based on your specific goals.
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Bootcamp Learning,
Designed for Professionals
The Balanced Weekly Schedule
You'll attend two evening classes on weekdays, paired with one weekend session every other week. This rhythm helps you stay consistently engaged, without overwhelming your evenings or disrupting your weekends.
Industry Sprint Weeks
Apply everything you've learned across two separate 4-day industry sprints, where you'll collaborate in cross-functional teams to tackle challenges sourced from real leading companies. Present your solution to a panel of business representatives and demonstrate everything you've learned.
Industry Sprint project
Designing a Data-Driven Travel Recommendation Engine
How can Airbnb create a more personalized recommendation engine to drive better customer experiences based on user preferences and history?
Industry Sprint project
Personalizing Content Discovery on The HBO Max App
How might HBO Max help users easily discover content they'll love? What innovations can be brought to the HBO Max app that supports content discovery?
Industry Sprint project
Driving Podcast Innovation With Spotify
How might Spotify discover the ideal podcast format for listeners considering short-form vs. long-form durations, and seamlessly incorporate it into the in-app podcast experience?
Industry Sprint project
Amplifying Fan Engagement Through Digital Innovation
How can the NBA use what it knows about its fans to increase fan engagement with the League by leveraging digital innovation?
Past Industry Sprint Partners Include:
UX Design Bootcamp Curriculum
Unit 1
UX Design Fundamentals
Immerse yourself in the world of UX design and quickly develop a strong foundation by starting the program with a guided design sprint. Design sprints are time-constrained exercises used by UX Designers and focused on solving problems through a structured, iterative process. This experience will allow you to gain familiarity with and a basic understanding of UX design concepts and how they fit together to address real-world challenges. You'll gain exposure to design thinking, problem-solving tools, design sketches, and more, all while learning industry tools to draft, iterate, and test your solutions. After this experience, you'll be ready to dive into the more advanced work and topics ahead on your journey to become a UX Designer.
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- Key Skills:
- Design Thinking
- UX Mindsets
- Sketching
- Moodboards
- Wireframes
Explore the UX Design Process
Through a design sprint, you'll gain an end-to-end overview of the UX design process, starting with an understanding of how to approach design problems and how to begin empathizing with users. You will also explore key UX fundamentals including moodboards, storyboarding, prototyping, testing, design presentations and more.
Discover Creative Practices & Industry Tools
Explore how to structure problems and implement creative ideation methods in your problem solving approach. Learning and applying these practices and methods will help you across your journey in this program and beyond in your UX career. You'll also learn how to use Figma – an industry-standard tool used by UX/UI designers and leading companies around the world.
Unit 2
UX Research, Strategy & Planning
In this unit, you'll take a deep dive into UX design to learn and apply diverse methods to craft user-centric experiences. Start by leveraging frameworks and tools such as user research, personas, empathy mapping and more to understand users and their needs. Use these inputs to strategize design solutions, and quickly validate decisions using sketches, wireframes, and task flows among other tools. You'll also review case studies and learn and apply key principles to support a positive user experience for your target users across different devices. Among a host of other topics, this densely-packed unit is focused on teaching you how to perform UX design and develop high-quality solutions that drive value for users. You will also explore the most recent developments in the field of generative AI and how tools such as ChatGPT can be leveraged as part of the UX process.
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- Key Skills:
- User Research
- UX Strategy
- Personas
- Empathy Mapping
- Experience Mapping
- Agile Fundamentals
- Information Architecture
- Task Flows
- App Design
- Prototyping
- User Testing
- Artificial Intelligence
Perform Detailed UX Research and Develop a UX Strategy
A world-class UX designer starts by developing with an intimate understanding of the problem at hand and the end-users. Learn and apply advanced, strategic problem-solving tools to dissect challenges, define constraints and measures of success, and formulate a design hypothesis and project brief. Dive deep into UX and user research, learning how to conduct and apply a variety of research methods and frameworks to find user insights.
Plan and Iterate on Your Designs
With user insights and a strategy in-hand, you'll explore how design patterns and UX considerations differ between mobile apps and web apps, along with iOS and Android devices. You'll also explore concepts related to the Agile methodology to help you organize and communicate your work. By learning and applying information architecture, sketches, wireframing and task flows, you'll be able to optimize your solutions and catch mistakes early, before building a high-fidelity output.
Build and Test Interactive Prototypes
Testing is essential to developing a strong, user-centered design. Having planned your design solution, it's time to build and test a functional prototype. Learn how to conduct user testing and how to use testing outputs to improve your designs. You'll also learn how to optimize your design workflow to organize yourself and speed up project work, among other important UX concepts.
Unit 3
User Interface & App Design
User Interface (UI) design plays an important role in supporting user experience. Interfaces need to be carefully crafted across a variety of devices and platforms, from desktop computers to mobile phones and wearables, to provide a consistent and easy to interpret experience. In this unit, you will learn and apply UI/UX design concepts and visual design principles to transform your experience and prototypes into a polished, high-fidelity output. You'll also build an interaction design foundation and learn app design, motion, and accessibility principles to elevate your work, support a positive user experience, design beautiful UI elements, and broaden your creative possibilities.
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- Interaction Design
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Typography & Visual Hierarchy
- Design Grids
- UI Libraries
- Inspiration Boards
- Color Theory
- Accessible Design
- Motion Design Fundamentals
Learn and Apply UI Design to Create Stunning Interfaces
Understand the role UI design plays in a digital experience and bring your work to life by learning and applying key UI/UX design concepts. You'll learn about interaction design, grids and spacing, typography, and more. Find UI/UX design inspiration and learn how to structure information, strategically apply color, and evaluate your designs to build and refine a beautiful, usable, and enjoyable digital experience.
Discover App & Motion Design Principles
Mobile devices continue to perform more and more functions in our daily lives. Explore UI/UX considerations for mobile apps and learn about voice experiences as an emerging user interface. Learn and apply the fundamentals of motion design as an important method of communicating information and begin applying basic motion components to your designs.
Explore Inclusive and Accessible Design
Applying accessible and inclusive design elevates your work and improves usability, benefiting all types of users. Learn about the diversity of abilities; such as auditory, cognitive, physical, and more, and explore how UX/UI design choices impact accessibility and usability. Use tools to help you create more accessible designs and explore how UI concepts such as color, typography and more must be considered in accordance with accessibility principles.
Unit 4
Applied Design Thinking & Responsive Website Design
Digital products and experiences serve a variety of purposes and operate on a diverse set of platforms and devices. In this unit, learn how to implement responsive UX/UI design for the web. You'll examine websites and product marketing pages, understanding the differences between them and learning how to construct impactful wireframes that drive value for businesses and users. You'll also further refine your UX research skills by learning how to perform research throughout product development into the post-launch phase.
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- Key Skills:
- Design Thinking
- Design Sprints
- Group Collaboration
- Design Presentations
- Creative Problem Solving
- Responsive Experience Design
- Responsive Grids & Wireframes
- UX Research for Product Launch
Solve Real-World Challenges in a Design Sprint
With a strong understanding of UX/UI design, you'll dive into a second design sprint to solve real-world problems in a small group. Leverage design thinking and navigate each stage of the UX process to strategize, design, prototype, test, and iterate on a design solution. At the end of the sprint, you'll be able to practice your design presentation skills, showcasing your UX/UI solution and process.
Practice and Implement Responsive Design
Modern digital experiences and interfaces are expected to look professional and function properly across all our different devices and screen sizes. Explore responsive design for the web, and gain an understanding of the different components and design patterns used. Create responsive wireframes and mockups, and learn how to adjust your designs and grids for a variety of devices.
Explore UX Research for Product Launch
A UX designer's work doesn't end once a design has been completed. Throughout development and once digital products are launched, UI/UX designers must have an understanding of how to gather data and perform research to measure success. Learn about key research methods and when to use them, to highlight user challenges and improve your designs.
Unit 5
Professional Development
UX/UI Designers are a critical part of any digital team and must have the skills to collaborate with others to build digital products. In this unit, round out your skill set and prepare for your new career by exploring a range of professional development topics. Explore UX/UI design workflows used by agencies and product companies, and learn how to use Figma to prepare and pass off your designs to software developers. Analyze design case studies and portfolios to build and showcase your new skill set.
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- Design Handoff
- Portfolio Development
- Design Presentations
Connect Design Workflows with Software Development
Developers are responsible for building designs and translating them into real-world products. Learn industry tools and practices to share your work with developers and effectively collaborate on designs. Through learning these techniques, you'll also gain a better understanding of what developers need to work with designs, and how they build digital products.
Plan and Create Your UX Portfolio
Design case studies are an extremely powerful tool to showcase your process and work to peers and employers. Case studies also provide the opportunity to gain insights through reflecting on past experiences which can help you improve as a designer. In this unit, you'll plan and create your own UX portfolio.
Expert Career Support, Designed For You
No two career paths look the same, and your career support shouldn't either. As a bootcamp graduate, you'll work 1:1 with a Career Advisor to build a strategy that fits you and your unique career goals.
Choose your path:
Career Advancer
Looking to level up in your current company
Career Changer
Ready to make the leap into something new
No matter your path, we'll help build a customized Career Roadmap to get you there.
Career Advancers
Reskilling or upskilling within an existing role
Identify internal growth opportunities that align with your upgraded skill set
Work with your Career Advisor to identify internal roles or promotion paths that align with your new skill set. Whether you're aiming for a formal role change or a more technical scope in your current job, we'll help you spot the opportunities and strategize how to pursue them.
Reframe your resume and online presence to reflect your evolving career story
Together, you'll update your resume, LinkedIn, and internal profiles to reflect your evolving career story. Learn how to position your new skills and past achievements in a way that resonates with internal decision-makers and showcases your readiness for what's next.
Develop an internal networking plan to create visibility and mentorship
Develop a personalized internal networking plan to increase your visibility within your organization. Get guidance on how to approach leaders, identify potential mentors, and build relationships that support your growth and open doors.
Practice internal career conversations with specialized mock interview practice
From pitching yourself for a new role to asking for a promotion, your Career Advisor will help you practice and refine your message. Through 1-on-1 mock sessions, you'll build the confidence to communicate your goals and value clearly in internal interviews and career development conversations.
Career Changers
Transitioning to a brand new career
Translate your past experience into a compelling narrative for your new role
Your experience is valuable. Learn how to translate your previous roles into a narrative that makes sense to employers in your target industry. We'll help you craft a compelling story that connects your past to your future, and shows hiring managers exactly why you're the right fit.
Tailor your resume and LinkedIn for your new target industry
Work together to update your resume and online presence to reflect the expectations of your target industry. From formatting and tone to highlighting transferable skills, your dedicated Career Advisor will help ensure you stand out in a competitive job market.
Build a tailored job search strategy designed around your timeline and bandwidth
Receive a job search plan tailored to your timeline, bandwidth, and priorities. Whether you need to job hunt on nights and weekends or take a phased approach, your Career Advisor will help you stay focused, organized, and accountable, without burning out.
Practice behavioral and technical interviews with mock interview sessions
From “Tell me about yourself” to technical whiteboarding, we've got you covered. You'll rehearse 1-on-1 with your Career Advisor to gain confidence, refine your responses, and prepare for the interviews that matter most in your new field.
What Our Graduates Are Saying
Brenda Gutierrez
Product Designer at Samsung Ads
[BrainStation] changed my life! I got offers from two big companies, I accepted one of them, and less than three months after finishing my Diploma, I started working for Samsung Ads as a Product Designer. I love where I am now in my career. I get to create meaningful and relevant experiences to make users' lives easier, every-single-day - it's the best job ever!
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Przemek Jalowski
UX/UI Designer at The Home Depot
It was nice to be back in a learning environment where you felt safe. I had the opportunity and the freedom to try, fail and grow. I made some great friends and it was a good community. I appreciated that sense of community and the chance at true collaboration.
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Mosope Adebowale
User Experience Designer at KPMG
I took a huge risk, and as I reflect on the past 12 weeks, was BrainStation worth it? Heck Yeah! With the knowledge I've acquired, I feel ready to take on the world of UX and solve complex problems affecting humans around the globe.
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Dorsa Giyahi
Product Designer at Wave HQ
I mainly chose BrainStation because of the community that they've built. Knowing about the community and all the different talented people really gave me a sense of security and confidence knowing that I'd had the opportunity to connect and learn from all of them. . . .
BrainStation made all the impact on my career; It was a huge springboard for me!
While there were a lot of late nights of hard work and a lot of work outside of class hours, BrainStation really opened the door and got my career started.
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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 bootcamp, you will earn a BrainStation UX Design Diploma, which can boost your LinkedIn profile and resume, helping aspiring UX designers stand out in the UX job market when starting a new career.
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What are the outcomes for UX Design bootcamp graduates?
Speak to a learning advisor to get more information about bootcamp graduate outcomes. We do not guarantee that graduates will get a job, but we are proud to have launched thousands of graduates' careers. We offer comprehensive Career Success programming and believe that students who invest both during and after the bootcamp will have the best outcomes.
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What payment options do you offer?
BrainStation offers some of the most competitive payment options for an online coding bootcamp, with a range of flexible payment plans.
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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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Monthly payment installments
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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 and tools such as Figma to develop a deep understanding of UX design concepts, including information architecture, prototyping and usability testing, user interface design, responsive design, app design, and more. Students then apply their learnings to complete two design sprints, three real-world projects (focused on an individual 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 UX Design certification?
BrainStation's UX Design bootcamps are an intensive learning experience 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 a fully realized mobile app and build a portfolio of completed projects. By the end of the UX bootcamp, you will have the skills, experience, and confidence needed to dive into a career in UX design.
BrainStation's UX Design certification course, on the other hand, is a flexible, professional development course offered part-time, over 4 or 8 weeks. Taught by industry experts, the UX Design certification 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 team 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?
As part of BrainStation's UX design bootcamps, our Career Success Team is dedicated to creating a learning experience that extends far beyond the classroom, providing a framework for success incorporating your background and learning goals, built on insights and input from technical recruiters, career coaches, BrainStation Educators, and alumni.
The team will provide career coaching to help you refine your UX design portfolio, connect you with industry professionals, prepare you for the career search and interview process, and showcase your design work to peers and hiring partners.