UX/UI Design

UX/UI Design
in Seattle

Seattle
NYC Austin Seattle London
  • Learn the skills to get a job in as little as 6 months with our industry-leading User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design curriculum
  • Change careers with confidence with support from our Dedicated Career Services & Tuition-back Guarantee (See Details)
  • Graduate with a portfolio of real-world client work

    • Apply today to join the most comprehensive design program focused exclusively on UX/UI design.

Location
Seattle
NYC Austin Seattle London
Overview

Design your future today

Learn the research, client management, technical, and practical skills necessary to launch a successful career as a user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) designer in 24 weeks. Flatiron School’s immersive course combines the world’s leading digital design program with our best-in-class Career Services team and Tuition-back Guarantee (see details) — both online and on our beautiful Seattle campus at WeWork’s 1411 4th Ave location.

900+ Hours of Training

At 24 weeks, our UX/UI course is the most immersive, because we know becoming a successful designer takes dedicated practice and has no shortcuts.

Work With Real Clients

Work on real client projects, and graduate with a portfolio full of tangible work experience.

Tuition-Back Guarantee

Partner with our Career Services and get a job in six months — or your money back (see details).

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Curriculum

Non-stop creating for 24 weeks

Our 24-week, innovative course is taught by industry veterans and combines flexible online learning (in Design Essentials) with an immersive on-campus experience (for the Immersive, Client, and Career Services phases). Technical training, paired with apprenticeship-style project work and personalized career coaching, creates an experience that’s designed to shape you into a sought-after UX or UI Designer.

Broken into two 12-week phases, this hybrid learning model lets you study online for the first phase and then join the second phase in person for team-based design and client projects.

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Design Essentials — Online, Part-Time

Design Essentials was purposefully created to meet the needs of those coming to the program at any level of design experience, including people with no design background. It introduces the design process quickly, while covering the foundations of UX research, UX design, interaction design, visual design, UI design, and user testing.

Successful completion of Design Essentials is required to move on to the remaining 18 weeks of the program. Students will receive feedback and guidance from instructors at this stage to determine successful completion.

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What to expect:

  • Learn the fundamentals of UX, IxD, IA and UI design
  • Decide which track to focus on — either UX or UI — at the end of the 6 weeks
  • Weekly assignments, online meetings, readings, and quizzes

Virtual Phase — Online, Full-Time

The six-week Virtual Phase starts immediately after Design Essentials. The main objective of this phase is for designers to experience a more intense, thorough look at their track of choice while becoming proficient in industry-standard software and best practices. In this phase, students have the opportunity to work 1:1 with instructors who are professional designers and creative directors.

What to expect:

  • Learn how to put team-based design into practice
  • Weekly assignments, online meetings, readings, and quizzes
  • Mandatory weekly meetings with instructors for regular feedback and dialogue

Immersion Phase — On-Campus, Full-Time

This phase of the course is about teamwork, the essential ingredient of being a successful designer. As the first in-person phase, Immersion ties in important features of professional practice and team-based design, along with the vital skills of analyzing and synthesizing work. Each of the five weeks of the 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 – now in person and with a live client
  • In-person check-ins, presentations and feedback with instructors
  • 40–50+-hour weekly commitment

Client Phase — On-Campus, Full-Time

The Client Phase is when students put into practice the hard and soft skills accumulated over the first 17 weeks 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 — because each client project is specific for each cohort, students graduate with unique portfolios only they can 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 prospective employers

Career Phase — On-Campus, Full-Time

The Career Phase is the one part of the program that’s explicitly about communication instead of design. As the final phase of our program, it is built specifically to give you the tools and confidence — while reinforcing the unique design process you defined earlier in the program — you need to find a job. 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
  • Studio visits, alumni panels, hiring manager panels, and mock interviews also happen during this phase
  • 30–40-hour weekly commitment
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Flatiron School vs. Other Seattle UX/UI Schools

Invest in your future

We put students and teaching first, which is why we’re the only digital design school in Seattle that provides a Tuition-back Guarantee (see details). As you compare different schools, we encourage you to ask about outcomes reports, tuition-back guarantees, and career services — these are the key differentiators that matter most.

Flatiron School
General Assembly
Seattle School of Visual Concepts
Course Name
UX/UI Design
User Experience Design Immersive
UI/Visual Design for
Digital Certificate Program
Tuition
$15,800
$13,950
$7,185
Length
24 Weeks
10 Weeks
50 Weeks
On-Campus or Remote
Both
On-Campus
On-Campus
Career Services
Money-Back Guarantee (see details)
Design your future with the help of our Career Services team
Career Services

Design your future with the help of our Career Services team

Over five years of working with passionate students and helping more than 1,500 graduates launch fulfilling tech careers, we’ve developed a keen understanding of what goes into getting that first job. With one-on-one career coaching, a robust employer network, and a proven job search framework, our Career Services team is committed to helping you land the job you want.  

Individual Career Coaching

During the job-search phase, you’ll meet with a dedicated coach every week, to ensure an effective job search via resume review, mock interviews, and developing the right job-search collateral to tell your story.

Job-Search Framework

At Flatiron School, you won’t just learn how to design, you’ll also learn how to be an effective job seeker. Through one-on-one guidance from our Career Services team and our tried-and-true job search framework, you’ll launch your first UX/UI job and retain the job-search skills for future advancements down the road.

Vast Employer Network

For over six years, our Employer Partnerships team has been developing relationships with hiring partners across the country to help Flatiron School grads get in the door. Our dedicated Employer Partnerships team is the best in the industry — constantly evangelizing for our graduates at companies across the world.

Deferred Tuition

After you’ve been admitted and enroll you’ll pay a $2,000 deposit and then tuition becomes due once you get a job/start earning income.

Become a Designer in Seattle

After graduation, our students have gone on to impact powerful positive change and contribute meaningfully at leading companies in Seattle and across the globe.

“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.”

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Meet your design mentors and instructors

Our instructors are experienced, passionate, and, most of all, invested in your success. At Flatiron School, you’ll learn from full-time, seasoned teachers who provide both the hard and soft skills you’ll need to succeed.

  • Joshua Robinson

    Joshua Robinson

    Lead Instructor

    Joshua is a product designer for Centro, a modern digital media buying agency, who began his career in online publishing and has a passion for music and artistic community. He’s driven by design’s ability to organize and make sense of information, and he believes designers are best suited to maximize the potential of new technology.

  • Chelsea Lee

    Chelsea Lee

    Lead Instructor

    Chelsea lives and breathes design and is eager to share that enthusiasm with others. Her background in graphic design and book arts led her to UX design. In her time at Thoughtworksand as an independent consultant, she worked on service, software, and product design in the aerospace, retail, healthcare, and data management industries.

  • Patrick DiMichele

    Patrick DiMichele

    Lead Instructor

    Patrick designs for impact; using collaborative and inclusive processes to enable positive, real-world outcomes. He’s a cofounder of the design studio Goodmaker and has led highly-successful design practices and programs for Fortune 500 companies, global consultancies, and a range of healthcare, education, and nonprofit organizations.

Tuition, Start Dates & Admission

Find the right financing plan for you

Loan
Finance for as low as
$
380/mo

Dedicated to making our programs more accessible, we offer competitive financing options through Skills Fund and Climb, two industry-leading accelerated learning financing companies.

Full Tuition
$
15,800
ISA

Deposit: $2,000
Total tuition: $22,700

With an Income Share Agreement, you pay nothing toward your tuition until after you’ve graduated and accepted your first job offer. You don’t pay until you’re earning income. All we need is a refundable deposit before class begins to lock in your seat.

Scholarships

As a part of our ongoing effort to support diversity in tech, Flatiron School is pleased to offer various scholarships to qualified women, minorities, and veterans, as well as merit-based scholarships. Schedule a Q&A with our Admissions team to hear more about our open scholarships.

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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.

Step 1 → Apply

Apply to the course. Tells us about yourself and why you want to start a career in UX/UI.

Step 2 → Admissions Interview

Speak with a member of the Admissions team about your interests and ambitions.

Step 3 → Admissions Decision

Receive your acceptance decision from Admissions. This usually happens within a couple of days, and would be your final step!

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FAQ

You have questions; we have answers

  • What jobs are graduates prepared for?

    On the UX side, depending on the designer’s interests: UX designer, UX researcher, and interaction designer. On the UI side, depending on the designer’s interests: UI designer, visual designer, and communication designer. The skills gained during this course form a partial but important foundation for additional roles like content strategist, information architect, UX writer, UI engineer, product designer, and product owner.

    In terms of job types, graduates are prepared for full-time salaried and part-time jobs, internships, apprenticeships, and contract and contract-to-hire roles.

  • When does a designer select UX or UI as their area of focus?

    In Week 5 of Design Essentials. By that point, every designer is exposed to principles and practices of UX and UI, and has enough information about their skills and interest in both areas to choose one. Additionally, the mandatory one-on-one with the Design Essentials instructor helps provide external perspective on the decision.

  • What are the professional backgrounds of designers in the course?

    Just about every profession has been represented among graduates of Designation’s curriculum: Lawyers, chefs, ballet dancers, baristas, options traders, architects, preschool teachers, biologists, and many, many others. Any professional experience focused on practicing the soft skills needed for a design career — teamwork, customer service, research, storytelling, client management, project management, creative thinking, a desire to learn — is pretty easily transferable to this course. And any past experience with design helps even more, but some of our most successful graduates had no design experience before applying.

  • What qualities does a strong UX/UI design student possess?

    There are a lot of qualities practiced frequently, if not perpetually, by designers in the program. Having a growth mindset is the number-one quality, and which best prepares all designers in the industry for a successful career. Iterative learning, problem-solving, measuring self-growth, asking intuitive questions, dealing with failure, adapting to change and pivots, analyzing insights, and synthesizing data are all practiced heavily. Experience on teams, in customer service, with creative thinking, with time and project management, and with constructive criticism are very valuable. Good communication — interpersonal, verbal, presentational, and written — is a necessary part of success. And showing up on time, being open to new ideas, staying healthy, and keeping a sense of humor are just as important.

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Start your application for the UX/UI Design program and design your creative career today.

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