Advance your career by earning Course Certificates from the IDF.

You earn a Course Certificate for each course you complete to prove your achievements. Course Certificates from the IDF are verifiable and trusted by industry leaders. You can highlight the Course Certificates on your resume, CV, LinkedIn profile or your website.

Our courses and Course Certificates are trusted by these industry leaders, who have taken up company memberships with the IDF:

Join meet-ups in your city for learning and networking.

IDF meet-ups are events all over the world where people frequently meet up and have quality interactions — events where people smile, laugh, learn, and advance their careers. It's a global movement to advocate great design and what great design can do for humankind. Nothing less.

Display your commitment to great UX and continual learning on your Public Profile page. Your Course Certificates, as well as distinctions earned in courses, will also be displayed on your Profile.

Note: for Student Members, your public profile will show that you are a student. For the most professional public profile that works best for career networking, please sign up for a Professional Membership.

Enjoy unlimited downloads of our literature as an IDF member:

• iPad/tablet-optimized version and PDF version of all our online textbooks written by 100+ leading designers, bestselling authors and Ivy League professors.
• Self-service export to all popular formats, such as ePub.
• Pre-publication access to all textbooks—read them before everybody else does.

You can use our curated list of UX tools and services to make your work life easier (or more profitable). You get significant discounts on most of these products so your membership will have paid for itself if you buy just one of these products.

Disclosure: We do not receive commission or charge a fee for listing these products. We are impartial and pass on the entire discounts to our members.

IDF Discussions are quality discussions with high signal-to-noise ratio—a safe harbor for discussing matters with your peers.

We help each other navigate practical and theoretical issues regarding the design of interactive systems—all faster and more direct than paging through endless research reports.

As a member, you're part of a transformative project that provides free, high-quality educational materials to everybody from New Delhi to New York.

Help us realize the UN goal of giving universal access to high-quality education as “a key to building peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue.”

Whether you are looking to hire a new colleague or looking for a job yourself, we can help!

As an IDF member, you'll have access to job boards that are specific for designers and our members. You will have the complete overview of who is hiring and what skills are most sought.

Through our Local Groups initiative you can also connect with people and companies in your area and meet them physically.

Personal coaches are at the core of the IDF Design League program. Choose your own personal coach from one of our handpicked selection of coaches, all of whom are experts in design with many years of experience.

Your personal coach:

• Guides you to set your career goals and learning objectives
• Plans together with you activities that bring you towards your goals
• Supercharges your learning from courses with guidance and insightful tips
• Shares with you about industry standard best practices and deliverables
• Helps you with any questions, through private chat sessions as well as Skype video sessions