Overview
Within our course, you will start developing successful digital products that will appeal to customers and consumers. You will learn basic UX skills: client briefing; user research; building information architecture; sketching, and creating interactive prototypes.
You will also master the basics of UI, visual language of products: you will learn how to work with a modular grid, composition principles, typography, and color combinations. Your teacher will help you define some modern design patterns and find the best ways to implement them in your work. You’ll be able to create responsive websites for different devices.
During the course, you will work on several projects for your portfolio. Upon completion, you will create a good-looking and convenient website that you’ll present at the graduation event.
Required skills
- You know your goals and motivation for completing the course
- You can allocate ~20 hours per week for studies
- Your level of English allows you to read theory resources (at least with an online translator).
- You can find the information you need online and get the most out of it
- You know how to check the accuracy and relevance of information
- You are on friendly terms with your computer, so you can find the task manager or install Zoom on your own
Why UI/UX design?
- This is the main creative outlet in the IT field
- It’s demanded — more than 100 vacancies for UI/UX designers appear on djinni.co every month
- Easy transition to related specializations — product designer, UX/CX researcher, full-stack designer
- UI/UX solves business problems since a designer simplifies users’ lives

Course program
Main course modules and lessons for this course.
UX design
34 h • 13 topics- Introduction to the course. UI/UX designer profession. Types of sites
- Basics of Design Thinking. UX strategy
- Working with a brief: mind mapping and information architecture
- UX research: competitor analysis
- UX research: personas and empathy maps
- UX research: customer journey map and user flow
- Prototyping: site elements and sketching
- Prototyping: wireframing
- Testing: in-depth interviews, surveys, card sorting
- UX research: web analytics
- UX research: A/B testing
- UX portfolio. UX exam
- Lesson zero. Get to know everyone
Designer's instruments: Figma and Photoshop
24 h • 9 topics- Introduction to Figma. First month retrospective
- Figma. Access by link. Comments. Frames
- Figma. Working with shapes. Alignment. Fill, stroke, gradient.
- Figma. Pen & Pencil. Reproduction of illustrations
- Figma. Working with text. Working with raster and correcting
- Figma. Masks. Effects
- Photoshop. Workspace. First steps. Brushes. Blend mode
- Photoshop. Image retouching. Cutting tools
- Photoshop. Image retouching (patch, clone stamp)
UI and visual design for web interfaces
32 h • 12 topics- Composition basics
- Color theory
- Fonts
- Modular grids
- Typography in web
- Visual hierarchy. Styles in design
- Icon design in Figma
- Site elements. UI kit
- Interactive prototype in Figma
- Components and plugins in Figma
- Creating a design system
- Landing Page
Adaptive design and prototyping
12 h • 5 topics- Responsive design: design for different devices
- Adaptivity: tablet version. Auto layout in Figma
- Prototyping: mockups
- Transferring files to developers. Zeplin
- Customer-designer conversation
Final project
28 h • 10 topics- Project work: mind map and competitor analysis
- Project work: information architecture and site structure
- Project work: creating personas/empathy maps
- Project work: sketch and wireframe
- Project work: working with texts
- Project work: completion of the prototype
- Project work: design concept
- Project work: homepage UI
- Project work: UI of the main pages
- Project work: adaptive
Personal brand and portfolio creation
10 h • 4 topics- Portfolio preparation
- Project on Behance
- CV. LinkedIn
- Graduation event
Application process
Take the test
Register in our LMS and do a test to help us evaluate your knowledge.
Interview
Once we receive your test results, we'll invite you for an online meeting. Let's see if we're a good match.
Enroll
Start your education in the next available group. Your next career destination has never been closer.
Course content
total hours
Teachers
Practical skills for your future career
You will get
- 53 teacher-led sessions
- 3 times/week
- Life time access to course materials
- Certificate of completion
New skills and an amazing career in IT awaits!
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Our impact
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IT companies employed our students
of graduates are female
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Application process
Take the test
Register in our LMS and do a test to help us evaluate your knowledge.
Interview
Once we receive your test results, we'll invite you for an online meeting. Let's see if we're a good match.
Enroll
Start your education in the next available group. Your next career destination has never been closer.