UX Design · First cohort 2026
Most UX courses hand you a certificate for watching videos. This one makes you earn it — 8 graded exercises ending in a capstone case study, and a credential a recruiter can verify in one click.
Module 00 · 3 lessons
Orientation
How the course works, how you'll be assessed, and getting your tools set up so nothing blocks you later.
You build: A working Figma workspace
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The problem
Free tutorials teach tools. They show you where the buttons are in Figma. What they can’t do is tell you whether the thing you just made is any good, or why the hierarchy on your screen isn’t working, or what a hiring manager will think when they open your portfolio.
That gap — between recognising good design and producing it — only closes with feedback on your own work, repeated. This course is built entirely around that loop.
How it works
Feedback
You submit a screen; Savinda reviews it himself against the rubric — hierarchy, contrast, spacing, affordance, alignment — and tells you what to change. Not a checkbox, not a template. This is why the cohort is capped: there are only so many reviews one person can do properly.
Retention
Every module has a spaced-repetition deck that resurfaces the ideas right before you'd forget them. You finish able to use the vocabulary in a meeting, not just recognise it in a video.
Proof
Cryptographically signed, with a public verification page anyone can open — no account, no login. It's earned by finishing every lesson, passing every quiz and getting the capstone approved. That's what makes it worth showing.
Practice
Nine modules, nine artifacts, ending in a capstone case study built to survive a hiring manager's ninety-second skim. The work is the point; the videos are how you get there.
Curriculum
Each module ends with an artifact that goes into your portfolio. The first two are free — start before you pay anything.
How the course works, how you'll be assessed, and getting your tools set up so nothing blocks you later.
3 lessons
You buildA working Figma workspace
The mental model everything else hangs from. Why process beats talent, and how to think about users, tasks and context.
7 lessons
You buildA process map for a real product
Finding out what's true instead of what's convenient. Interviews, surveys, and turning messy transcripts into decisions.
8 lessons
You buildA research plan and affinity map
Structure people can navigate without thinking. Sitemaps, flows, and testing whether your labels make sense to anyone but you.
7 lessons
You buildA sitemap and primary user flow
Turning flows into screens. Layout, forms, states, and the microcopy that carries more weight than the visuals.
8 lessons
You buildA complete wireframe set
The craft layer. Type, colour, spacing and hierarchy as systems you can defend, not preferences you happen to hold.
9 lessons
You buildA mini design system
Making it move, for a reason. Fidelity that matches the question you're trying to answer.
7 lessons
You buildAn interactive prototype
Finding out whether it works before you ship it. Running sessions, reading results, and knowing what to fix first.
7 lessons
You buildA usability test report
The part most courses skip. Turning the work you just did into something that gets you hired.
7 lessons
You buildA complete case study — your capstone
The credential
Every certificate is cryptographically signed and published at a permanent verification URL. Anyone can open it — no account, no login — and confirm it’s real, who earned it, and what they had to do to get it.
Certificate of completion
Eleanor Hartley
has completed
UX Design: Foundations to Portfolio
signifier.academy/verify/SIG-UX1-2026-00042
Who’s teaching
The free series covered the ideas. What it couldn’t do was look at your work and tell you what to fix. That’s what this is for.
Watch the free series on YouTube →One course, done properlyThis is the only thing being taught here, and it will stay that way until it’s genuinely good. A narrow course reviewed by a person beats a broad catalogue nobody finishes.
Join the list and you’ll get the free lessons as they’re released, plus first access and founding-member pricing when enrolment opens.