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Mattie Vasquez
Decent Experience
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Overall, I this was a good experience for me and the course helped me go from 0% knowledge to about 50% knowledge. The modules were well-structured; however, some of the video tutorials were outdated as they didn't match the current Figma software so it was frustrating to have to spend additional time googling the gaps in instruction. The other main frustration was the inability to pause the course. I know it's a short course, but life happens, and I was unable to work on coursework for about 10 days. This delayed my progress and I was never able to fully catch up. Luckily, you can still finish the coursework after the "deadline" but I know this will impact my application to the full course. The biggest strength to this course is the mentor feedback as it was detailed and tailored to my specific work. -
Aurora Hollenstein
Fun and challenging
What i enjoyed the most about this program is that it's self paced and you have your time to do all the lessons, what i found a little tired was the amount of reading (I'm more of a visual person) so, a little bit of videos explaining stuff would help. -
Isabel Gorham
Great learning experience
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My experience with Designlab's UX foundations was extremely positive. The course content was extremely clear, interesting, and well organized. It was well structured and the platform was easy to use. The assignments were very helpful and engaging. It allowed for lots of flexibility while still holding students accountable and providing plenty of support. The mentor sessions were a great opportunity to get one-on-one instruction and feedback. -
Dylan Hepburn
Amazing, informative and all around great experience.
Pros
-Informative
-Engaging community
-Well structured
Cons
- For me personally, time constrictions
-Too many small projects clustered together
Overall I'd say 8/10. This was a very well made and straight forward program!! I have almost zero complaints and
I would definitely recommend this program to others!
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Matt Klinger
Great Introduction into UX/UI Design!
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UX Foundations was a great introduction into UI design tools (Figma, Sketch) and the overall UX/UI design industry. The course was well structured and the projects throughout the course were fun and helpful in learning Figma.
My favorite aspect of the course was being paired with a mentor who works in the industry where I could get project feedback, learn best practices, and ask all questions related to UX/UI design and careers in the industry.
I'm excited continue the journey and enroll in the UX Academy! -
Denny Alvarez
Easy to learn
Module are easy to understand and not long to read through each. They all have the right information for completing each project with the file provided for it. Mentor 1 on 1 is really helpful for any general questions you are stuck on. -
Magdalena Wilfort
Fab Foundation course in UX/UI
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Designlab UX Foundations is a great course for anyone that wants to learn the basics of UI, I wouldn't say that there were a lot of UX principles in the course, aside from the final non-compulsory module, so perhaps calling it a UI course would have been a bit more clear. They did, however, provide a detailed course description so I knew exactly what I was in for. I had a wonderful mentor and those sessions with mentor is what sets this course apart from the competitors. I also found it super easy to follow the lessons and track my progress, I think some other rival online courses aren't as well designed and, ironically, not as UX friendly! Big fan of Designlab, if the UX academy wasn't as pricey, I probably would have stayed with them but due to the cost, I opted in for a different one. One thing to note with Designlab is that they expect quite a lot of time commitment so it can be a bit tricky if you work a full time time job, get ready to fill your weekends with coursework and lessons. -
atzay estrada
great intro design course
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the foundations course was exactly what i was looking for to get started. i really appreciate how easily accessible designlab makes this course, so it's not a huge commitment off the bat but a trial incase you decide to continue afterwards. the course itself covered the basics and had lots of practice using industry tools. though i had to switch mentors towards the end due to some unforeseen circumstances, both of the mentors i worked with gave me excellent feedback which made my designs stronger. -
Joseph Maxwell Roach
UX Foundations, the best way to describe it.
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This course gave me everything I needed to succeed in the UX/UI Academy. I learned so much about this industry and the tools that are used. I am shifting careers and knew basically nothing about UX/UI before this program and thank goodness I decided to do this before I jumped into the full UX/UI Academy. Without the skills and design eye that this course taught me, I feel confident that I will be successful in the full program. My mentor was invaluable in honing my skills and helped guide me along this process. Thanks to her kind words and guidance I now feel confident that this is the career for me. I cannot give this preparatory course enough credit for setting me up for the next step in my career journey. 11/10 -
Nadia Metelitsa
Solid fundamentals with hands on projects and mentor support
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I took UX Foundations course by DesignLab to get acquainted with the world of UI UX design and see whether it could be a good march for me to make a career change.
The course itself is pretty solid, it introduces basic design principles followed by short test and hands-on projects to consolidate and practice the material. You get weekly 1 hr meetings with an experience mentor assigned to you, who answers your questions and gives feedback on the projects from the point of view of a working professional in the industry, which is really crucial.
The platform is well designed, the curriculum is up-to-date and easy to follow.
The only drawback for me is that I could feel lonely and isolated at times but they have a discord community where you can communicate with fellow students.
Overall, I can recommend the course as a solid intro into the UI UX world. -
Antonia Sterian
Very good learning experience, highly recommend!
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I decided to shift my career from marketing to design and enrolled in Designlab's UX Academy Foundations course. I had zero experience with design before the course and having completed it now, I can confidently say I have a good grasp on design basics.
My mentor is an amazing teacher. She is supportive, helpful and caring. Our sessions were always productive and she even took the time to walk me through past projects, explain workflows, share frameworks - besides the weekly projects.
The curriculum was ok and I felt like it touched all of the basics you need to know if you're just starting out as a designer. -
Kelly Dills
UX Academy Foundations
Overall the program is great. I did find it to be more UI heavy/intensive versus UX but I think it was great to get that foundation. I’ve already recommended this course to others looking for a change. I’m really hopeful that the skills I’ve gathered will help me make a career change. -
Anna Li
Great learning experience
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Designlab's UX Foundations provided a well-balanced learning experience. The self-guided approach with mentor feedback accommodated my full-time work schedule; and the manageable workload and abundant resources enriched my understanding. However, occasional delays in mentor feedback, likely due to their busy schedules, were a minor drawback. Overall, a valuable course for those seeking flexibility in UX education. -
Brittany Souder
Great learning experience!
I really loved the UX Academy Foundations course! I feel like it gave me a good understanding of UX/UI design especially as I apply and make my way into UX Academy after the holidays. Would highly recommend. Loved the 1:1 sessions with my mentor over the 8 weeks of the program. -
Kristen McAhren
Excellent Design Education
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I had a great experience with Designlab UX Academy Foundations. I started the course knowing very little about how to design an app or a website, and I didn't feel confident at first. Figma was completely new to me, and this was the hardest for me to learn. There were a lot of good tutorials thugh, and these combined with help from my mentor allowed me to get to a point where I feel comfortable using it. The curriculum was very good and the projects and feedback I got helped me learn a lot. My mentor was awesome and very supportive. He was positive in giving feedback while still challenging me to push my designs further. I was doing the part-time track, and the one thing I have to say is that the suggested times for completing the projects was a bit unrealistic at times. It took me a lot longer to complete the final project, for example, than the suggested 10 hours. Also, taking into account the time needed to spend iterating on the feedback received took longer than I expected. Overall, it's a great program! I definitely learned a lot and I feel a lot more comfortable designing now than when I started! -
Caroline Hoffman
Great introduction to UX/UI
Loved this program - totally doable with a full-time job, and teaches all the basics of UX/UI. I think it is a great starting point as it gives you all needed skills to continue learning after the program is over! Love the one-on-one mentoring, too. -
Francis Anthony-Bassey
Challenging, insightful and engaging
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The experience was fantastic. The curriculum was very well rounded and provided me with the fundamentals of design. I really like the optional and additional readings provided this allowed me to further my knowledge in the field. The projects were challenging and well prepared. The mentorship experience was really great having to interact with someone that’s actively working on the fields as a designer was very helpful. -
Kimberly Fong
Great Introduction to UX Design
Designlab's UX Academy Foundations was a great Introduction to UX Design. I learn a lot about the history and basics of visual and UI design. You are also required to meet with your mentor 1 on 1 to discuss your assignments. You are added to a cohort and a discord and given access to the community which is very valuable. -
Rachel
Great UX/UI Course that Delivers Promises!
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I had a great experience with Designlab throughout the course of 2021. I enrolled in Foundations and the Academy in a part time capacity (20 hours per week) and finished up my capstone projects and graduated within a year. I personally felt the experience was well worth the price and I certainly learned a lot in my time there. The course itself was relatively "self-paced" with deadlines each week and a weekly meeting with a design mentor. My initial mentor was pretty slow in providing feedback so I switched mentors and got one who was fantastic! After graduating, it took me about 4 months of interviewing and applying to land my first full time offer. I took the role and made my transition into design! -
Erin Mohr
Took the course, got a job in the field!
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Designlab was just what I needed when looking for a career change. Their challenging curriculum paired with team cohort crits and INCREDIBLE mentorship from my mentor was just what I needed to get my UX career off the ground. I consider myself one of the luckier ones, but got a job in the field before graduating from the course.
The only downside from DL was how students who landed a job were treated in career services. I wanted to use the resources to improve my application/interviewing/ portfolio skills but was only given 2 sessions, even though I had a contract gig that was ending 6 months later.
Even with the small grievance, Designlab was exactly what I wanted in a bootcamp and successfully aided me in my career change to UX Design. -
Kevin Ro
set the foundations for UX design
The UX Foundations course helped set the foundations in ux design. With a design background, the new programs threw me off a little bit but the resources helped refresh my memory and guided me through the program with ease. The chapters work off of each other and helped me progress a little bit at a time at my own pace. -
Jill Leus
Great experience!
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When deciding to pivot my career from nursing to UX design, I researched different bootcamps and compared their curriculum with prices. I found Designlab to be the most impactful for an affordable price.
Community: My favorite thing about this bootcamp was the community aspect. I met some life-long friends and colleagues through their Discord channel. I heard about my first internship from someone I met via the "Los Angeles channel" on Discord, whom I personally met up with at a coffee shop. There are endless opportunities provided by the DL community (i.e. job opportunities, tips and tricks for interviewing, resources, webinars, etc). I ended up joining a hackathon upon hearing about it on the DL Discord chat and it was by far one of the greatest experiences of my UX career.
Curriculum: Aside from the community aspect, I learned a lot from the curriculum itself. I was enrolled in UX Foundations and UX Academy, which gave me a profound understanding of UX principles and the design process. I found the videos and resources to be super helpful. I know that many have complained that there isn't enough focus on learning about Figma and how to actually do the designing, but I feel that it's only fair since the purpose of the bootcamp is more about understanding what goes on behind the designs rather than learning how to design step-by-step. As a student, there is a lot of self- learning to do and it is up to them how much work they want to put in on their own.
Mentorship: I was fortunate to have really good mentors along the way. It's quite possible to have a mentor whose mentoring style that does not align with the students' personal needs. Luckily, there's the option to request for a new mentor. Students are responsible for knowing their own learning needs and how they want to be mentored. I personally found that having a mentor who allows me to work independently while being available to provide feedback and resources as needed was more helpful than having someone micromanage my work. I also found that it was useful to have questions and ideas ready to be presented to my mentors prior to meeting so that each meeting was productive.
Overall, I had a really positive experience with Designlab and would highly recommend it, especially for those who have zero design experience!
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Tony Acosta
Academy Foundations Experience
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The program overall was structured very well. It was easy to follow the weeks, projects, and directions. One of the many things that I liked was the fact that we had a mentor to guide us through the process as well as giving feedback on the assigned homework was very good for my growth as an aspiring designer. One of the cons I felt could be improved would be the reading sections of the program. I don't retain information well with just reading, which made it a little difficult to understand when reading four to six different sections that laster about 20 minutes. My suggestion to this is to add videos that either could partially replace the text on readings (half reading and half videos), or having videos that have the text portion follow said video. That would help me and a lot more people understand and collect the information better. -
Asma Ansari
Great course for learning UX/UI design principles!
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The foundation's course will give you a comprehensive understanding of the principles and concepts behind UX/UI design. The course offers abundant reading material, complemented by a limited number of videos primarily focusing on figma and sketch tutorials. It's like a window into what the academy offers and allows you to assess your commitment to the weekly mentor sessions and group critiques. The only downside is that the Figma tutorials provided in this course are slightly outdated and lack detail. Prior familiarity with the software will greatly enhance your learning experience. -
Tessa Mace
Great foundations bootcamp!
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I recently completed the foundations course and will hopefully be in UX Academy soon. I really enjoyed this course and felt it was paced well for the part-time track. I have a full time job so I wasn't able to do full-time and it was the right amount of time commitment. The lessons and projects have time suggestions to guide you and are completely self paced. Some days I had more time to go through them and other days I didn't so it was helpful to have the time stamps on them to help schedule myself. I found the lessons very interesting and well structured.
My mentor, Kelly, was absolutely amazing! She gave great feedback and really helped me beyond just foundational learning. Once I understood the basics, she encouraged me to start thinking about higher level design thinking. She was extremely patient and very knowledgable! I had previous design experience (non-UX experience) so she was great at helping me incorporate it into my projects. -
Christina Liu
Helpful and Practical
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Before Designlab, I took a lot of free online courses, but none of them gave me practical teaching on how to use software and actually design. I appreciated that in conjunction with all the informational lessons, there were many projects that allowed me to get comfortable with the software and actually practice design principles and hierarchies. I liked how all the information in the course was developed by Designlab, meaning I was paying for unique material. I also really appreciated the mentor program. It really helps to have real feedback from a real professional. I will say, I don't necessarily feel like I got that much more connected with people in the UX/UI field in terms of making connections and networking, but that could be due to my own struggle with using the Discord networking community. Overall though, I do feel more equipped and prepared to develop my portfolio further. -
William Dockery
Easy to follow, great lessons and projects, amazing mentorship, and very encourgaing.
For a foundations course, there's not any cons that I could think of when it comes to the overall course. The dashboard was very user friendly, which allowed me to easily follow along what lessons were next and when my next mentor meeting was. The course provided some amazing reads that really helped teach me a lot of key factors that prepared me for the unit projects. -
Kattariya May
I've learned so much!
I've got to say that learning the foundation course here in Designlab has been super smooth. Everything's straightforward to understand, and having that one-on-one with a private mentor? Absolute game-changer. Plus, the cost is pretty affordable. Totally worth it! -
Garrett Robinson
Comfortable, guiding, easy to understand.
The course was well paced and had good projects that challenged me. The mentorship was great and helped me realize my mistakes quickly but in an efficient way. I felt myself progress over the course of this program and it clearly shows in my work, which is something I can look back on and see that I’m learning. -
Erin Cruise
Great Intro to UX Design
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I recently decided that I wanted to make a career shift from the advertising field to UX/UI design. I had a bit of experience designing websites from a graphics perspective but I wanted to find a bootcamp to develop my skills and portfolio. The Foundations course at Designlab is a prerequisite for their full UX Academy. This course gives you the opportunity to learn the basics of design, how to approach finding the solutions to briefs, thinking like a designer and how to design in Figma. It was really helpful to go through all of the projects and work with an amazing mentor who gave really insightful feedback. I would recommend doing this course if you're interested in learning more about design and seeing if this type of work is a fit for you. -
Franco Flores Perez
Ux Designer
I struggled a lot with the time management of esch proyect to upload. Since all works were subjective in my opinion. I dont think i could actually work with the knowledge i get in here. Obviously i need to keep learning but with only foundations you would think this can be a steping stone, but i would say i would need more than that. -
C.B.
UX Academy Foundations is perfect for the curious career switcher
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Designlab's UX Academy Foundations course is a wonderful first step for those who have little to no experience in the field and are looking to either learn new skills or initiate a career change. I really love that the entire course is self-paced, but has built in markers (like mentor check-ins, the 8 week max timeline) to ensure students are progressing sufficiently. I also appreciate that Designlab has a thriving community on Discord, which students can access to ask questions, engage in group crits, and learn about what's happening in the UX / UI world at-large. I have no cons that immediately come to mind to be completely honest! I really enjoyed this course and plan to move ahead with the Academy eventually. -
Tanner Nguyen
Very well structured
Overall great experience and loved that I get to have one on one meets with my mentor. Would recommend to anyone trying to get into UX. I would definitely make sure you work ahead because it is really easy to fall behind. So far it’s been worth every penny. -
Richard Hwang
Great value, in-depth curriculum
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Designlab's UX Academy Foundations is a great intro course that covers what the field is about, how to use commonly-used applications (Figma, Sketch), and what to expect from a career in the field. Despite being an "intro" course, I found that a lot of the course work goes pretty in-depth, and a lot of suggested materials really supplement the curriculum. Weekly 1:1 mentor support is invaluable; I received live help on issues I was encountering, and also discussed real-world topics that I might not have learned from reading a blog or forum.
The curriculum is fairly paced with a specific weekly topics and assignments peppered throughout. Access to see other students' work is a great feature so one can get inspiration from others who are on the same path. There is also a great Discord community where students can interact with each other and get live questions answered during virtual office hours.
Overall, I highly recommend the course for those interested in UX but without any prior design experience. It covers a lot of ground, can give you an inside look into the field, and is a great value for what you get out of it. -
Jill Fader
Good introductory course
The UX Foundations course eith design lab was thorough but also a great option for those new to design like me. I found the information easy to digest and apply to projects. The feedback from my mentor had also helped tremendously in building my skills and making better design choices. -
Afore Hsieh
Totally worth it
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Before signing up for the Designlab UX Academy Foundations, I was trying to study UI/UX on my own for about three months with learning materials on Udemy. I did make some progress while studying on my own, but I could get lazy and less-motivated along the way and when there's no one to view my design, I wasn't sure whether I was doing the right thing or not. After signing up for Designlab, I felt much more motivated than before. The course content from Designlab is easy-to-understand. The design project for each unit is very well-made. Whenever I finished a project, I could feel that my design skills have been lifted to the next level. I was also fortunate that I've got a great mentor who's always challenging me to think more on my design. I finished the Foundation course in about 6 weeks and I'm proud to say that my design skills and knowledge have substantially improved! -
Jayden Richmond
A helpful introduction for UX Academy
This was helpful in understanding the skills needed to be a UI designer with gems here and there about UX design. I like the submission process that's similar to the agile workflow that we will likely use in the workplace. After this course I don't feel like I completed a frivolous little course, I feel ready and capable of succeeding as a budding UX/UI designer. -
Paige Keefer
I had a great experience during my time with Designlab!
Designlab was the best decision I ever made! The course was very fair, challenging, and insightful. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot through giving and receiving feedback. My mentor and the staff were super helpful and supportive! -
Power Lee
Designlab Foundation bootcamp
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The course was good. I thought it was going to be lecture videos, but no it's self-read and learn UX/UI principles by yourself. There was a mentor that would make comments on our project and be there if you need help. However, I didn't meet my mentor as much because the material is straightforward. My mentor was pretty good and fast at responding back. When I do have a question, my mentor explained pretty good. -
Susan Bolling
Excellent UI Intro and prep for UX Academy
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I completed the Foundations course in preparation for the UX Academy, and now that I've started in the Academy, I'm so glad that I did. It's an excellent intro to UI Design, which provides (per the course title) a great Foundation on which to build an entry-level understanding of UX Design. The course is comprehensive and fluid -- the curriculum is progressive and includes relevant projects that apply new skills immediately after they're introduced. The final project brings everything together and offers an excellent opportunity to work with a mentor to make it something worthy of a portfolio. There's a brief intro to some more complex UI topics like Design Systems. Robust and rigorous but also very approachable. I highly recommend it.