Learn UX research online for beginners in our self-paced, UX research course online
We help you land 6-figure UX job research offers in 7 months or mentor you 1:1 till you get it.
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Other UX research courses online 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.
This is just not affordable but it’s also accessible for recent grads, working moms, gig workers, and part-time or full-time professionals.
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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 UX research course online 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 pay your tuition over a 12-18 month period. Learn more about tuition prices and financing options below.
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Book a 30-minute “design therapy” session with Samaya (details below) to learn about UX career paths and see if this is the right UX bootcamp for you in the first place. You will earn a $450 tuition discount after the call to go towards your tuition payments.
Course cost: $4950
Payment Plans: After registering for the course, you can pay the remainder of the tuition in one lump sum, 3 monthly installments of $1650, or consider financing options that will help you pay off the tuition in 12-18 months.
Helping women make bank on a daily basis 💰
You need this course if…
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You might have browsed free UI and UX events and YouTube sessions or even taken a UI UX workshop or Google UX certification. You might even be a seasoned academic researcher, therapist, or graphic designer, but you are looking to fill gaps in your knowledge about UI design/UX design and UX research.
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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 or UI designer to hiring managers.
Here’s HOW we help you land 6-figure UX research job offers in 7 months or coach you till you get it.
60-minute, 1 on 1 design therapy sessions per module ⏱️
Get help from your dedicated UX mentor each module 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, at times you are seeking more tactical advice.
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 UI UX design bootcamp. 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 coaching 🎓
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.
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 by both quantitative and qualitative research.
Feel confident enough to start your own business or side hustle 📃
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 to ensure at least a 70-80% success rate.
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.
$47,750
Graduates’ average salary growth after UI/UX bootcamp completion. On average, they increase salaries by 1.8X.
Curriculum: Learn UX research online in 14 modules within the best UX research course
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Module 1: Choose a project topic
Class: Choose a project topic. Walk through an overview of UI design and UX design thinking and design processes 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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Module 2: Discovery interviews
Class: Learn UX research methods to help you identify key user experience 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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Module 3: Synthesize interview data
Class: Translate your research findings into actionable user experience 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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Module 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 and business models.
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Module 5: Learn about user testing
Class: Test your prototype with 5 users and re-iterate your concept based on user feedback.
Deliverables: 5 Usability Testing Sessions, User Testing Guide.
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Module 6: Midterm 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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Module 7: 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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Module 8: 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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Module 9: 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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Module 10: 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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Module 11: Prototyping & accessibility
Class: Combine your concepts into a testable, presentable prototype and get user feedback.
Deliverables: Clickable Prototype
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Module 12: 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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Module 13: 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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Module 14: 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 learn how to talk through your work.
Deliverables: Resume the first draft. Apply to 20 UX jobs.
Prepare yourself for senior and management-level UX research roles.
Those who have taken our UX research course online have gone on to manage teams, manage products, and lead UI UX 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 help you with your vision!
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.
Build and scale unique design system
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.
This is applicable even as your brand changes and your product goes through multiple iterations. As a UX researcher, you will have to collaborate with designers who do this type of work.
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.
Course Costs & Deadlines
Tuition
$4,950
Installment Plan
$1,650
3 monthly payments (billed monthly)
You can pay the tuition in either one lump sum or 3 monthly installments.
What students are saying about the the UX UI design bootcamp.
“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
Watch the info session before you enroll in your personalized, online UI/UX bootcamp 🖊️
Watch this info session to learn more about the program and receive a $490 discount for your enrollment.
