The shift this course makes
“With 3 years of UX design experience, the course was a great way of consolidating knowledge and putting theory into practice. Much more industry-oriented than university — we worked on a project from start to finish, building every part to create a strong portfolio piece.”
Here's what Week 3 of the course looks like in practice.
“The Wednesday drop-ins were honestly the most valuable part. I could share my screen and my instructor would just tell me exactly what was not working.”
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Find a comparable live UX course for less? We’ll match it.
Same live instruction and named instructors as courses costing several times more. See the full UK comparison.
| Live UX course | Price |
|---|---|
| UX Academy | from £1,500 |
| BrainStation | Not published |
| UX Design Institute | ~€2,995 |
| General Assembly | £9,000 |
London courses, verified June 2026. Price-match applies to comparable live, multi-week, mentored UX courses.
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Module breakdown, weekly schedule, and entry requirements.
Senior designers annotate their decisions. Document your reasoning with the same rigour as the design itself.
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Frame design decisions in business terms and present to stakeholders who did not ask for your opinion. You work on a real client project from day one.
Map component relationships and design for scale, not just the screen in front of you.
Run diary studies, contextual inquiry, and triangulated synthesis to surface non-obvious insights, then distil them with structured synthesis exercises.
Lead design critiques, establish review rituals, and scale quality across a team. Validate ideas with usability versus concept testing.
Test risky assumptions in hours with high-fidelity Figma prototypes before committing to build. Use How-Might-We statements and advanced ideation to frame the problem.
Bring every skill together on a live brief, present to the client, and produce a case study that demonstrates senior thinking.
Every student completes a real client brief. These are portfolio pieces from across UX Academy courses -- each one is labelled with the course it came from.
Work shown with graduate permission. Real client briefs — not made-up exercises.
Senior Product Designer
Jonathan is Senior Product Designer at localhost.company. He was previously Corporate UX Design Lead at the Kistler Group, leading that organisation’s design strategy, and before that a UX Researcher at the University of Vienna Applied Sciences. He specialises in influencing project teams to make user-centred decisions that serve both business and user goals, and is especially interested in the value of design and the scaling of design systems.
Graduate outcomes
Not a highlight reel. Real transitions, real timelines.
The salary jump
Mid-level UX: £45k-£60k
Senior UX: £60k-£75k
The gap between mid-level and senior is not more years of the same work. It is stakeholder influence, systems thinking, and leading design decisions rather than responding to them.
Our graduates have gone on to roles at companies across tech, finance, healthcare, government, and beyond.
Deposit to secure your place. Full course fee £1,500.
Balance of £1,401 payable by invoice before the course starts. Interest-free payment plans available on request.
Cohort 1 — 12 October 2026 · 15 places max
“With 3 years of UX design experience, the course was a great way of consolidating knowledge and putting theory into practice. Much more industry-oriented than university — we worked on a project from start to finish, building every part to create a strong portfolio piece.”
Need a payment plan? Get in touch. 30% scholarship available.
The course is 100% live online. You join small live classes over Zoom on Wednesday evenings (6:00 to 8:30pm UK time) from anywhere in the UK or abroad; there is no in-person attendance and no commute. Every session is recorded, so you can catch up if you miss one.
You should have at least 3 years of dedicated UX design experience working inside a team or client-facing role. If you have strong UI skills but no UX experience, the Beginner course may be a better starting point.
Not if you have real professional experience. The course assumes you can already run a usability test and deliver a wireframe. It focuses on the skills that differentiate senior designers: stakeholder communication, systems thinking, and design leadership.
One live session per week (Wednesday evenings, 6:00 to 8:30pm UK time) plus 3 to 4 hours of project work. Budget 5 to 6 hours per week total across 6 weeks.
The £99 deposit is refundable within 14 days of booking. Cancel after that but before the course starts and the deposit is forfeited, though any balance you have paid is refunded in full. Once the course has started no refund is available, except at our discretion in exceptional circumstances.
Yes. 30% scholarship for designers from underrepresented groups. Apply on the scholarship page.
Application. The course forces you to use the frameworks on your actual work, in front of an instructor and peers who give direct feedback.
UX Academy certificates do not expire and are outcomes-focused: each one names the live project you completed, the skills you demonstrated, and the instructor who assessed your work. Employers verify quality through your portfolio and the specificity of what you built, not the name on the certificate.
The Advanced UX Design course is for practising UX/UI designers with 3+ years of professional experience who feel like they have hit a ceiling: they can execute a brief but struggle to get stakeholder buy-in, lead design critiques, or shape what gets built rather than just responding to it. It is not a beginner introduction: if you have fewer than 3 years of hands-on UX experience, the Beginner UX (AI) Design course is the right starting point.
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