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a UI/UX Professional
Learn the skills you need to enter the design workforce with confidence and conviction. Regardless of your professional background, you can learn to develop user-friendly digital spaces and products for various companies or industries. With the need for UI/UX professionals growing steadily, employers are on the lookout for qualified designers that can create aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly digital assets that engage the audience and help them find the solutions they need.
Jump-Start a
Design Career
With an emphasis on hands-on training and project-based learning experiences, our curriculum aims
to provide learners with experiential knowledge of UI and UX design. Under the guidance of expert instructors,
you’ll become well-versed in the following in-demand industry tools.
Our Program Model
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas prepares you to become a highly adaptable design professional through
in-depth training and practice of the core skills and foundations of UI, UX, and visual design.
Introductory Course
Learners will begin their journey into UI/UX with our 30-hour Introductory Course. This allows you to get a taste for the program, field, and curriculum style before signing up for the Extended Program. You’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of user experience, user interface, and visual design and popular UI/UX positions you might be interested in upon entering the field.
400 In-Class Hours
Stretched over the course of 8 to 10 months, the full program is 370-hours, beginning after you successfully complete the 30-hour Introductory Course. You’ll explore in-depth training surrounding major components of the UI/UX industry and become familiar with industry tools experts are using in the field.
Career Services
Take advantage of personalized assistance in the form of one-on-one support to help you transition successfully from learner to design professional. The UNLV UI/UX Design Bootcamp career services team is readily available to help you clean up your resume, build a noteworthy LinkedIn profile, practice sitting for interviews, and more.
Train for a New Career in UI/UX Design
The UNLV UI/UX Design Bootcamp provides you with in-depth UI, UX, and visual design training provided by
industry experts in a collaborative environment.
Start With Basics
Before diving into advanced UI/UX subjects, learners will go through extensive fundamentals training to ensure they understand the essentials of user interface design, user experience design, web programming, and product design.
Understand Ethical Design
UI/UX professionals should be able to create ethical, inclusive, and accessible digital products and spaces for all users. Developing these skills will help give you the potential to reshape how users experience design in the digital world.
Build Your Strengths
Our curriculum has a multidisciplinary structure, allowing you to explore many different areas of UI/UX to get a better idea of what your strengths are and what you’d like to pursue as a career.
Showcase Your Professional Skills
Throughout the program, you’ll have collaborative and hands-on projects that you can include in your professional portfolio to show potential employers during interviews and job searches. This will help you display your technical abilities in addition to theoretical knowledge of UI/UX practices.
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Design Field
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Course Overview
30-Hour Introductory Course ||
370-Hour Extended Program
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Introductory Course
This course is the first in our curriculum and introduces you to the fundamentals of UI, UX, product, and visual design as well as the responsibilities you can expect in these types of roles. -
How to Think Like a Designer
Shape your perspective to think from a design perspective. Learners will explore important tools in the digital landscape, including virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), the Internet of Things (IoT), and how to implement digital design in physical spaces. -
Visual Design Essentials
Explore design principles, including theories and history of design to better understand the fundamentals of visual design. In this course, you will learn Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. -
UX Design Essentials
Explore the fundamentals of UX assets before learning how to successfully develop and create functional designs. Learners will use the information architecture structure to organize data when developing a digital asset. -
Conducting Research
Learn how to successfully conduct market research and design methods you will use to develop products that meet user, market, and business needs. You will explore remote tools such as Miro, Otter.ai, and Zoom. -
Ideating & Prototyping
This course teaches how to design sketches and paper prototypes that will then be converted into low- to mid-fidelity wireframes. This will help you learn how to quickly identify potential design opportunities and solutions. -
Usability Testing
In this course, you will learn what usability tests are, what types are available when building web designs and programmings, how to set up testing, and how to successfully interpret the results. -
High-Fidelity Design
Take what you learned about prototyping in order to develop a high-fidelity wireframe or prototype. Learners will explore the importance of visual elements like color, typography, images, and iconography when designing a visually appealing and engaging product. -
Microinteraction
Explore the essentials of animation in design and how to utilize microinteractions in your work. You will explore when, where, and how best to use microinteractions and other digital transitions. -
Team Project
This section of the curriculum allows learners to work in conjunction with each other to create a team project that can be included in their professional portfolio. This will help give you hands-on experience working with other designers on a team, which is a common aspect of most UI/UX careers. -
Introduction to Front-End Development
This course provides an understanding of web development, including how a website is built using HTML and CSS. -
Introduction to Digital Marketing
You’ll explore various principles of digital marketing and how they tie into UI/UX and other digital spaces. This course explores fundamental concepts like SEO, copywriting, and designing for social media. -
Design Portfolios
This section allows learners to work on developing their professional design portfolio in a way that will help showcase their newly developed skills to potential employers or clients. -
Preparing for a Design Career
This section provides resources for you to prepare for your future career in UI/UX design.
Introductory Course
30 Hours
This course is the first in our curriculum and introduces you to the fundamentals of UI, UX, product, and visual design as well as the responsibilities you can expect in these types of roles.
How to Think Like a Designer
12 Hours
Shape your perspective to think from a design perspective. Learners will explore important tools in the digital landscape, including virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), the Internet of Things (IoT), and how to implement digital design in physical spaces.
Visual Design Essentials
54 Hours
Explore design principles, including theories and history of design to better understand the fundamentals of visual design. In this course, you will learn Adobe Illustrator and InDesign.
UX Design Essentials
40 Hours
Explore the fundamentals of UX assets before learning how to successfully develop and create functional designs. Learners will use the information architecture structure to organize data when developing a digital asset.
Conducting Research
26 Hours
Learn how to successfully conduct market research and design methods you will use to develop products that meet user, market, and business needs. You will explore remote tools such as Miro, Otter.ai, and Zoom.
Ideating & Prototyping
26 Hours
This course teaches how to design sketches and paper prototypes that will then be converted into low- to mid-fidelity wireframes. This will help you learn how to quickly identify potential design opportunities and solutions.
Usability Testing
20 Hours
In this course, you will learn what usability tests are, what types are available when building web designs and programmings, how to set up testing, and how to successfully interpret the results.
High-Fidelity Design
26 Hours
Take what you learned about prototyping in order to develop a high-fidelity wireframe or prototype. Learners will explore the importance of visual elements like color, typography, images, and iconography when designing a visually appealing and engaging product.
Microinteraction
8 Hours
Explore the essentials of animation in design and how to utilize microinteractions in your work. You will explore when, where, and how best to use microinteractions and other digital transitions.
Team Project
36 Hours
This section of the curriculum allows learners to work in conjunction with each other to create a team project that can be included in their professional portfolio. This will help give you hands-on experience working with other designers on a team, which is a common aspect of most UI/UX careers.
Introduction to Front-End Development
20 Hours
This course provides an understanding of web development, including how a website is built using HTML and CSS.
Introduction to Digital Marketing
12 Hours
You’ll explore various principles of digital marketing and how they tie into UI/UX and other digital spaces. This course explores fundamental concepts like SEO, copywriting, and designing for social media.
Design Portfolios
30 Hours
This section allows learners to work on developing their professional design portfolio in a way that will help showcase their newly developed skills to potential employers or clients.
Preparing for a Design Career
12 Hours
This section provides resources for you to prepare for your future career in UI/UX design.
Set Your Sights.
Achieve Your Goals.
Explore the UNLV Three-Point Training Model
Technical
With technical training, learners will be able to demonstrate an understanding of various design software and tools and how to logically apply these when working on developing assets.
Theoretical
Knowing how to think and communicate like a UI/UX designer is crucial for brainstorming and developing new design ideas.
Practical
Our curriculum will provide you with the training you need to demonstrate your hands-on knowledge of UI, UX, and visual design.
Program Tuition
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas UI/UX Design Bootcamp provides all participants with access to our in-depth curriculum, as well as a plethora of educational resources and training material. In addition to recorded classroom sessions, instructor Q&A, and access to the Design Hub, you’ll have one-on-one consultations to help shape your future in UI/UX. Our expert instructors, career advisors, student success managers, and support teams will be available to help you prepare for a career in UI/UX design.
30-Hour Introductory Course
$500
370-Hour Extended Program
$14,500
Requirements
Mac or Windows laptop with
minimum requirements
Internet connection
Adobe Creative Cloud (all apps)
Figma (Sketch is optional, but recommended!)
Passion for learning
To learn more about the UNLV Digital Skills Bootcamps, give our admissions advisors a call at 702 832-4555 or fill out the form below.
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