Learn to Design for a Better Digital World

Columbia Engineering UX/UI Boot Camp |
Become an End-to-End UX/UI Professional
in 24 Weeks

  • Global Network: Access an exclusive network of 250+ employers looking to hire.
  • 360-Degree Mastery: Go beyond UX/UI with a holistic focus on design and front end web development.
  • Learner Success: Stay on track with personalized academic support.
  • Career Support: Leverage free professional resources throughout your career.

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Next Start Date:

March 10

Time to Complete:

24 weeks, part-time

Live Online Classes:

9 hours per week

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What Is UX/UI?

Great design goes beyond stunning aesthetics. Learn to harness cutting-edge tools to create effective user-centric experiences. While UX and UI go hand in hand, they are two distinct, related disciplines. At Columbia Engineering UX/UI Boot Camp, you’ll learn both in addition to web prototyping. Your learning will culminate in a portfolio that showcases in-demand skills — from storyboards and prototypes to interactive apps and responsive websites.

UX: The Functionality

User experience (UX) design is focused on eliminating friction for the user of a product or service. UX includes interaction design; information architecture; wireframing; product design; plus user research, testing, and data.

UX designer was one of Glassdoor’s 50 Best Jobs in America for 2022.1

1Glassdoor

UI: The Look

User interface (UI) represents how users interact with and experience digital products and services. UI includes brand expression, visual communication, accessibility, graphic design, color, layout, and typography.

Digital design jobs are expected to grow 13% between 2020 and 2030 — 6% faster than the national average.2

2Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Support You Need to Transform Your Career

UX/UI is essential in our increasingly digital world. At Columbia Engineering UX/UI Boot Camp, we’re committed to equipping you with the fundamental skills you need to make an impact, while providing unparalleled support and resources before, during, and after your boot camp.

  • Stay on track with a dedicated learner success advisor.
  • edX Xpert support available for learners 24/7, 365 days a year.
  • Connect with engaged instructors, teaching assistants, and peers for academic support.
  • Additional academic services may be available in select boot camps.
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Further Your Career

Our Career Engagement Network will help you apply the tools and knowledge you have learned to advance your career. We will help you build your portfolio, optimize your resume and LinkedIn profile, and prepare for interviews. You’ll also have access to free career resources throughout your professional life.

Our Boot Camp Learners Are in Demand

Our employer-competitive learners have received job offers from thousands of global organizations. As you take the next steps in your career, you’ll have access to job referrals from our network of 250+ partners.

Innovative Curriculum. In-Demand Skills.

In 24 weeks, Columbia Engineering UX/UI Boot Camp will prepare you to become an end-to-end UX/UI professional with the hard and soft skills needed to solve big design challenges. Our curriculum is designed to help learners become code conversational in front-end web development. Learners are encouraged to understand coding basics to collaborate effectively with developers.

Our user-centric curriculum is delivered through live, online classes and high-quality coursework. Our instructors are fully vetted by the university and offer 1-on-1 virtual guidance to learners throughout the program.

Learn to understand the user journey through leading research techniques and methodologies.

What you will learn: 

  • User-centered design
  • Design research methods
  • Figma / Figjam
  • UX interviewing
  • Brainstorming, ideation, and insight synthesis
  • Personas, archetypes, and storytelling creation
  • Decision and journey mapping
  • Prototyping and iterative design
  • Accessibility and usability
  • Usability testing
  • Project management

A deep dive into the necessary skills, technologies, and frameworks designers need to master in order to create functional and engaging web and mobile applications.

What you will learn:

  • User Interface (UI) design
  • Heuristic analysis
  • HTML and CSS
  • Responsive web design (RWD)
  • Bootstrap and RWD design
  • UI patterns and libraries
  • Branding and consistency
  • Color, typography, and iconography
  • Information architecture
  • Layout and navigation design
  • Design systems and components
  • Multimodal design

Create live web applications as full-fledged prototypes and experiment with more complex user interactions.

What you will learn:

  • Web portfolios and case studies
  • Design interviewing
  • Whiteboard challenges
  • Web Hosting and no-code technologies
  • JavaScript
  • Presenting and pitching ideas
  • RWD prototyping
  • Collaborative development and design handoff

Now You’re Ready

By the time you’ve completed the boot camp, you will have mastered in-demand skills, built an impressive portfolio of relevant, real-world projects, and earned a valuable Certificate of Completion from UCF Division of Continuing Education.

Learn on Your Schedule

This is a part-time online boot camp designed for working professionals like you who want to learn UX/UI to start, advance, or excel in a design career.

Time to complete24 weeks
Live classes9 hrs/week
Homework & projects 20+ hrs/week
Class time3 weekday evenings
(3 hrs/class)

Invest in Your Career With

the Right Financial Options

UX/UI boot camp fee: $14,495

Interest-Free Payment Plan

Pay an initial deposit and split the rest of your tuition into monthly installments over the length of the boot camp with no interest.

24-month Interest-Free Payment Plan

Once approved, you’ll pay your deposit and split the remaining tuition over 24 monthly installments with zero interest.

Pay in Full Discount

Pay in full at the time of enrollment and receive $1000 off your total fee.

Alumni Scholarship

Alumni are eligible for a $500 scholarship.

edX Boot Camps does not receive any commissions or payments for referrals or successful loan applications. The lender’s loan approval criteria will apply and you should consider the terms and conditions of any loan carefully. We are not credit advisors. We make no representations about whether you will be given a loan or whether a loan will be suitable for you. We are not responsible for representations made to you by any credit provider.

What Boot Camp Learners Are Saying

  • “Overall, I enjoyed my experience with the boot camp; it was a tremendous learning opportunity and a great way to get my foot in the door to a new career. I learned the necessary methodologies and tools that are needed in today’s UX design industry.”

    Cristian P.
  • “The tools and support from Career Services [were] so helpful in my job search. They really gave me the tools to succeed.”

    Andrea N.
  • “Because of my boot camp education, I was able to build my confidence and start reaching out to potential employers to learn more about their industry. … I feel that I finally have found the perfect fit!”

    Tamara S.

A Powerful Educational Partnership

About Columbia Engineering

The mission of The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science is to expand knowledge and advance technology through research, while educating learners to become leaders informed by an engineering foundation. Enriched with the intellectual resources of a global university in the City of New York, we push disciplinary frontiers, confront complex issues, and engineer innovative solutions to address the grand challenges of our time. We create a collaborative environment that embraces interdisciplinary thought, integrated entrepreneurship, cultural awareness, and social responsibility, and advances the translation of ideas into practical innovations.

This boot camp is offered through Columbia Engineering in partnership with edX.

About edX

edX, part of 2U Inc., works with respected universities and organizations to deliver innovative, skills-based training to a community of over 45 million learners around the world to support them at every stage of their lives and careers. edX delivers boot camps through an immersive learning experience with expert services and valuable resources. As of 2021, graduates have been hired by 6,700+ companies, including more than 62% of the Fortune 100.

The Next UX/UI Boot Camp Starts March 10.
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