Product Design Bootcamp
Prepare for a career in product design with a bootcamp that will take you from a complete beginner to a design pro
Qualification
Industry Certificate
Duration
45 weeks
Commitment
20 hours weekly
Skill Level
Beginner to Intermediate
Delivery
Weekly instruction, feedback, and support
Start Date
First Monday of each month
Led By
Experienced industry instructors
Features
Flexible schedules and small class sizes (5 max)
Value
Flexible, affordable, high-quality education
From novice to product designer
Immerse yourself in a bootcamp that covers every aspect of product design.
In this bootcamp, you’ll gain expertise in using industry-standard tools like Figma, mastering design principles, and creating products that are both beautiful and functional. With a strong emphasis on hands-on learning, you’ll work on real-world projects that challenge you to apply your skills in meaningful ways. From the basics of visual design to conducting user research, developing a UX strategy, and creating a fully realized UI design, the bootcamp culminates in a capstone project that highlights your ability to develop comprehensive design solutions, preparing you for a successful career in the dynamic field of product design.
The Charlotte x Flatiron School difference:
Learn to conduct user research, design digital applications using design principles, and craft user-centered interfaces.
Train on industry-standard software and gain production experience
Be mentored by a world-class product designer
Small group classes (max 5 students)
Career services built-in
Career services is included with each capstone and bootcamp program. Designed by and for tech professionals, you'll experience a full technical interview process from start to finish, getting direct and personalized feedback each step of the way. Visit the career services page to learn more about the full process.
Prerequisites: No prior experience necessary. This bootcamp takes you from novice to pro.
Curriculum
Industry-approved curriculum to support your journey into product design
Introduction to Design Techniques - 3 weeks
This course covers the fundamentals of design, using Figma to build your skills. You'll learn visual design basics, create layouts, add typography and color, and build interactive prototypes. The course concludes with a project where you develop your own design, apply feedback, and use design methodologies and project management frameworks to prepare for a product design career.
What you’ll learn:
- Compare user research (UR), user experience (UX), and user interface (UI) as elements of the product design skill set
- Implement fundamental designs with industry standard tools like Figma
- Apply product design frameworks to a design project
Introduction to Responsible Design - 3 weeks
This course teaches you to integrate responsible design methods into your projects, focusing on ethical, inclusive, and accessible solutions. You'll explore product design pillars, common methodologies, and the product life cycle, emphasizing iteration and user-centered design. The course concludes with a project where you'll assess the ethical impacts of a product solution and make recommendations. You'll gain skills to critically examine product choices and contribute responsibly to a design team.
What you’ll learn:
- Utilize frameworks and approaches for solving design problems while balancing user and business needs
- Implement foundational methodologies and techniques to creating ethical, inclusive, and accessible products
- Apply foundational design principles
Integrating Art and Visual Design - 3 weeks
This course focuses on visual design for product development, covering principles of visual hierarchy, composition, color, typography, imagery, and layout grids. You'll learn to create balanced, informative designs for web and mobile interfaces. The course concludes with a project where you'll apply your knowledge to develop a user-friendly layout based on user and business goals, incorporating accessible, industry-standard practices.
What you’ll learn:
- Apply visual principles to improve a design layout
- Integrate accessible and inclusive visual design choices
- Demonstrate the ability to balance responsible design methodologies with user and business goals in design solutions
User Research - 3 weeks
This course teaches you to excel in user research, including designing research plans, crafting surveys and interviews, and recruiting participants. You'll evaluate existing research materials to ensure they meet best practices. The course culminates in a project where you'll assess research artifacts and provide feedback to improve overall research objectives.
What you'll learn:
- Define the initial research approach
- Evaluate initial user research plan
- Integrate methodologies for conducting research
- Strategize to develop and communicate the direction of the research design
Navigating the User Research Process - 3 weeks
This course focuses on evaluating research data and communicating findings to stakeholders. You'll learn to assess existing research and present data clearly and effectively to various audiences. The course concludes with a project where you'll prepare a stakeholder presentation for a user research project.
What you'll learn:
- Define the research approach
- Evaluate research plan
- Integrate methodologies for conducting, analyzing, and synthesizing research
- Strategize to communicate research findings to stakeholders
User Experience Design - 3 weeks
This course introduces Lean UX, focusing on user-centered design through continuous feedback and iteration. You'll learn to turn ideas into testable prototypes, conduct user testing, and validate design solutions. The course ends with a project where you'll apply UX recommendations to improve existing prototypes.
What you'll learn:
- Define Lean UX and explain the role of MVPs (Minimum Viable Product) in generating continuous feedback
- Identify strategies to ideate and converge on a solution for an initial problem
- Assess how well prototypes address established design objectives
Information Architecture - 3 weeks
This course explores Information Architecture, a key aspect of UX design focused on organizing and labeling content for usability and navigation. You'll learn to conduct research, evaluate IA, and apply techniques like card sorting and task flows. By the end, you'll be able to create user-centered prototypes, communicate design decisions, and complete a project to present your findings to stakeholders.
What you'll learn:
- Explain how secondary research provides context to a design problem
- Evaluate information architecture
- Evaluate effectiveness of usability testing approach against research objectives
- Communicate UI designs to teammates and stakeholders
User Interface Design - 3 weeks
This course covers UI design principles, including usability heuristics, responsive design, and accessibility. You'll learn to evaluate interfaces, implement UI patterns, and ensure designs are accessible. The course project involves performing a heuristic evaluation, assessing accessibility and usability issues, and providing recommendations to improve existing UI patterns.
What you'll learn:
- Perform a heuristic evaluation
- Evaluate pattern implementation and accessibility
- Provide recommendations for improving usability and accessibility
Design Systems - 3 weeks
This course teaches you to design beautiful and functional interfaces, focusing on user-centered design principles. You'll learn usability checks, responsive layouts, clear UI messaging, and design systems. The course covers testing to ensure your designs are intuitive, accessible, and meet user needs and business goals.
What you'll learn:
- Create designs that adhere to the rules of a design system
- Create feedback about results of interactions
- Annotate designs to communicate implementation concerns
- Provide recommendations for improving usability and accessibility
Portfolio and Case Studies - 3 weeks
This course helps you launch your design career by crafting a compelling portfolio and case studies. You'll learn to showcase your skills, tell engaging stories, master interview techniques, and apply industry best practices to secure your ideal design job. By the end, you'll be well-prepared to impress potential employers.
What you'll learn:
- Create a case study that illustrates the value of completed work
- Develop a UI/UX designer portfolio
- Solve for design challenges in the interview process
Product Design Capstone - 15 weeks
In this intensive capstone, you'll develop three projects focused on solving business problems, integrating skills from previous courses. You'll execute research, apply UX design methods, use visual and interaction design principles, and communicate findings to stakeholders. The course culminates in creating a case study and incorporating it into your design portfolio.
What you'll do:
- Execute a research plan, synthesize for a user research project
- Execute appropriate methods of iteration and testing to generate insights to a UX design
- Execute visual design and interaction principles to create an intuitive interface
- Communicate findings for the appropriate stakeholders
- Create a case study and integrate into design portfolio
Tuition
Upfront - Save 42%
$9,500*
Pay as You Go - Save 36%
$10,500
12 monthly payments of $875
Financed Tuition - Save 18%
$13,500
Monthly payments as low as $298**
*To celebrate our ongoing partnership with GitHub, we're reducing the cost of our part-time and full-time bootcamps from $16.5K to $9.5K for a limited time, starting with our March 3, 2025 cohorts. Apply by February 24th, 2025 to be eligible for the March 3rd, 2025 cohort. Only the first 50 students to enroll for the March 3rd cohort will receive the promotion price. The total price is dependent on the financing option chosen. This offer excludes the Game Design and Game Programming Bootcamps as well as Essentials and Modular Bootcamp course pathway. Not available for Georgia residents.
Possible Careers
The demand for Product Designers remains at an all-time high. Here are some in-demand jobs you could land.
Product Designer
Product Designers are a jack of all trades with a deep understanding of UI and UX. They research business competition and are keen on business goals.
UX Designer
UX Designers focus on creating user-friendly interfaces and experiences for digital products. They conduct user research and testing to understand user needs and improve product usability. A strong background in design principles and user psychology is beneficial for this role.
Graphic Designer
Graphic Designers create visual concepts to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers. They use various design software to develop layouts and designs for print and digital media. Creativity and attention to detail are key attributes for success in this field.
Bootcamp Courses
Whether you’re a beginner or already have experience, we have programs for your skill level and area of interest.
Product Design Capstone
Bring all your skills together in a capstone project that challenges you to create a complete product design solution
Product Design Foundations II
Advance your skills in design systems, information architecture, testing, and prototyping
Product Design Foundations I
Dive into the world of user research and UX design to create intuitive, user-friendly interfaces
Product Design Essentials
Explore the essentials of design, accessibility, and inclusive design while mastering industry-standard tools like Figma
FAQs
To celebrate Flatiron's partnership with GitHub, we’re offering reduced bootcamp pricing—from $16.5K to $9.5K—for a limited time. Here’s how you can take advantage of this offer:
- Apply by February 24, 2025 to be eligible for the March 3, 2025 cohort.
- Be one of the first 50 students to enroll in the March 3rd cohort to secure the promotional price.
Please note:
- The final price depends on the financing option you choose.
- This offer excludes Game Design, Game Programming, Essentials, and Modular Bootcamp course pathways.
- The promotion is not available for Georgia residents.
Don’t miss this opportunity—apply today!
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Our programs are not currently set up to accept military benefits, such as the GI Bill, as a form of payment directly from the student at this time. However, if your military benefits can be arranged to pay the school directly, this may be an option in rare cases.
No, you do not need a college degree to enroll in our programs. A high school diploma or GED is the only educational requirement. Our programs are designed to be accessible to a wide range of students with diverse backgrounds.
No, we do not accept FAFSA or traditional financial aid for our programs. However, we do offer loans for full-time students, as well as interest-free installment plans and upfront payment options for everyone else. Please contact us for more details about these flexible payment options.
It is occasionally possible to skip the Essentials program and go directly to Foundations I. However, we highly recommend that most students do not skip Essentials as it covers a tremendous amount of information and skills that will be used throughout the entire career pathway program and will require some catching up if skipped. The Essentials program is still difficult and covers a great deal of material that is necessary for proceeding in the following programs and won't be reviewed in Foundations. All of the future program material will build upon the essentials. If you would like to be considered to enter directly into the Foundations-level programs, you'll be required to submit materials demonstrating your proficiency in the materials covered in the Essentials program.
Nope! This program is designed for complete beginners—no experience required.
Yes! Upon the completion of each program in the pathway, you will receive a Credly digital badge from UNC Charlotte and a completion certificate from Flatiron School. Digital badges can be used in email signatures or digital resumes, and certificates can be displayed on portfolio websites and social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Thousands of our community members use their program certificates and badges to demonstrate skills to potential employers — including our hiring partners — along with their LinkedIn networks. This curriculum is powered by Flatiron School, whose programs are well-regarded by many top employers, who contribute to our curriculum, hire our community, and partner with us to train their own teams.
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Let’s Get You Hired!
Career services are included with each capstone and bootcamp program. Designed by and for tech professionals, you’ll experience a full, technical interview process from start to finish, getting direct and personalized feedback each step of the way.
It's easy to apply and get started in our programs in just a few short weeks
- Apply
- Pay $99 deposit
- Sign Enrollment Agreement
- Secure financing or pay in full
Essentials is the first building block to starting a career in the field of your choosing. Learn the basics and build from there!
Our Foundations programs are the second step in our three-part curriculum where you will learn advanced concepts and techniques needed to become professional in the field of your choosing!
In the Capstone program, you will be expected to bring all your skills from Essentials and Foundations together to develop portfolio projects while beginning to meet with your Career Coach to prepare for your job search!
Weekly or bi-weekly meetings with your coach to review:
- Wins & challenges
- Review job openings
- Interview prep
- Salary negotiations
Certificate in hand, support doesn't end with the completion of curriculum and career services.
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