Designlab
Designlab is an online training provider that teaches in-demand UX/UI design skills through their UX Academy and short courses. Designlab’s top-tier online programs connect students with expert design mentors, empowering them to launch and advance their career in digital design. Whether students are transitioning into UX design with Designlab’s flagship UX Academy or refining their skills through advanced courses designed for seasoned designers and design teams, Designlab offers meticulously crafted programs to help learners achieve their goals.
With mentorship and community at the core of every course, students benefit from weekly 1:1 video calls in UX Academy and UX Academy Foundations, as well as small peer group sessions in advanced and short courses. Through personalized feedback and guidance, Designlab’s network of experienced mentors helps students navigate the design industry, offering career advice and insights into market trends from a professional’s perspective.
To apply for the UX Academy, applicants need to fill out an online application, and schedule a call with a Designlab representative. Applicants should have a love of good design, a grounding in design fundamentals, and commitment and resilience.
789 Designlab Reviews
ConnieGraduate • 4. Design 101 • OnlineJul 08, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/AExcellent Design Course
I came into this course with no background in digital design and I now look at it with a different perspective. The great part of Designlab courses is the amazing mentor sessions. In addition to the written responses on the course platform, you discuss your projects in the weekly mentor sessions. I was lucky to have Ajay as my mentor. He was patient and answered any confusion I have in each unit. There is also a Slack channel that students and staff can interact in. This community is ver...I came into this course with no background in digital design and I now look at it with a different perspective. The great part of Designlab courses is the amazing mentor sessions. In addition to the written responses on the course platform, you discuss your projects in the weekly mentor sessions. I was lucky to have Ajay as my mentor. He was patient and answered any confusion I have in each unit. There is also a Slack channel that students and staff can interact in. This community is very useful for an online design course. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience with Designlab.- Valiantsin BalanovichCopywriter • Graduate • 4. Design 101 • OnlineJul 07, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
My best choice in terms of short courses so far
in the 4 weeks with designlab, I learned enough to know I want to give up my work as a copywriter and have a career in this field, even though I am color blind. I had a lot of theory and practice and my mentor Sara gave me so much advice in such a short time that I can't believe how my skills and designer's taste improved. WoW. I mean, it's just four weeks, during which, of course, I was working hard on my homework but still, it's just four weeks. I am definitely applying for UX academy ...in the 4 weeks with designlab, I learned enough to know I want to give up my work as a copywriter and have a career in this field, even though I am color blind. I had a lot of theory and practice and my mentor Sara gave me so much advice in such a short time that I can't believe how my skills and designer's taste improved. WoW. I mean, it's just four weeks, during which, of course, I was working hard on my homework but still, it's just four weeks. I am definitely applying for UX academy and hoping they accept me - Whitney BiceGraduate • 4. Design 101 • OnlineJun 01, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Great for those getting started!
This was my first step to a career change! I plan to move forward into the UX Academy with Designlab.
This course was a great tool to get started in UX! You learn everything you need to know before jumping into a longer and more expensive course! The best part is your mentor who is beyond helpful throughout the entire course! You get plenty of time to work with them and they offer great notes and suggestions on your projects!
I would absolutely suggest this course to anyone ge...This was my first step to a career change! I plan to move forward into the UX Academy with Designlab.
This course was a great tool to get started in UX! You learn everything you need to know before jumping into a longer and more expensive course! The best part is your mentor who is beyond helpful throughout the entire course! You get plenty of time to work with them and they offer great notes and suggestions on your projects!
I would absolutely suggest this course to anyone getting started or even interested in UX! - Laura BugelliStudent • 4. Design 101 • OnlineMay 06, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Design 101 experience!
Overall great experience with DesignLab on Design 101 course! I've decided that this would be the year of changing careers into UX Design (yes, 2020 out of all years!), but as a complete newly to the design world, I needed to gather some basic knowledge before moving forward with my studies. I've went through the lectures during the 4 weeks of the course quite effortlessly, they seem to follow a consistent rhythm, demanding effort from you with at least 4 deliverable projects per week, b...Overall great experience with DesignLab on Design 101 course! I've decided that this would be the year of changing careers into UX Design (yes, 2020 out of all years!), but as a complete newly to the design world, I needed to gather some basic knowledge before moving forward with my studies. I've went through the lectures during the 4 weeks of the course quite effortlessly, they seem to follow a consistent rhythm, demanding effort from you with at least 4 deliverable projects per week, but not overloading you with work that makes you feel overwhelmed and unmotivated (of course that being stuck home quarantining all the time also helped).
The nicest aspect of it all, besides having a project to make you look forward to lessons and advancing on building your own results, I also really enjoyed the experience of having a mentor that would go through my improvement every week through video call sessions and help me analyze if I'm making the right decision on moving to Design, how the market and the work look like, tips of resources and references to help me kick things off... Besides, of course, evaluation of my work and making comments on what I'm nailing and what I could improve. I graded it as not 100% helpful on Job Assistance because, as it sets out to be, it is a Design course designed (aha!) to gather basic principles and not sure if you can really consider yourself a full-on designer after this 1 month of online course, but if you want to learn more about the job (either for fun or for longer-term planning), I definitely recommend the course and the school after my really pleasant and easy experience! - GalynaGraduate • 4. Design 101 • OnlineMay 05, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Great design course for those entering this field
Great design course for those new to the design! I really enjoyed working with my mentor, learned a ton of new staff! Highly recommend! - AmyGraduate • 4. Design 101 • OnlineMar 10, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Awesome intro to design
I came into this course with absolutely zero design experience and finished feeling like I could call myself a designer. The course offers excellent content and mentorship and exceeded my expectations. A strong commitment and motivation are required, but there was so much to gain and to me it was worth the time and price. Highly recommend especially if you do not have much (or any) design experience and plan to get into UX! - Andrew LuistroStudent • 4. Design 101 • OnlineMar 10, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
I couldn't have picked a better place to start my UX Design journey.
I came into this course knowing absolutely nothing about design, and I came out of it as prepared as I could have ever hoped to be. It really teaches you the basics of design from a completely blank slate, and does so in a manner that's easy to understand. The projects are wonderfully tiered so that they really build on each other and allow you to learn in a hands-on manner. The mentor calls were an invaluable resource for feedback. Having someone to bounce ideas off of or to answer gene...I came into this course knowing absolutely nothing about design, and I came out of it as prepared as I could have ever hoped to be. It really teaches you the basics of design from a completely blank slate, and does so in a manner that's easy to understand. The projects are wonderfully tiered so that they really build on each other and allow you to learn in a hands-on manner. The mentor calls were an invaluable resource for feedback. Having someone to bounce ideas off of or to answer general questions really allowed me to learn "how things are" in the real world that only serves to supplement the course. I could not recommend this place enough. - Barbara JewellGraduate • 4. Design 101 • OnlineJan 13, 2020Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Design 101
I would definitely recommend the Designlab's Design 101. Although I wasn't originally planning on taking it, it's a pre-requisite for enrolling on their UX Academy - and so worth it! Lots of good, useful information, the course material is interesting and easy to digest, the platform is visually appealing and intuitive, and my favorite - excellent mentoring.
On a side note, I wasn't a fan of their file upload limit (I had to find a file compressor online), and the estimated time for c...I would definitely recommend the Designlab's Design 101. Although I wasn't originally planning on taking it, it's a pre-requisite for enrolling on their UX Academy - and so worth it! Lots of good, useful information, the course material is interesting and easy to digest, the platform is visually appealing and intuitive, and my favorite - excellent mentoring.
On a side note, I wasn't a fan of their file upload limit (I had to find a file compressor online), and the estimated time for completing lessons and projects is way off - it took me almost double the time to complete, if not more.Overall it was a great experience to go from no design background to building a project of my own that I'm proud of!
- Matthew PittmanStudent • 7. UI Design • OnlineAug 31, 2019Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
Ui Design
I greatly enjoyed this course! The content was well organized and beneficial to my learning. My mentor was great. She provided timely feedback on my work which was great. I would recommend this course to anyone with a penchant for design.
- K.NelsonAug 13, 2019Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob Assistance
UX Academy
I did a lot research before deep diving into a bootcamp. Glad I chose Designlab. What set this bootcamp apart for me aside the price was the helpfulness of having one on one mentorship meetings weekly to go over material and the career services portion after graduation has been better than my college career services when I received my bachelors. - Mary SchwabStudent • 4. Design 101 • OnlineAug 08, 2019Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Great intro to Visual Design
As a newbie to visual design, I really enjoyed Design 101 with one highlight being my DesignLab mentor as I found his feedback very helpful. He was very flexible in terms of our meeting times, and happy to reschedule when I had other work commitments pop up. He provided thoughtful feedback in my designs, but did not necessarily tell me exactly what decisions to make (which I appreciated). He was helpful in showing examples when I was stuck on certain decisions in the visual design process....
As a newbie to visual design, I really enjoyed Design 101 with one highlight being my DesignLab mentor as I found his feedback very helpful. He was very flexible in terms of our meeting times, and happy to reschedule when I had other work commitments pop up. He provided thoughtful feedback in my designs, but did not necessarily tell me exactly what decisions to make (which I appreciated). He was helpful in showing examples when I was stuck on certain decisions in the visual design process. I learned a lot in this course and felt challenged. Overall my experience throughout Design 101 was great!
- MichaelDesigner • Student • 5. UX Research & Strategy • OnlineAug 06, 2019Overall ExperienceInstructorsCurriculumJob AssistanceN/A
Great for getting down the core UX concepts
Like anything in life, you get out of this course what you put into it. It's self-paced and there are no deadlines (which I didn't love), but there is a lot of good content and the most important thing for me was my mentor, who was awesome. She really helped guide me through the concepts, how to apply them, pitfalls to watch out for, etc.
I had always known about various UX concepts, but this course helped me focus on which ones were industry standards and gave me confidence to ...
Like anything in life, you get out of this course what you put into it. It's self-paced and there are no deadlines (which I didn't love), but there is a lot of good content and the most important thing for me was my mentor, who was awesome. She really helped guide me through the concepts, how to apply them, pitfalls to watch out for, etc.
I had always known about various UX concepts, but this course helped me focus on which ones were industry standards and gave me confidence to use terms and apply concepts in actual conversations with clients. Probably the best thing for me was that I was able to use concepts as soon as the second week on a client project and help drive their UX strategy.
In the end it was well worth the cost.
Pros: - great mentor
- good contentCons: - no deadlines
- "prototype" project is kind of lame
- I struggled to get through all the materials on time (mostly out of laziness)
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How much does Designlab cost?
Designlab costs around $7,749. On the lower end, some Designlab courses like 1. UX Academy Foundations cost $499.
What courses does Designlab teach?
Designlab offers courses like 1. UX Academy Foundations, 2. UX Academy (Part-time), 3. UX Academy (Full-time), 4. Data-Driven Design and 5 more.
Where does Designlab have campuses?
Designlab teaches students Online in a remote classroom.
Is Designlab worth it?
Designlab hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 789 Designlab alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Designlab on Course Report - you should start there!
Is Designlab legit?
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Does Designlab offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
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