Designlab

I had a great UX Academy experience! I did the full-time schedule and treated it like a full-time job. I blocked my calendar daily from 9am-4pm and did the coursework to stay on track. I enjoyed using Slack to keep in touch with my cohort and liked the collaboration of my class. Attending group critiques were helpful and gave me a sense of ownership and accountability to my coursework/projects since I had to present them. The 1:1 mentoring sessions were also very helpful, not only to discuss the coursework and receive feedback; but I was able to ask a lot of questions about real-world situations and how clients do things. In my experience I think book examples are sometimes different then real-life client examples - so being able to discuss phases, roles, and deliverables based on my me...

Before attending Designlab's UX Academy, I was a freelance graphic designer. I wanted to deepen my skill set to differentiate myself from other graphic designers in my city, and be able to demand a higher paying job. I began to research UX design, and it sounded like the perfect blend of marketable technical skills and design that I was looking for. I liked that Designlab's UX Academy had a full curriculum already laid out for me, with a mentor, and that I would graduate with a portfolio of professional-level work. My favorite part of the program was my independent capstone project. I felt ownership over this project, and it was satisfying to create something that was my idea using the skills I had learned from the coursework.

After I completed the program, I was given a career ment...

My decision to pursue a career change with the help of DesignLab's UX academy was one of the best decision I have made in my life!

I felt that the course properly prepared me to take on an entry-level position in UX. The project-based coursework is solid, the readings insightful, and the mentors are world-class designers who are deeply interested in your growth as a UX designer.

I would not be where I am today if not for the UX Academy!

To be honest, the entry-level UX market is saturated, but if you work hard and take time to understand the fundamentals and can clearly explain the why behind your designs, you will be in a very good spot!

My advice to prospective students who are evaluating UX bootcamps, , write down a list of things you expect to get from the course and h...

I had a very positive experience with Designlab's UX Academy. I was switching careers into UX design after a career break, and went from starting UX Academy to having a full time job in less than 6 months.

It was helpful to have all coursework and lessons lined up for me (versus trying to figure it out on my own by sorting through tons of good and bad resources on the web). I felt it was a good balance of traditional lectures/readings with hands-on projects. My two favorite parts were the group crits and the mentorship. The group crits were great because I could create relationships with other people out in the world who were going through the same challenges. It made me feel like I wasn't alone in this big, daunting process. Finally, the best part: mentorship. At the end of the day...

I joined UX Academy after doing a lot of research into UX Design. Networking, reading, looking into formal university programs, to name just a few. I had actually come across blog piece written by Karen Cheng who enlightened me about bootcamp programs; she specifically mentioned Designlab also. That's when I started investigating further and knew this type of a program was perfect for me. The flexibility, the community, and guidance I would get as a student was incomparable. Not to mention learning things in a fast-paced environment to get myself out into the market to get real-world experience.

I would not trade in my experiences with UX Academy for anything. I met so many different people all around the world and was able to pick up concepts so quickly and easily. I would not have...

I signed up for UX Academy's full time track after completing a few of the short form DesignLab courses. I enjoyed the format of the shorter DesignLab courses, so I had an idea of what I'd be getting into with UXA. I also really liked the get a job guarantee. If there were no get a job or your money-back guarantee I would've hesitated to join the course.

My advice to anyone considering/starting the course:

1)Take one (or more) non-immersive courses to get your skills up to a baseline.
You should be fairly comfortable using your design software of choice before you start UXA.

2) Don't hesitate to ask the DL team for a new mentor if you feel that your current mentor is not a good fit.
When dealing with another person 1:1 there's always the risk that the other person's ...

I absolutely love DesignLab, I just finished my month studying design 101 and already signed up to start the typography class. The interface is great, you are given all the tools you need to do great work, having a mentor who is an actual professional is such a great asset too. I already learned so much in the span of a month and I can't wait to keep going on my design journey with the help of DesignLab.

I have taken two courses this year - Design 101 and Branding - and both have been packed with excellent material and attentive mentors. These courses are "short and broad"; a lot of ground is covered in just four weeks, but it gives you enough of a foundation to keep going on your own after they are over, and a completed project to put in your portfolio. Getting access to the mentors alone are worth the price of admission, and the staff supporting DesignLab behind the scenes care very much about student success and relationships. Both courses have been very positive experiences for me. I started taking these courses looking for a better career fit for my natural talents, and they have been immensely helpful in helping me discern how well I could fit into a design career. Overall, there ...

The sign-up and follow through is made so easy with DesignLad. I'd say the most important component is your mentor. The course takes several resources (e.g. articles, blogs, demonstrations) in a well designed manner and hands it to you in the order necessary to learn new design skills. Your mentor, someone successful at design gives you real life input, criticism, and guidance to improve your work. Version 1 and Version 2 of my submitted projects seemed like night and day. I'm incredibly happy with DesignLab and have already signed up for the UI course.

I was looking to learn the basics of web design, and the course helped me do just that. The real value of Designlab comes from meetings with your mentor and your mentors feedback on projects. You get 4 one hour skype calls plus unlimited feedback on as many versions of your projects you upload. I really is a lot of bang for your buck.

The UX course was chock full of helpful information that I found immediately applicable for my needs and those of my company. Definitely hands-on. I would recommend it for a range of people, including those who just want to bone up on the nomenclature, to those who have a project that has already started. The level of 'dive down' is completely up to you and GA does an excellent job of tailoring the amount of info to your needs.

(Actually I am not sure what Bootcamp I used and it's not clear from the communication. I did the UX/UI course)

I took up the course as part business owner and part designer.

My main objectives for joining the course were all met - how to layout sites to make them visually appealing, how to use font and colour to make the UI and UX interesting and engaging

The projects were relevant and flexible allowing me to work on both 'fixed' formats as well as flexible - choose your own subject ones. Its was very useful as this mix ensured learning and relevance.

The mentor was outstanding - he ensured that I not only got the relevant and timely feedback and support, but also explained things that were not very clear due to my non-photoshop background.

Finally, The designlab team's responses were always prompt and holistic - a rarity in today's online world!

Before joining Designlab, I already had some experience creating digital products, but I had no idea of how much I still needed to learn. I enrolled in UX Academy full time and even before I had finished my three months I got a job offer to work in The Netherlands, were I now live and work as a UX Designer (I'm from Mexico)!

The syllabus is very complete but for me the best was the interaction with mentors and other students. I was able to see my skills actively improve from one week to another and at the end of the project I had designed three projects from scratch using research, prototyping and testing.

Be ready to work and study a lot, try to immerse yourself into design and study mode as much as you can. Use slack and connect with other students and mentors to stay motivated...

Previously I had web design and coding experience as well, these are definitely should be mentioned as triggers to join this course.
I'm not a shy person, but I had some concerns before like how I'll get a job (is this really enough as a preparation), how the whole group learning will work out, if I get nice and helpful mentors, and so on. Altogether does this really worth it or am I just wasting my time.

At the beginning it was really shocking amount of hours we put inside the projects and everybody struggled to finish the projects in time. But later we got the rhythm together, and helped each other so we started to enjoy. Personally I liked every single bit of it, we got an equally balanced knowledge of theoretical and practical part of UX.

I think the whole course is a big ch...

I took this course thinking I would immediately or almost immediately enroll in the UX Academy. I took the DesignLab over Career Foundry for three reasons. First because it was U.S. based;second, the costs associated with the program; and three both offered abiliity to get a job withiin 6 mos. after enrolling. iI choose DesignLab because I liked what previous enrollees and/or students stated about the 1:1 mentorship and the diversity of the student and their feedback.

I signed up with Desgin101 since any past experience I had was way out of date as far as tools and i needed a refreshers. This course delivered on so many different levels. Rigourous is an understatement but this course was intense and baked a lot of what you read from week to week with projects to reinforce wh...

This is a four week class designed to give you an overview of what user experience design can entail. This course was more or less a pre-requisite for me to join Designlab's UX Academy, which I'm now participating. I had an outstanding experience and was thoroughly impressed and satisfied with the structure, content, and support offered. The online interface is easy and fun to use. That might not come as a surprise as a site teaching you UX but I think nailing the delivery of new concepts via remote learning online can still be hard. But Designlab really makes it easy. You are provided a mentor who you'll have up to four virtual sessions with (we had ours via google hangouts) and will guide your progress, give feedback on your work, and offer other thoughts and resources to help you lea...

My university doesn't facilitate non-graphic design students taking graphic design classes, so I needed to find another way. The small price-point ($300) including course material, projects, and mentor support convinced me that DesignLab would be a great option to at least get my design game off the ground.

The course material wasn't too challenging and the projects were interesting enough that it didn't take over my schedule, but kept me interested.

My mentor was super helpful in helping me to see what I didn't understand and where I needed more practice. I really appreciated her help.

The only downside of this course was it's super fast pace (4 weeks), but hey, it is a bootcamp. The plus side of this is that even after the end of the course my mentor is available to critique...

I have learned from many different platforms and this is one of the best and here is why

When you signup, a mentor will be assigned to you
You will be asked to schedule 4 mentor sessions
You will be introduced to the course with a nicely planned chapters (from introduction to mental models, content strategy, site maps, user flows, wireframes, design patterns...)
Then you will be learning the lessons within each chapter
Then you will be asked to do assignments and submit them
Your mentor will review the assignment and submit the feedback
You will either incorporate the feedback and submit the second version or you will discuss it during your weekly mentor session
By the time all chapters and assignments are complete you will have a feeling that you actually know that you have ...

This four week course is much more than bargained for. Coming in your assigned a mentor to review all submissions throughout the course. The course itself is structured in such a way that even with a busy schedule you'll find yourself reviewing past work and updating based on the new lessons you learned. The cohesive format allows you to learn the very basic of interaction design all the way down to the nuts and bolts and nuances that make the best designers. Project submissions are viewed by everyone so you get to compare your work to that of your classmates and see the design process of other designers first hand. Real world applications is taught throughout the life of the course reiterated by your mentor so at the end of 4 weeks you have the skills ranging from sitemaps, wireframes ...

Design 101 was my first introduction in visual design, typography, color theory, UI and UX. It was also my first time using Sketch, or any design application for that matter. The course gave me a great start. The reading materials and assignments provided me with a good beginners background. It was awesome to get quick feedback on my work from my mentor and have an hour a week to discuss design with a professional. I would highly recommend this course to any beginner.

I previously had zero design experience. My goal was to become familiar with the tools and concepts used by designers so that I would have a primitive foundation for creating attractive designs for my projects. What I found was that this course was much more than I bargained for. This course, as it turns out, covers almost nothing about using the tools themselves (although, they do provide tutorial resources for you to review independently). Designlab wanted to provide an experience and knowledge-base that couldn't be attained by merely scouring Youtube for a few hours. Their goal in this course is to walk you through true design theory and convey the principles that compose good design. Don't be discouraged if you don't have any technical experience because they structure the projects ...

I am currently in college studying for Graphic Design so I took this course to get more experience and learn more than just in the classroom. This course was so awesome, I loved the 1-on-1 Skype sessions with my mentor, she was so knowledgeable in designing. She was great with helping with each project and helped me see what I needed to fix and why, she also gave me great advice on what it looks like to be a professional graphic designer in the real world. I also enjoyed all the projects this course assigned, they were very thought provoking and really made me want to create something awesome. I loved DesignLab and will most likely be taking another course from them again! Highly recommend!

I remember when I just stumbled upon Design Lab, not thinking it would be that good, or similar to other online classes. But for some reason I had a feeling I should look into this. After doing some research I decided to try out the Design 101 class of which I am so glad I did! I would highly recommend it!! The platform is easy to understand, the readings are great, and the mentors are wonderful! Honestly, in my opinion, there are no cons with taking this course through Design Lab. I have learned a lot and I am thinking about taking more classes from them in the future.

Although the idea of the "Design 101" course is a good one, I was disappointed but the quality of the material. The whole course seemed like a collection of articles picked from all over the Internet, therefore no original content. Some of the examples used were outdated and at times, the course didn't seem to follow a logical line. I see students saying they learned a great deal about visual design and I don't understand why since the material was almost exclusively about web design/ UX design. I wouldn't recommend this course unless you want to pay for links that you wouldn't be able to find on your own on the web.

I would like to begin by saying that the cost of this course is phenomenal vis a vis to what I've learned and covered in just four weeks. Designlab takes you by the hand from the early definition of UX strategy and research, how to do proper UX research, methodologies, concepts, all up to the landing page of your potential project. I couldn't thank the team that put this together enough. The course was really well thought out, very organized, and systematic with never a dull moment! My mentor was excellent. Karin Schmidlin taught me in such a short span of time how to ask the proper questions and seek the proper research method. She also helped me in creating my UX portfolio, which I am very grateful for that. If I were to suggest something, it would be that Designlab students get the o...

I took Design 101 online and it definitely taught me a lot about the basics of visual design. The sequence of the topics was appropriate. What I loved best about it was it didn't feel like an online course. We had multiple projects (1-3) each week after reading the lessons, and it helped us put theory into practice. The feedback and mentoring sessions with my mentors were awesome too because I got to pick his brain about stuff and he gave me a ton of good resources which I probably wouldn't have found on my own. Sometimes it felt like I was happy with the design and my mentor would point out something which could be improved on and it totally made sense. For the price I paid to what I got I feel like it was soooo worth it. Just make sure you have the time to actually do the course, the ...

I just completed the Design 101 Course and was sad that it was over. I've attempted multiple design courses online from other sites only to find that the interface was not exciting and the course itself felt daunting and cumbersome. I quickly became either bored or burnt out and was not able to complete the 6-8 week sessions.

When I fell upon DesignLab, I was reaching an article about a woman who changed her career direction by completely immersing herself in self-learning. She made the comment "if I had courses like DesignLab back when I was learning, it would have made it much easier." The website was way more engaging than other course sites and actually looked fun. I reviewed the courses and saw that they were broken down into manageable chunks and spread over around 6 weeks. T...

Designlab provided exactly what I was looking for, an overview into the UI/UX design practice. While I have interacted with all of the stages of the design process throughout my career, it was helpful to get a true understanding of the inputs and outcomes I am looking for. The mentorship was very helpful in providing real life examples putting the process into practice.

As an experienced researcher interested in UX research, I wanted to immerse myself in UX vernacular and practices. The DesignLab curriculum delivered both in an easy to digest format and the weekly mentor sessions were great for questions along the way.

For the price I paid I'm very satisfied with the course. It was inexpensive and opened a door to user interface design that I wouldn't have found otherwise. It's definitely an overview though, not like I could leave saying I'm a UI/UX designer, but that's the point; it's an overview. I plan on diving deeper into UI/UX and this course has helped push me into the right direction.