Designlab

Pros. - the course lessons would be my number 1 choice. it was easy to understand each content and supported each lessons with reference images and extra information or links to dive in deeper. - providing estimate time on each course lesson / assignment... Read More would take helps managing your time. - able to work on your pace. does not need to wait for approval from the mentor on each unit. - submitting assignment and receiving feedback helped to improve the work and learn mistakes cons. - the last unit has to be unlocked by the mentor in order to move on and depending on the pace / situation, there could be a wait time for the mentor to approve.

DesignLab is completely remote and self-paced, which provides a lot of flexibility but also requires a lot of self-discipline. I definitely had to accompany my experience with a lot of self-learning and seek out volunteer or other freelance opportunities... Read More on my own. I had a mentor switch in the middle of my program, which I felt was extremely helpful in my education. My second mentor definitely pushed me more and was more constructive in providing feedback and guiding me. I do recommend this Bootcamp for people who are proactive and are able to find other project opportunities on their own.

I went into this course with very little design experience but had a very helpful mentor that gave me excellent feedback and am now in UX Academy. I do wish there was more videos and some info was dated which required me to look for tutorials and resources... Read More outside of the course. I think as long as you have a good mentor, you're in good hands.

Pros: - Gives students a structured curriculum for the BASICS of what they should be learning to transition into UX Design. - Strong community of motivated learners and mentors that you can build support networks around. - I think mentorship is the biggest... Read More pro to DesignLab, the quality of the mentor makes a huge difference in your learning. - Half the price of many other bootcamps! Cons: - Although mentorship is the biggest pro to DesignLab, the matching can be hit or miss so it's up to you to fight for a quality mentor. - The readings and exercises for me were sometimes just busy work and not all that productive. But this is a personal pref. - No bootcamp will ever teach you everything you need to know, so it's still up to you to go out and deep dive into what you want to know. - Career Services is great, I don't think a lot of the rqeuired curriculum is super necessary, the best part of it is the career coach mentorship.

I felt at times it could be repetitive especially with the mirroring projects. It would have been nice to maybe incorporate how to make certain things that way students can nail that. For example, how to align things or create buttons. I like the support... Read More we had as well from my mentor and from Designlab as a whole.

I took the UX Academy Foundations and managed to finish it in about 6 weeks (mostly full-time, but part-time at the end). Overall, I would say that the course was well structured and great at explaining different UI concepts to beginners like me. There... Read More were a lot of projects(E.g. Reproducing websites, designing your own landing page, etc) and I learned a lot from them. The best thing was being able to call my mentor once a week to discuss certain things I wasn't sure of. I thought that my mentor was supportive and helpful. One thing to note is that some people may feel that they are not compatible with the initial mentor assigned to them. The good thing is that you can choose to change your mentor if that happens. If you are considering taking this course, time management will be key to finishing it.

Pros: -Very easy website to navigate, visually appealing. This may not be important to everyone but to me, it really impacts my ability to focus and stay motivated -A lot of information but doesn't feel overwhelming. They do an amazing job of segmenting... Read More info so it's easy to check off items as you go and feel your progress. The units are broken down into small lessons and projects so you can regulate yourself and take breaks every 15 min very easily without losing your place -Fantastic mentorship program. I had a great experience with my mentor -Very good content. I spoke to someone in the field and they were impressed by how much I've learned in just a foundational course.

I wasn't sure which course/boot camp to choose from when I decided to switch my career from Digital Marketing and I don't regret that I started with the Foundations! It showed me that DesignLab is great and very professional and I just enrolled in UX... Read More academy too! But it gave me the extra time not even to realize if UX/IU is for me but also time to decide where I want to invest my money and time. Everything was very well organized before the course and during as well. I did have to ask for switching my mentor but it was only because of their time availability and the fact I had a vacation planned before I enrolled and my mentor wasn't that responsive. DL Team acted very quickly and paired me with an amazing mentor afterward - even with someone having some career background I asked for! I want to have the same mentor in UX Academy too, that's how well the second pairing went. The curriculum is very demanding if you want to dive deep in and because I loved that I did. I feel it helped me to learn with Figma a lot and there is also an option to do the same with Sketch. (I didn't yet because of the time issues, but you have access forever so you can study the tutorials later as I'm planning to do so). Foundations are very much about the final stage of UX/UI but you can get a great picture if you have that talent in you and you like designing or not at all.

When I originally started researching UX design courses I was given 3 recommendations by someone working in the industry. Designlab offered the most flexibility of those recommendations which was very important to me as I was working full time. I dug... Read More a little deeper and signed up for some of their seminars to learn more. I really liked what I was hearing and one of the videos I watched was an interview of a DL alumni who worked at a company I really wanted to work at. The course is tough and it covered a lot of information in a relatively short period of time. It wasn't easy but it definitely was rewarding since I actually was able to land a job at that company a couple weeks before I even graduated! Designlab will give you the tools you need to get a job in the UX field and there's a good amount of flexibility in both time involvement and level of personal investment in the program. I never needed the job support portion but it's there and I had no doubt they would help me get a job if I didn't go and do it myself.

I went into this course knowing little to nothing about it except that I wanted to break into this field. The course was admittedly kind of light but it had everything I needed to get me going. The mentor program was probably what I was stressing about... Read More the most but in the end of the day I knew I needed it the most. I have a hard time reaching out to he people for help but removing that friction and assigning someone really was a step in the right direction for me. So glad I took the plunge. There are worse ways to spend your money out there, spending it on this lightweight course to see if you have what it takes is by far one of the better means.