Strategy is not a mindset. It is specific outputs that change how organisations invest in design.
“Before joining the Advanced course, my user research toolkit was limited. Drafting explicit hypotheses, structuring effective ideation exercises, and synthesising findings are my key takeaways. Access to teachers who are also practitioners gave me the confidence anyone investing in a product design career needs.”
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, frameworks covered, and entry requirements.
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Build the business case for design investment using cost-of-poor-UX evidence and ROI models.
Assess where your organisation sits on the maturity curve, define a vision and mission, and design a roadmap to raise it.
Define experience principles, set quality metrics, and track design impact against business outcomes.
Run stakeholder workshops, pitch at board level, and build internal design advocacy that sticks. Weekly mentorship runs throughout.
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 Manager - Product Design & Research (Head of function)
Stratis holds a leadership position in Product Design at Gousto, overseeing design across Menu, Acquisition, and Retention. He plays a pivotal role in shaping design strategy, ensuring quality, and maintaining commercial effectiveness. Prior experience includes Vogue and Aviva.
Graduate outcomes
Not a highlight reel. Real transitions, real timelines.
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
“Before joining the Advanced course, my user research toolkit was limited. Drafting explicit hypotheses, structuring effective ideation exercises, and synthesising findings are my key takeaways. Access to teachers who are also practitioners gave me the confidence anyone investing in a product design career needs.”
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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.
Both. Designed for mid-to-senior designers who are still hands-on but want to operate strategically. No management role required.
That depends on your role and ambition. Learn to operate strategically, not to stop designing. Most graduates continue design work but gain more influence over what gets built and why.
You should have at least 5 years of UX design experience and have worked inside an organisation with multiple stakeholders. This is not a beginner or intermediate course.
One live session per week (Wednesday evenings, 6:00 to 8:30pm UK time) plus 3 to 4 hours of independent work. Budget around 5 to 6 hours per week total across 4 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.
The frameworks are only part of it. The live sessions force you to apply them to your actual organisation and get critique from an instructor and peers doing the same work.
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.
Straight to your inbox: the complete syllabus, learning outcomes, and the next cohort dates. Free, no commitment.
See also: design mentorship.
