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 Money-Back Guarantee (see details) — both online and on our beautiful Seattle campus at WeWork’s 1411 4th Ave location.
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 on real client projects and graduate with a unique portfolio to share with future employers.
Change careers with confidence with our Money-Back Guarantee. If you graduate, follow our proven job search process, and don’t secure a job within 6 months, we’ll refund your tuition in full (see details).
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 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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Navigate tech's top opportunities with the help of our Career Services team
At Flatiron School, you won’t just learn UX/UI. You’ll also learn how to be an effective job seeker and no-brainer tech hire. 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.
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 Services team and our tried-and-true job search framework, you’ll gain the skills and support you need to launch your career as a UX/UI designer.
Design a career you love
After graduation, our students have gone on to impact powerful positive change and contribute meaningfully at leading companies across the globe.
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 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 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 Thoughtworks and as an independent consultant, she worked on service, software, and product design in the aerospace, retail, healthcare, and data management industries.
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
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Dedicated to making our programs more accessible, we offer competitive financing options through Skills Fund and Climb, two industry-leading accelerated learning financing companies.
Pay Upfront
Full Tuition
$15,800
ISA
Flatiron School Income Share Agreement
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.
Join us on campus
| Cohort Start Date | Status |
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| Aug 19, 2019 – Feb 14, 2020 | Closing Soon – |
| Sep 30, 2019 – Mar 27, 2020 | Open – |
| Nov 11, 2019 – May 8, 2020 | Open – |
| Jan 6, 2020 – Jun 19, 2020 | Open – |
| Feb 10, 2020 – Jul 31, 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!
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