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Academy track12 weeks · Beginner to Intermediate

Product Design & Frontend Engineering

Design that survives implementation, and implementation that respects design

46,000or 3 monthly instalments
Duration
12 weeks
Level
Beginner to Intermediate
Effort
12 hrs/week
Format
Live online + critique sessions
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Next cohort intake is open · instalments available

Why this track

The valuable person in this space is not a designer who cannot build or a developer who cannot judge a layout. It is the person who does both well enough to close the loop. This track builds that combination, with accessibility and performance as standards rather than afterthoughts.

12weeks of live, project-based work
8modules, each ending in something deployed
4portfolio projects, reviewed like client work
5+roles this track prepares you for
Outcomes

What you will be able to do

  • Run lightweight research and turn it into design decisions you can defend
  • Design and document a real design system with tokens and components
  • Build accessible React interfaces that pass a keyboard and screen-reader audit
  • Handle the states everyone forgets: loading, empty, error, partial and offline
  • Meet performance budgets and enforce them in CI
  • Present and defend design work in a critique
Before you start

Entry expectations

If you are close but not quite there, tell us at application. We would rather get you ready than turn you away.

  • 01Basic HTML and CSS
  • 02An eye you are willing to have corrected
  • 03No design degree required
Tools you will use
FigmaHTMLCSSTypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwindStorybookAxeLighthousePlaywright
Syllabus

The route, module by module

8 modules over 12 weeks. Every one ends in something deployed to a real URL and reviewed line by line.

    • Layout, hierarchy, type scale, colour systems, spacing, and why most interfaces fail on hierarchy alone
Portfolio

What you will have built

  1. 01A design system with tokens, components and documentation
  2. 02An accessible multi-step form with full state coverage
  3. 03A dashboard rebuilt for hierarchy and performance
  4. 04Capstone: a researched, designed, built and audited product interface
Where it leads

Roles this prepares you for

Product DesignerFrontend EngineerDesign EngineerUI EngineerDesign Systems Engineer
Questions

Before you apply

The programme runs 12 weeks and expects 12 hrs/week including project work. Live sessions are scheduled outside standard office hours and recorded, so working professionals can keep a full-time job while studying.

Ready to build things that ship?

Apply for the next cohort. The first conversation is an honest assessment of where you are and what it will take.