Design your career for $0 upfront tuition
Learn the visual, technical, and client service skills essential to launch a successful career as a UX or UI designer. Flatiron School’s online course combines an industry-leading digital design program with dedicated Career Services support, full-time or part-time course pacing, and innovative financing options (learn more).
Whether you choose a full-time or part-time schedule, our online UX/UI course offers the same rigor as the in-person experience.
Work on real client projects and graduate with a unique portfolio to share with future employers.
Change careers with confidence. Focus on learning the skills to launch a new career, not on how to pay for it, with flexible payment options (learn more).
Free WeWork desk space for 1 year
Connect and collaborate in-person with other students. Build your professional network while you work in a beautiful, energizing space with a one-year WeWork hot desk membership included with your tuition — valued up to $7,200 per year.
Specialize in User Experience (UX) or User Interface (UI) Design
When you enroll, you’ll choose the track that best suits you — UX or UI. Our admissions team is happy to discuss this decision with you. You can also explore Intro to Careers in Design to learn more about how these disciplines vary and where they’ll take you.
UX designers focus on the user journey, designing how users interact with products or services. UX designers define a digital product’s optimal experience to ensure it’s engaging and user friendly.
UI designers define the look and feel of a product, application, or website while considering optimal ease of use. UI designers optimize for varied functionalities, and contexts using branding, color, images, and typography.
Course Pace Options
We offer two course pace options designed to give you the flexibility and structure to support your success. As a Flatiron School student, you’ll receive individual support from instructors and access to virtual study groups for a personalized learning experience. Choose the program pace option that best suits your life, schedule, and career goals.
In both pacing options, you’ll build your work portfolio with team-based design projects for real-world clients.m
Graduate in 6 months with the accelerated course pace: full-time. Expect 40–60+ hours per week of coursework. Benefit from dedicated, full-time learning. This option requires the most commitment – you’ll attend live study groups, complete group projects, and collaborate with others in your cohort throughout the day.
Graduate in 11 months at a pace that offers the same curriculum as the full-time program. Expect 20-30+ hours per week of coursework and benefit from a structured, yet flexible, schedule designed to keep you on track. During the client phase, you’ll invest considerable time to successfully complete group projects.
A fast-track career curriculum that will help you land a job in the field of design.
Our online UX/UI design courses are taught by industry experts and combine flexible online learning with a team-based experience.
Online UX/UI Design is divided into five phases. You’ll learn at a part-time pace in phase one, regardless of your selected course pace. After phase one, you’ll join your choice of a full-time or part-time cohort for team-based design and client projects.
For the UX track, Phase 2-5, all projects are group based. For the UI track, Phase 3-5, projects are group based.
This means you’ll work like a real design team member to get the project done - divide responsibilities and tasks or project manage deliverables. Technical training, bundled with apprenticeship-style project work and personalized career coaching, creates an experience that’s designed to help you become a highly sought-after UX or UI designer.
Full-Time & Part-Time students learn together on a part-time schedule for 6 weeks .
Phase 1 introduces the design process quickly, while covering the foundations of UX research, UX design, interaction design, visual design, UI design, and user testing. Design Essentials meets the needs of students coming to the program at any level of design experience, including those with no design background.
Successful completion of Phase 1 is required to move on to the remainder of the program.
What to expect:
Learn the fundamentals of UX, IxD, IA and UI design
Complete weekly assignments, online meetings, readings, and quizzes
Full-Time: 6 weeks Part-Time: 12 weeks
Phase 2 provides a thorough exposure to your chosen track— UX or UI — while developing your proficiency in industry-standard software and best practices. Work 1:1 with instructors who are professional designers and creative directors.
What to expect:
Learn how to put team-based design into practice
Complete weekly assignments, online meetings, readings, and quizzes
Collaborate in weekly meetings with instructors for regular feedback and dialogue
Full-time: 5 weeks Part-time: 10 weeks
This phase is about teamwork, an essential soft skill for successful designers. Phase 3 focuses on important features of professional practice and team-based design, along with the vital skills of analyzing and synthesizing work. Each portion of this phase is set up as a sprint, so teams know how much work needs to be done before the next sprint review, and how to budget their time to accomplish it all.
What to expect:
Learn how to put team-based design into practice with a real-word project
Attend 1:1 check-ins, presentations, and feedback with instructors
Full-time: 4 weeks Part-time: 8 weeks* *Part-time students should be aware that this phase requires significant synchronous group work time.
In Phase 4, also known as the Client Phase, you’ll apply the hard and soft skills acquired in the first portion of the program: designers work with real clients on live products. Design teams publicly discuss their work and process through multiple presentations to their clients. UX teams hand off annotated wireframes for UI designers and UI teams create style guides for front-end developers to take over.
The best part: You’ll graduate with a unique portfolio of real client, team-based work to share with prospective employers.
What to expect:
Learn how to solve real design problems with real business stakeholders
Redefine deliverables, build product roadmaps, and receive client feedback
Graduate with a unique portfolio to share with future employers
Full-time: 3 weeks Part-time: 6 weeks
Phase 5 is focused on getting your design portfolio ready and preparing for job hunting. As the final phase of our program, it is built specifically to give you the tools and confidence to find a job — while reinforcing the unique design process you defined earlier in the program. It requires a shift for every designer: from learning how to be a designer to learning how to tell the story of your growth as a designer.
What to expect:
Create case studies, portfolio development, résumé building, and much more
Hold client conversations and mock interviews also happen during this phase
Navigate tech's top opportunities with the help of our Career Coaching team
Flatiron School’s Career Coaching and Employer Partnerships team provide students unparalleled one-on-one support before, during, and after the job search.
We wrote the book on how to get a job after a bootcamp — literally.
During your job search, you’ll meet weekly with your dedicated career coach. Coaches help with everything from résumé review to interview prep, and help you tell your story to get the job you want.
Change careers with confidence thanks to our Money-Back Guarantee. If you graduate, follow our job search process, and don’t secure a job within 6 months, we’ll refund your tuition in full (see details).
We’ve built relationships with hiring managers at top companies across the nation, creating a robust employer pipeline for Flatiron School grads. Our Employer Partnerships team is constantly evangelizing our grads and helping you get in the door.
Through 1:1 guidance from our Career Coaching team and our tried-and-true job-search framework, you’ll gain the skills and support you need to launch your career.
Design a career you love
After graduation, our students have gone on to impact powerful, positive change and contribute at leading companies across the globe. Now, it’s your turn to launch a career in design.
“I was lucky to be surrounded by hard working who pushed each other to be better. It felt like everyone really cared about their projects, and no one was ever satisfied with an easy solution. We weren’t afraid to challenge each other, which was awesome.”
“Having the ability to develop real projects for real clients makes the experience more than just a school—it makes it like an internship. I was able to have real world experience juggling my design workload, client needs, and team relationships.”
Meet the experts behind our UX/UI program
Joe TA’ed on Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. He built the university’s iOS course before coming to Flatiron School to lead our Education team.
Ian’s a Flatiron alumnus who’s taught programming to hundreds of students, both in person and online. He loves empowering students to solve problems through code.
Flatiron School online alumnus. After 10 years as a financial planner, he decided to transition to a new career and completed the online program in under 4 months. Now he is helping shape tomorrow’s software engineers.
Making education accessible
Loan
Full-Time, finance for as low as
$413/mo
(for 36 months + $1.5K deposit)
Part-Time, finance for as low as
$327/mo
(for 36 months + $1.5K deposit)
Dedicated to making our programs more accessible, we offer competitive financing options through Skills Fund and Climb, two industry-leading accelerated learning financing companies. Available only to those who qualify.
Pay Upfront
Full-Time Program
$15,000
Part-Time Program
$15,000
Can be paid in 10 monthly installments.
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Flatiron School Online Income Share Agreement — Available for Part-Time and Full-Time Courses
You can now defer your full-time or part-time online tuition with the Flatiron School Income Share Agreement, available in select states. There is no deposit required when you enroll, and the remainder of your tuition is paid once you’ve left the program and are earning a minimum income of $3,333.33 per month, annualized to $40,000 per year.
Join us on campus
| Cohort Start Date | Status |
|---|---|
| Sep 9, 2019 – Jul 17, 2020 | Closing Soon – |
| Sep 30, 2019 – Aug 7, 2020 | Open – |
| Sep 30, 2019 – Mar 27, 2020 | Open – |
| Oct 21, 2019 – Aug 28, 2020 | Open – |
| Oct 21, 2019 – Apr 17, 2020 | Open – |
What the application process looks like
Design aptitude is built from an innate curiosity about the world and how people interact with it. We don’t admit students, we craft a class: a lawyer, chef, biologist, and artist will approach solutions differently, and bringing them together creates a richer learning environment for everyone involved. All you need is passion and an open mind.
Submit your application. Share a bit about yourself and what’s driving you to start a career in design.
Meet a member of our Admissions team about elaborate on your interests and ambitions.
Receive your acceptance decision from Admissions. This usually happens within a couple days, and would be your final step!
When you enroll, you’ll choose the track that best suits you – UX or UI. Our admissions team is happy to discuss this decision with you.
Frequently asked questions
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