What you'll actually do
A UX bootcamp should leave you with work you can show and a process you can run on your own. This one is built around that.
- 1
Learn Figma
Free hands-on Figma lessons in your browser.
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Units 1–6
Free foundations: tools, seeing, type, colour, layout, process.
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Apply
Join the full course when you're ready.
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Units 11–14
Research, synthesis, information architecture, strategy.
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Units 15–20
Prototype, test, hand off, with AI beside you.
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Portfolio and certificate
Case studies, career support and your certificate.
The UX process, unit by unit
The UX half of the course is units 11 to 14, with prototyping and testing in 19 and 20. Each one is a stage of the process, taught on a real brief.
- Research: planning a study, recruiting, interviewing and observing without leading people.
- Synthesis: affinity mapping, insights, journeys and personas that come from evidence, not imagination.
- Information architecture: card sorts, tree tests, flows and the structure of a product.
- Strategy: diverging and converging on ideas, judging product fit, working with AI partners.
- Prototyping and testing: fidelity, logic, motion, usability sessions and what to change after them.
How it compares to a traditional bootcamp
A classic bootcamp is a cohort, a fixed schedule and a large fee. You get structure and pressure. UX UI Open keeps the parts that matter, real projects, feedback from working designers, a community and a certificate, and drops the parts that only existed to justify the price.
You learn at your own pace, you can start today without applying, and you can stop paying whenever you like. The course is also built around AI tools from the first minute, which most bootcamps still bolt on at the end.
Who it's for
Career changers who want a real path into UX, not a certificate for its own sake. Developers, product managers and marketers who want to run research and testing properly. Students adding practical skills next to a degree. No experience needed; the course starts from zero.