Research, personas, wireframes, testing, handover: same thinking, different practice.
For a true beginner, we never have to teach you how UX was done before AI — only how it is done now. No unlearning, no legacy habits.
Anyone can prompt an AI tool. Telling a good result from a bad one takes exactly the fundamentals this course teaches: your target user, your business goal, your user need. Without them, you cannot write a useful prompt.
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“The course has been absolutely fantastic. The teachers have been brilliant and very attentive. Definitely recommend for obtaining real life experience and developing a grounding in UX.”
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.”
Ongoing one-to-one support from a working UX designer who reviews your work, not a video library.
Work a real brief from a real company and present it back to their decision maker.
See 26 real client case studies →Graduate with a case study built on real work, not a made-up exercise -- the thing that gets you hired.
Each module maps to a real deliverable. By week 8 you have worked through the full process on a live client brief.
Already working as a UX designer? The Advanced UX Design course is for you →
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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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Learn the core principles of human-centred design and how usability and behavioural principles shape what users expect. Run your first heuristic evaluation of a real product.
Plan and run interviews and surveys, then synthesise what you hear into actionable insights about real user needs and behaviours.
Structure content and navigation so users always know where they are and how to get where they need to go.
Turn sketches into digital wireframes and interactive prototypes in Figma before a line of code is written.
Design and moderate usability tests with real users; identify and prioritise the issues that matter most.
Apply everything to a live brief from a real client and build your first portfolio-ready case study.
Package your work into a portfolio and practise presenting it to hiring teams.
Use AI assistants to accelerate research synthesis, ideation, and content generation -- and build the judgement to evaluate what AI gives you against your target user, business goal, and user need.
Every student completes a real client brief. These are portfolio pieces made during the 8-week course.
Work shown with graduate permission. Real client briefs — not made-up exercises.
According to ITJobsWatch, the median advertised salary for a UX Designer in the UK is £55,000 (2026-06). Entry-level roles start at £28,000–£40,000.
Lead Product Designer
Natalia is Lead Product Designer at Carbonia Web, with 20 years of experience covering user research through to interaction design. She is curious about human behaviour and how people’s minds work, and is a recipient of the Adobe XD London award. In her free time she writes about design and mentors emerging talent.
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.
Author, Speaker, Leader, Advisor
Ben is a former Product Director at Babylon Health, where he led teams of designers, clinicians, data scientists, and engineers on AI-based products worth $100m+. He has trained teams in Voice Design internationally for O’Reilly, including NASA, and advises organisations globally on digital product strategy.
Lead Product Designer
Goncalo Andrade is a London-based Lead Product Designer at YLD with more than 14 years of experience across product, service and UX design. He has contributed to projects for organisations including EDF, Aviva, Lloyds Banking Group and Croud, turning complex user and business needs into practical digital products. At UX Academy, Goncalo teaches Beginning UX (AI) Design, helping students develop skills in user research, problem definition, journey mapping, prototyping and usability testing while working towards a portfolio-ready case study.
Graduate outcomes
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Deposit to secure your place. Full course fee £1,500.
Cohort 1 — 21 September 2026 · 15 places max
| UX Academy | Competitors | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | £1,500 | up to £9,000 |
| Live teaching | Yes, every session | Often pre-recorded |
| Cohort size | Max 15 students | 50 to 500+ |
| Real client project | Included | Rarely included |
Balance of £1,401 payable by invoice before the course starts. Interest-free payment plans available on request.
“The course has been absolutely fantastic. The teachers have been brilliant and very attentive. Definitely recommend for obtaining real life experience and developing a grounding in UX.”
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