3-day

Certified UI design course with Figma in London

31 May–2 Jun 2023, 13:00–18:00 (UK)
🇬🇧 London, SE16 7AR, UK
Beginners–Intermediate
£599–£698 (you can Pay in 3)

What's on

Days 1 – UI foundations, day 2 – Prototyping in Figma, day 3 – Project work

XD is sooo 2022 🫢 — it's time to up your game with Figma. This hands-on 3-day course in User Interface design is where you will learn how to use responsive grid system, create a style guide, and of course wireframing and prototyping various project briefs using Figma.

💼 You will be working on various projects with lots of practical exercises throughout the days. And you'll design your own portfolio too. One-to-one mentoring is available as a ticket option: we'll review your portfolio, provide career advice, salary insights, and prepare you for that interview.

😷 Your health & safety is super-important to us. We follow COVID government guidelines and encourage all our students to do so. Hand-sanitisers will be available for you to use. Kindly use a face mask when necessary.

📍 The course is run in-person at Canada Water Culture Space in London SE16 7AR.

Who runs it

Sergei – UX designer & entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience working with Microsoft, Heathrow and British Gas.

Our students rate us ‘Excellent’.
Come see why for yourself.

We've helped peeps from graphic, print, UX and UI design backgrounds, marketers, BAs, PMs and completely new to design (from choreographers to accountants).

For anyone who’s self-taught in UX, I’d strongly recommend this course it’s a game changer!

Maria, UX Designer @ IBM

If you’re building or improving digital products, this course will deliver real value to your team and users alike.

Gary, Product Owner @ Johnson & Johnson

Thanks to Sergei from the School of UX for delivering AI+UX training for my team. Well structured, concise and delivered with a smile.

John, UX Manager @ Ford

I landed my current role because of the portfolio piece I specifically did with The School of UX so I'm very glad I attended this short course.

Stephanie, UX Designer @ Electronic Arts

Day 1 — UI design and AI. Project work.

Learn to design actually usable UI (not just "bells and whistles" for Behance). All with practical project work on re-designing Sainsbury's supermaket self-checkout kiosk.

core UI design principles & following content-first—layout-second—styling-last process
working in Figma: from mapping semantically-structured content to responsive layout using auto-layout, and design system with components
mobile-first layout using 12-column grid system
making your design accessible and compliant with WCAG
"buttery-smooth" UI techniques following PageSpeed Insights
tips on working with software developers to ensure your design is technically feasible to implement

The School of UX improving Transport for London website

The School of UX prototyping Sainsbury's self-checkout kiosk UI in Figma

The School of UX, esponsive UI design exercise on day 2 on UI

The School of UX optimising UI performance

Day 2 — Prototyping in Figma. Project work.

Design from scratch a mobile app for a luxury car rental company Miles&Miles in London — from UX to UI in Figma.

designing a style guide as part of the design system, and reusing existing design libraries
making your UI accessible and comply with WCAG using Figma Design AI and ChatGPT
design handover workflow with Figma Dev Mode and MCP servers
setting up automated UI usability testing with OpenAI Agent and BrowserStack AI
testing in-browser, in Figma Mirror and on real devices

The School of UX, students working on a project

The School of UX designing car rental app in Figma

The School of UX, grid system covered as part of days 2 and 3 of the course

The School of UX optimising graphics for speed

Day 3 — Vibe-Coding with AI in Lovable. Project work.

Turn your mock Figma wireframes into a working app with AI-prototyping in Lovable

"Vibe-coding" in Lovable, Figma Sites and Figma Make (with no previous coding experience required)
implementing real working login flow and user registration, all connected to a database
wiring up Google Analytics to track conversions to measure performance of your design
setting up heatmaps and session replays using Hotjar / MixPanel to dig deeper into how users are interacting with your pages
writing llms.txt and structured data markup for improved SEO and GEO (so AI bots find your website too)