Learn UX Design, User Research, User Interface Design and more with expert mentors and facilitators through projects, critiques and presentations.
Costs 80% lesser than other UX bootcamps, despite more senior facilitators. The difference? We’re focused on you, not on profits.
All you need is 8-10 hours/week for 12 weeks. Flexible and easy to fit into your busy schedule, even if you work or study full-time.
Learn from anywhere—all you need is a computer and internet. You’ll make friends from around the world!
Learn tools and processes used in real UI/UX teams. Show depth and variety in your portfolio to impress recruiters.
Get closer to your dream job with any individual IxDF bootcamp. Complete 3 bootcamps to qualify for a job guarantee.
Learn by doing—at the end of the bootcamp, you’ll have a full portfolio of projects that showcase your design process.
Learn and grow with your peers in group sessions as well as individually through 1:1 sessions with mentors and course facilitators.
Employers worldwide will recognize your Bootcamp Certificate. IxDF is the world’s largest online design school with 119,540+ graduates.
We hire experienced and passionate industry professionals as our course coordinators and facilitators, and have a growing community of mentors currently in the various UX industries we teach. Pick a mentor that suits you best based on expertise, location or if you just feel they would be a great match.
From industry experts behind the course development and creation, to trained course facilitators with their own field expertise and experience, you are in great hands! Add to the mix the ability to connect with mentors from our mentor community, an IxDF Bootcamp program sets you up for success!Nadya SantapagaHead of Bootcamps / IxDF
Great UX results never happen alone, so we believe great UX learning shouldn’t either. Collaborate with expert mentors, facilitators and other talented students like you to supercharge your skills and build your professional network.
Every UX designer needs advice in their learning and in their work. That’s why our bootcamps include individual sessions with expert mentors and facilitators.
Get the critique, answers and confidence you need to move forward in your project delivery and skills development process.
Upskill in UX, UI Design or User Research to land your dream job and grow your career. Whether you’re new or whether you have prior experience and skills, you can opt for beginner or advanced tracks to get exactly what you need from the bootcamp you choose.
Already know enough in UX to skip ahead? Choose the UX Portfolio and Career bootcamp to focus exclusively on your portfolio, job interview prep and recruiter feedback.
Adesh Shah conducts research in artificial intelligence and machine learning. It is a very technical field. When he wanted to expand his ability to understand and design for users, he researched his options and chose the IxDF.
Through the program, I learned the tools—research interviews, user personas, task flows, pain points. It has empowered me to speak up and say I have the knowledge to make our online community better our members.
Arielle Strakhov is an experienced digital marketer who chose the IxDF to improve her user research skills, build her portfolio and transition to a career in UX. Arielle’s new skills have already helped in her digital marketing work and have put her on the path toward an exciting career in UX design.
At the end of the day, you’re taking a bootcamp for concrete skills to show. This bootcamp is going to deliver on that.
You’re getting a super high-quality experience and level of education in just about twelve weeks. You can’t beat it!Brigette LeVert
IxDF Bootcamp Student
IxDF Bootcamps don’t just lead the industry in affordability—when it comes to all other aspects of the bootcamp experience, we're at par (and sometimes ahead) of others. All this while continuing to provide you with high quality at low costs.
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| Number of UX Bootcamps | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Price Per Bootcamp | $2,592 | $7,999 | $6,749 | $14,950 | $12,150 |
| Industry Experience | 19 yrs | 8 yrs | 7 yrs | 10 yrs | 9 yrs |
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| Job Guarantee Program * | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
Complete 3 IxDF Bootcamps* to be eligible for a UX Certification with Job Guarantee—an elite-tier program that trains you in specialized UX skills, provides you with career-oriented mentorship as well as a job guarantee.
An IxDF UX Certification validates that you have the skills and know-how to be recognized as a skilled UX designer. It's a hard-earned distinction with an exam, review board and expert critique, so it is globally trusted and recognized by top employers.
Learn MoreYour 12 week commitment launches with a week of orientation where you will be onboarded to the tools and platforms you will use, as well as an introduction to your fellow designers and facilitators. The 10 week course then kicks into gear, has a well-deserved break after week 5, and concludes in the 10th week with a small ceremony to celebrate your accomlishments. Live sessions such as lectures, design critiques and workshops occur on scheduled days per week, with the workshops being the only mandatory sessions. These are skills development workshops which empower you to complete each task with confidence after practicing the skills involved, often as a group. The other sessions are highly recommended, of course, but are designed to work with you and your personal schedule.
The IxDF courses are self-paced and designed for independent study without the assistance of a mentor or instructor.
Whereas, with an IxDF bootcamp, you’ll have:
An in-depth curriculum + recommended schedule of daily and weekly activities
Live class discussions with a facilitator
Personalized feedback on projects and peer critiques from your facilitator
Discussions and forums with your fellow students
A virtual classroom and common room environment
You can take the bootcamp as long as you are comfortable with reading, writing and speaking English—even if it isn't your first language
We welcome students from around the world, and in recognition of the fact that English will not be everyone’s first language, we’ve maintained a simple level of English in all our materials. And if you occasionally do get stuck, don’t worry—your facilitator will be able to help you!
Over the 20 years that we've been helping people start their careers in UX and related fields, we've constantly worked to understand what employers expect from aspiring designers, and where conventional bootcamps fail to deliver. Time and time again, employers have reported the same concern to us—that many popular bootcamps fail to produce students with the adequate depth and breadth to work effectively in a real UX or product team.
Many bootcamps pack introductions to UX, UI and User Research into a single bootcamp, often leaving students without enough time or opportunity to really master each area. Since these bootcamps do not offer enough depth and breadth in these areas, their students are often unable to showcase the expected variety and mastery of concepts to employers.
At IxDF, each bootcamp will give you exactly the kind of breadth and depth employers expect in each area. You'll devote an entire 12-week bootcamp to learning about a specific domain, and you'll create a Portfolio Project with tons of real deliverables for your portfolio. At the same time, because each specialization gets its own bootcamp, you still have the freedom to pick only those that are relevant to your goals.
Even better—once you complete 3 of these specialized bootcamps, you are eligible to join the elite IxDF UX Certification Program where you'll be certified by an expert panel as a professional UX designer, and you'll get a 6-month job guarantee along with comprehensive help with job applications, interviews and presentations.
In a nutshell: Employers want to see depth and variety in portfolios, which students struggle to achieve through conventional bootcamps that are also longer and more expensive. IxDF offers shorter, specialized bootcamps for a fraction of the price which help students to achieve mastery over UX and related fields, making them better prepared for the demands of a real job and giving them an advantage even in a competitive job market.
The Design League membership is a monthly membership that gives you 2 hours of non-structured discussion time with a mentor each month. However, the Design League does not include mentor participation outside of the 2 hours of calls.
If you’d like more hands-on guidance than what the Design League offers, the bootcamp could be right for you. In contrast to a Design League membership type, the bootcamp is a full-fledged program packed with guidance from a mentor and instructor.
As you learn fundamental theory and concepts, you'll be guided by experienced instructors.
When you work on practical projects, your mentor will help you every step of the way.
Moreover, if you enjoy learning with your peers, the bootcamp also includes peer reviews and discussion forums.
In short, as compared to the Design League, the bootcamp offers a more structured approach to learning, and more opportunities to interact with mentors, instructors and fellow students.
