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I believe that the curriculum has some issues which I hope are going to be solved in the future.
My main concerns are i) the estimations of learning are highly unrealistic ii) the content of the modules are not well organised.
Nevertheless, I feel so grateful of my mentor and the help I receive. -
Pallavi Patke
UX Immersion + VUI Specialization
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What stood out to me the most is the excellent quality of mentorship that CareerFoundry provides to all its learners remotely. For someone transitioning mid-career such as myself, it was a boon to finally have a dedicated expert show me how to do things in a certain way. The 'what' is easy to figure out by reading information in books/blogs etc., but the approach, the technique, the hacks and the mindset need to be inculcated. CareerFoundry's systematic, mentorship-driven curricula instills that kind of discipline in you inspiring you to push your own boundaries. -
Sam
UX Designer
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Well, to be honest, this was a terrifyingly inept program. I have to say that some of the mentors and advisors were helpful, but it was clear that this is simply a business and there is no quality control of the student work being produced. There is no standard to educate folks that have no design background with the tools they will need. They are simply setting their students up to fail. I landed on my feet because I have the training and skill set. Most people do not. This was incredibly disappointing.Victoria of CareerFoundry
Program Advisor
Apr 21, 2021
Hi Sam,
Thank you for sharing your feedback.
We are sorry that your experience did not match your expectations, and we are always open to feedback in order to improve the product we offer. We would very much like the opportunity to investigate your case further.
Could you please contact us at feedback@careerfoundry.com
We look forward to hearing from you and addressing the points raised.
Best regards,
Your CareerFoundry Team -
Tyler Phillips
UI Design - CareerFoundry Review
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This design course was a fantastic experience! I'm a graphic design student with only my associates, but I opted to go with CareerFoundry rather than taking more classes for a bachelor's. I felt I could gain more experience in a shorter time for a lower cost. With that being said, here's my experience in detail:
1. The Information - To let you know right out the gate, it's a good amount of reading, and your experience will only be enhanced if you read the multitude of links and resources they provide. The information itself is a solid way to understand your design app, and the overall design process. It also helps to give insights on what you will be doing in the workplace which is a nice addition. I will say that aside from a couple of times, they never get too detailed on their topics. Each task will have you jumping around from topic to topic trying to learn everything you're reading, and depending on how fast you want to complete the course, it could be a lot to take in.
2. The tutor/mentor experience - My tutor has been wonderful. With rapid feedback, and giving real world expectations, I've been able to constantly be critiqued and judged based on whether a design solid or lacking something. I think that the tutor itself is worth the money, because being able to have feedback from an experienced professional at the drop of a hat is incredibly important to growing as a designer. My mentor has also been a great way of learning about what I should expect in the workplace, learning about what and what not to say during interviews, talking about design trends, how they got their first job as a designer, and many more topics.
3. The price - I believe I payed around 6,500 USD, and I can confidently say, without even getting into the Job Preparation Course or the Specialization Course yet, that I would do it again in a heartbeat. I think that for everything you get, the price of a semester at a 4 year college is definitely worth the investment. You learn everything you need to jump into the workforce, and UI/UX designers make quite a bit more in comparison to graphic designers for example. Being able to pay that back after finding a position in a month or two, for up to 9 months of feedback, learning, and conversations with people in the industry? That's value!
Overall I recommend CareerFoundry to anyone who wants to advance as a designer, or move into the design field from a different field entirely. You'll learn what the real advantages are when it comes to having a different skill set, and be excited even more about how you can use it to become an even better UI designer. -
Becca
Fab course!
I really enjoyed my 4 week intro course. My tutors always responded promptly with in-depth feedback and clear direction. -
Agustina
Content and support.
CareerFoundry exceeded my expectations. They know what's needed when changing careers. The support and help from the specialists makes you feel accompanied even on quarantine months. Both the main course and the Job Preparation are super useful.
I had a general idea of UX and this bootcamp gave me a structure and lots of tools to leave the impostor syndrome behind and feel ready to work. -
Christine
Great online bootcamp course!
Great bootcamp course with online flexibility and support such as mentors, tutors, and student advisors! Highly recommend! -
Swathi
Great UX Design course for beginners
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I chose career foundry as many of the other online boot camps had crash courses like “12 weeks” “8weeks”. Personally, I prefer the phase and approach of career foundry over these other rushed courses. It’s learn at your phase suited my learning goals. The tutor and mentors were absolutely fantastic. They were always there to help and guide and they are why I was able to stay motivated and finish the course. The course material is comprehensive and easy enough for beginners to the field to self learn. Greatly enjoyed my time with career foundry. -
Richard McClellan
Did the UI 9 month program
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You will not get a job with from the grainy form this company unless you are are the top 1%.
I have been a graphic designer 15 years and took this course and they leave you on your own to find a job. They didn’t show me any company’s willing to hire. You will learn some things that you could learn on YouTube, that’s it. If you don’t get a 4 year degree with a college they won’t even look at you for UI UX. CareerFoundry won’t refer you any places to apply that can help you break in to the field. Maybe coders get it better, but unless you have are they very best good luck you will be out a lot of time and $7,000.Madina of CareerFoundry
Program Advisor
Apr 16, 2021
Hi there,
thank you for sharing your feedback.
We are sorry that your experience did not match your expectations, and we are always open to feedback in order to improve the product we offer. We would very much like the opportunity to investigate your case further, as the points that you have cited are extremely uncommon for the vast majority of our students.
Could you please contact us at: feedback@careerfoundry.com
We look forward to hearing from you and addressing the points raised.
Best regards,
Your CareerFoundry Team -
Peter Cameron
UX Designer
Have found the course very detailed and interesting. The tutors, mentors and course assistance has been very supportive. The material is in depth and I truly feel that it is definitely going to help me change career. -
Melissa R
UI Immersion
I am enrolled and 75% of the way finished with Career Foundry's UI course. It has been a great well rounded experience so far. I would recommend their courses. As a 40+ person, CF has made me feel confident and excited for a career change. -
Jay
Student
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CareerFoundry's curriculum is extensive with knowledgeable and helpful tutors and mentors. All assignments include detailed instructional material and a hands-on task to apply skills learned toward building a complete project for your portfolio. My tutor and mentor are extremely helpful, responsive, and encouraging. The support staff are also wonderful. It is a very supporting system. I have also begun the Job Preparation course, included with the UX Immersion course, and my job specialist is equally amazing. The job prep assignments are getting me ready to confidently apply for positions. I highly recommend CareerFoundry to those looking to gain industry certification. -
Payton Koch
UI Design Immersion course
The coursework is nicely presented and easy to work through. They give you a few examples from other students for each assignment which is really helpful with online learning. -
Dilpreet Walia
UX Design Bootcamp Student
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My experience with CareerFoundry has been so rewarding. Even though the course is 100% online, it still has a personal touch with an experienced mentor and a helpful tutor that you're assigned from the very start. I feel like I know them, even though I have never actually met them in-person. The course taught me so much and really challenged me. I'm confident I'll be able to apply everything I learned from my course to real-world problems, I feel so ready. Thank you, CareerFoundry! -
alejandro castillo
ux design
it has been a great experience all staff is committed to helping me, I would like short courses to improve our new skills -
Alice Boter
now i i know conversational design is what i love
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Really enjoyed doing this course. I liked the practical approach. Hands on, and make your own skills on Alexa. Also liked the fact that you can always ask your teacher for help and advice. What could be better: they tend to have somewhat older articles they refer to for extra reading. They do a really good job in supporting you and making sure nothing gets in your way to reach success. The way they have organized the course is great, you can immediately see your progress. -
Adam
A rewarding, structured way to study UX with a great community
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I am about 6 months in to the UX Design program at Career Foundry at this point. Overall it has been a good experience—the tasks are broken down into good chunks, the feedback and resources have been helpful, and the mentorship has been incredibly valuable. I definitely recommend Career Foundry, especially for the community aspect.
My one area of improvement and encouragement to them would be to rethink the "Time Estimation" on tasks. It is helpful to know an average time, but has been a source of discouragement when I have needed to spend a lot of additional time on a project. Talking to my mentor has definitely help me set more realistic expectations and determine when I am being a perfectionist and just need to submit my assignment vs when I need to spend additional time working on something. -
Essence Patterson
From Teacher to Techie, Thanks to CF
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As a former preschool teacher who chose to make a career switch, I can honestly say my experience with Career Foundry has been nothing short of amazing. I am currently taking their UI Immersion course and am quickly approaching my Frontend Development for Designers specialization. I have learned about several components of mobile design I view through using apps day-to-day that I had no clue involved so much thought, all in an effort to prioritize the user. The communication and assistance given on all fronts is also excellent (tutor, mentor, and student advisors)! I feel more confident stepping into the design and tech industry now more than ever because of this program. -
Chen Segal
UX design course
Great course, very detailed and moderate.
The tutor is very professional.
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Alexa Lepisto
UI Design
I’m a student in the UI design program and have really loved it so far. I’ve learned so much and each project does a good job of explaining new concepts. The instructors are helpful and always offer additional resources if you need help understanding a project or idea. I would highly recommend this program! -
Elizabeth
Good UX Design Course for Independent Self-Starters
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The materials are very well laid out, with clear explanations, relevant tasks, and a logical progression through the project. For the UX Design Course, I had a tutor to review the submitted tasks and a mentor to review the portfolio we were building, although I wasn't quite clear on what the mentor's role was until later in the course when we were finalizing the project. The tutor was excellent, giving detailed, personalized feedback in a short amount of time, although it would've been useful to have phone contact with the tutor because he was monitoring the "day-to-day" tasks we submitted. The mentor, who I had easy phone access to, seemed more distant, but it was good having access to her when it came to putting the online portfolio together.
I felt that tasks were much more time-consuming than estimated, perhaps because I had no background whatsoever in design or technology. To that end, more support could have been given regarding the tools used for the course. Nowadays, there are a lot of online tutorials to help, but I felt that if I were paying for a program that advises that no prior experience is necessary, then training or curriculum should include detailed "how-to" units or workshops with the applications we had to use.
Overall, a thorough program and appropriate if you are a self-starter and good at working independently. It is a lot of work, so you really have to keep up with the timeline, as nobody is monitoring your progress but yourself, and if you fall behind, it's hard to catch up. The program has given me enough knowledge about the UX Design process that I feel comfortable applying for jobs, although I don't know what sort of work I can get because I haven't started looking yet. -
Marc Henry
Fantastic Program
The UX Design program at CareerFoundry has been incredible so far. It's self-paced which is super helpful, and the feedback is timely and always very productive. I have been pleased by my tutor and mentor's input and feel like I'm getting a quality education in the UX field. -
Brandon
Great Support and knowledge
CareerFoundry has been great at connecting me with excellent mentors and tutors as well as creating a community amoung the students. The course is constantly being made better and they really seem dedicated to the success of the students. I always receive great feedback and my confidence in UX and UI design has grown immensely! -
Vedrana T.
Great for future UX designers
Overall great program. It sorts out all information available into meaningful groups. In the process it wasn‘t very clear why I‘m doing something but now at the end it makes all sense. Thankfully I had mentor and tutor and they were always there for me, answered all my questions and I was often confused. I love student advisors as much! They always understood me well snd helped me every time! -
Stephanie
Wonderful UI Design Course
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I've had such a life-changing experience with CareerFoundry's UI Design course. Studying UI design has, for the first time, given me motivation to pursue something creative in my career. Their exercises are clear and straightforward with examples and step-by-step walkthroughs. Their tutors and mentors give great constructive, supportive, and encouraging feedback. And the whole course is designed to build your portfolio with the tools and processes you need to land a job immediately after. Couldn't recommend it enough. -
Candace
Data analytics program
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The coursework is easy to pick up for me, I have a minimal background in coding and graphic design. It's clear in the community groups that the data analytics program is brand new. The career services zoom calls center more on the UX/UI coursework and much of the slack group is filled with UI/UX tasks and requests for survey submission. My mentor and tutor are great at giving feedback and responding promptly to my submissions. There is no specialty track for data analytics yet but I've heard it's in development. The specialty course would be very helpful for people like me that have no clue what industry they want to get into upon completion. Overall the price and the tutor/mentor relationship are great. The program could use more community involvement for data analytics students. -
Rami
Headfirst into UX Design with CareerFoundry
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After 3 years in the entertainment industry, I felt out of touch with my self and my career choices. I began doing research on creative jobs in tech - a field I've always admired. CareerFoundry had a blog post comparing UX bootcamps, and humbly showcased other worthy options before selling themselves. After comparing a number of choices, it was obvious CareerFoundry truly cared about career-changers like me, who require hands on assistance, detailed course lessons, yet a flexible pace. I'm so happy with my decision to take CareerFoundry's UX Design Course, and can't wait to solve meaningful problems in my new career! -
Antoanela Voicu
UX/UI Designer
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Benjamin Cline
Ux Design Student
So far I'm liking the course to some degree. Although I don't love the format of the curriculum and think that it could be updated in parts. But as long as this course helps me with my career goals than it will be worth it for me, which I will know in a couple months when I start searching for jobs. -
Chris Duncan
UX Design Student
Excellent and interesting! -
Chiara Ruiu
Full time UX course
I think the material is not up to date and some exercises feel like they are there just to make the course longer. -
Sina
UX Design Bootcamp CareerFoundry
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I just completed my UX Design Course (Intro + Immersion) I worked on for the last five months. I am very happy that I found this UX design school and would definitely recommend it. The best part is that you work with a mentor, a tutor, and a career specialist (when doing the job preparation course) and it's all about your specific career development, skills, and experiences. So like a whole team for your development ;) You have to complete a bunch of tasks but can study on your own (whenever you want as there a no live classes) and it's really practical. At the end, you have a nice portfolio on top ;) -
Jonathan Mynette
Amazing!
CareerFoundry have given me the skills and support needed for my career change. I can’t recommend them enough. I’m absolutely loving the course. -
Harini Shetty
UX Designing Certification
It was a wonderful experience, I really appreciate all the support I got from the team. -
Robert
Ux design immersive
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The course overall feels pretty good. I learned a lot here. Teachers office hour is basically unlimited. You can ask them to review anything you want. However, There are a few drawbacks. First, the course is not as long as they described. You should be able to finish full time within 4 month( the entire course). Second, the community is not very supportive. It is hard to find people to participate in your research. Lastly, most content is words, instead of videos, so it is a personal preference: whether you like reading text or watching videos. I feel that I am more focused reading the text, so it is ok. -
Kamila
Good content, but more tutorial videos wouldn't hurt
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The course itself is quite complete, I really liked that it has a whole chapter on UX design, which gives us a better understanding of the whole creation process.
Although I did a little test about the course, it was not clear to me that the course is basically all reading and links that lead to more reading. Many times I couldn't understand some things and I had to look for other sources like You Tube. We know that a human being cannot stay focused for long, so it would be nice to have more video tutorials and, why not once in a while interaction with the other students (optional).
I want to emphasize that the assistance of tutors and mentors is a plus, having the backing of a professional in the area makes all the difference. -
Alexis Bray
Review
Love the UI Immersion course so far. The resources provided are very helpful! The online course is easy to follow and the mentors and tutors are very eager to help. -
Lívia Brito
Great Experience!
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I have already passed half the course, and so far I have only had positive experiences! The course is very well structured, both in terms of content and student support (perhaps the CarrerFoundry differential). My mentor and tutor are always available to answer questions, I have weekly calls with my mentor to talk about the progress of my achievements. Both respond very quickly, always. I definitely recommend it! -
Malaika
Good Entrypoint into the World of UX
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I’m currently enrolled in the UX Design course with Career Foundry. Prior to this I spoke to a friend who had also completed the course and overall had mainly positive things to say about it.
I find the curriculum good - some of the tasks here and there feel somewhat pointless given the lack of “real world setting” and its more of a thought experiment in terms of “imagine you’re on a larger team with different stakeholders” - but overall I’m quite happy with the new input and methodologies I’ve been learning so far.
As an already established professional with almost a decade of experience within creative industries under my belt, I decided to take this course as a means of upskilling. One thing I’d have to point out though is that CareerFoundry’s UX Design course many times seems more strongly geared towards recent college graduates or people very early on in their career path.
While overall I do enjoy the experience, the UX course is perhaps a stronger fit for people wanting to start a UX Design career from a very entry level job. Not a bad thing at all - just something to be aware of in regards to managing ones own expectations! -
Julie DiRosa
UX Design Program - Immersion
The UX Design course was a really great experience, the tutors and mentors really know the topics and I found that they pushed me to go further and take an extra step which helped me feel engaged and also deepened my understanding and importance of UX. I was hesitant at first but now as I am nearing completion, I feel very confident in my future. Thank you all at Career Foundry!