In this unit you’ll learn the importance of establishing a visual language through design systems, in working toward a high fidelity screen. You’ll also understand how brand platforms communicate a company’s mission, promise, personality, and attributes.

Topics Covered:

• Intro to design systems
• Understanding brand platforms
• Creating your product’s brand platform
• Creating logos

As any designer will tell you, prototyping can identify problems and validate design decisions. Animations can also help improve design, playing a role on both a high-screen level and a granular level. In this unit, you’ll build a clickable prototype and learn how to use animation and interaction best practices. You’ll also turn your focus to exploring AI tools to bring prototypes to life.

Topics Covered:

• Building a prototype
• Designing animations and interactions
  Prototyping tools for AI-based systems
  Prototyping a machine-learning feature

After building a prototype, you’ll learn how to set up and facilitate usability test sessions, and synthesize your findings to determine
if you need to redesign your prototype. Continuing your AI discovery, you’ll learn how to adjust traditional usability techniques to effectively evaluate AI-driven interfaces.

Topics Covered:

• Conducting usability tests
• Remote usability testing
• Moderated and unmoderated usability testing
• Synthesizing test findings
• Prototype iteration
• Other evaluative user research methods
• Google Analytics for designers
• A/B testing
• Adapting traditional usability testing tools for AI systems

Style guides ensure standards are consistent and uniform across platforms, including websites, mobile apps, and marketing collateral. In this unit, you’ll learn about different parts of a style guide.

Topics Covered:

Fundamentals of building a style guide
Color palettes
Fonts
Iconography
Designing UI elements
Photography and imagery

Once you have your style guide sorted out and a series of wireframes to work with, it’s time to create high-fidelity mockups
of your design. However, this doesn’t just mean making your designs look beautiful (which you’ll do — don’t worry!); it also means making your designs accessible and inclusive so that everyone can use your product.

Topics Covered:

• Designing for accessibility
• Defining your grid
• Designing high-fidelity screens
• Designing efficiently with tools
• Critique and feedback

As a UI/UX designer, you’ll be in frequent communication with developers. This unit will teach you how to effectively navigate this special relationship, reduce friction, and learn to speak their coding language.

Topics Covered:

• Collaborating and communicating with developers
• How to prepare for handing off designs
• Handoff tools including Zeplin
• Coding for designers

Every designer needs to stay ahead of the trends in order to remain competitive and sharp. In this unit, you’ll uncover the latest trends and future projections in AI-integrated UX in order to anticipate future impacts in UI/ UX Design.

Topics Covered:

• Analysis of latest trends and future projections
• Current AI-Integrated UX trends & principles
• AI and the future of design

Learning how to tell a compelling story about your designs can go a long way to ensure alignment across business functions. This unit teaches you how to effectively communicate your ideas to a variety of stakeholders, such as team members and clients.

Topics Covered:

• Types of presentations
• The components of an effective presentation
• Creating a case study

What happens when psychology meets design? Understanding human motivations can help persuade users to engage with your product. This unit gives you a window into how psychology and design can go hand in hand while also introducing new innovations emerging in the UX space.

Topics Covered:

• The psychology of design
• Persuasive design
• Anticipatory design
• Gamification and behavior change
• Dark patterns
• The future of UX
• Wearables
• Designing voice user interface (VUI)

Knowing the inner workings of a product life cycle and the business requirements that your product will need to be considered successful, can help you stand out from the pack of hiring candidates. In this unit, you’ll learn what it takes to gather the proper requirements and understand the key elements of the product life cycle.

Topics Covered:

• The product life cycle
• Gathering requirements
• Understanding success criteria

What happens when psychology meets design? Understanding human motivations can help persuade users to engage with your product. This unit gives you a window into how psychology and design can go hand in hand while also introducing new innovations emerging in the UX space.

Topics Covered:

• Email, in-person, and remote communication
• Active listening
• Receiving and giving feedback
• Building trust and influence

Create a job-ready portfolio that incorporates all the projects you will work on as a part of this bootcamp, including your Industry Design Project. You’ll work through the process of assembling a cohesive, in-depth, and engaging collection of work while tailoring your portfolio to show off your unique skills and interests.

Topics Covered:

• Refine your case studies
• Write an engaging bio and create a personal logo
• Build your portfolio site
• Critique and review your portfolio

Career units throughout the bootcamp will help you create a tailored job search strategy based
on your background and goals. Learn to craft a resume that stands out from the pack, evaluate companies and roles, ace interviews, and negotiate the best possible salary.

Your mentor will be with you every step of the way, offering feedback and providing personalized tips based on your goals.

Topics Covered:

• Types of industry roles
• Job search strategies
• Building a network and using it to land interviews
• Creating a high-quality resume, linkedin profile, and cover letter
• Preparing for technical and non-technical interviews
• Successful negotiation