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.
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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.
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.”
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.
No. This course is built specifically for career changers with no prior design experience. The only requirement is curiosity and the ability to commit to 8 weeks of evening sessions.
Because the UX design process has not changed: every step of it, from research to wireframes to testing, now involves AI. As a true beginner you never have to learn how it used to be done: you only learn how it is done today. The scarce skill is judging AI output, and that judgement comes from exactly the fundamentals this course teaches (knowing your target user, your business goal, and your user need), which is what lets you write a useful prompt and tell a good result from a bad one.
One live session per week (Wednesday evenings, 6:00 to 8:30pm UK time) plus 3 to 4 hours of independent project work. Budget 5 to 6 hours per week total.
Figma is the primary design tool, and it is free. Maze or Useberry for usability testing; Notion for project organisation. No paid subscriptions required.
A certificate in Beginner UX (AI) Design, a portfolio with a real client project case study, and continued access to the UX Academy community.
Yes. UX Academy offers a 30% scholarship for designers from underrepresented groups, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+, students with disabilities, and students with low income. Apply on the scholarship page.
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.
Probably better than you expect. Not finishing a self-paced course is usually a problem of accountability rather than ability - nobody noticed you had stopped. Here a named instructor sees your work every week, fifteen classmates notice when you go quiet, and a real client is expecting something real. Anything you covered before is an advantage: this is eight weeks and it moves fast, so turning up already comfortable in Figma means you spend that time on the thinking rather than on the tool.
Every session is live: a named instructor, maximum 15 students. Real feedback on your work every week, not videos to watch at your own pace.
Hiring managers at agencies and in-house UX teams consistently tell us the portfolio matters far more than the certificate provider. Your graduation from UX Academy includes a real client project case study built under a live brief - the kind of work that gets you interviews. Named graduates including Alice Cunico (now Senior UX Designer at Barclays) and Kanisha Mistry (now UX Design Lead at Zone) secured roles on the strength of that portfolio. The UX Academy certificate does not expire and is issued by Nomadic User Ltd, trading as UX Academy. We are transparent: we are not accredited by a government body, and most employers do not require that for entry-level UX roles. What they look for is proof you can do the work - and that is exactly what the course delivers.
Extend with the UX Career Track: 4 more weeks for a second live client brief, run as a design team, plus 1:1 job support. Open to Beginner graduates — register your interest. Full path — £2,500 over 12 weeks.
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