Learn the user experience, technical, client service, and practical skills necessary to launch a successful career as a user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) designer in just 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) online and on our beautiful Seattle campus, located at WeWork.
At 24 weeks, we’re the most robust UX/UI course, because we know becoming a successful designer takes dedicated practice and has no shortcuts.
Six weeks are spent working on real projects for live clients, so you’ll leave the course with a portfolio full of tangible work experience.
Partner with our Career Services and get a job in 6 months — or your money back (see details). Work 1:1 with a career coach on resume review, interview prep, and an employer pipeline.
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 allows students to study online for the first 12 weeks, and then join in person for team-based design and client projects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Flatiron School puts students and teaching first, which is why we’re the only digital design school in Seattle that provides a money-back guarantee (see details). As you compare different schools, we encourage you to ask about outcomes reports, money-back guarantees, and career services — these are the key differentiators that matter most.
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Over five years of working with passionate students and helping more than 1,500 graduates launch fulfilling careers in tech, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After graduation, our students in the Designation-powered design course have gone on to impact powerful positive change and contribute 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.”
Dedicated to making our programs more accessible, we offer competitive financing options through Skills Fund and Climb, two industry-leading accelerated learning financing companies.
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.
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.
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, creating a richer learning environment for everyone involved. All that you need is passion and an open mind.
Apply to the course. Tells us about yourself and why you want to start a career in UX/UI.
Speak with a member of the Admissions team about your interests and ambitions.
Receive your acceptance decision from Admissions. This usually happens within a couple of days, and would be your final step!
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.
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.
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.
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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