a job guaranteed ux design program it's not like Google certificate where you have to do everything
by yourself the quality of the students work in CareerFoundry it's significantly higher hello
long time no see I'm Aliena I'm a self-taught ux designer and I'm working at eBay right now
and CareerFoundry actually reached out to me to do a course review video for them so thank you
CareerFoundry for sponsoring today's video and let's dive right into it this is an online ux
design program that will take you from beginner level all the way to Landing your job in the ux
industry this is what you will see if you are enrolled into the course you'll first see this
intro to ux design course and once you finish that you will see a ux immersion course ux immersion
it's much longer than intro to ux design be mentally prepared for that after that you
can choose between three specialization scores UI course front-end course versus a voice user
interface course I will suggest you to do the UI for ux designers course because most ux jobs today
are UI ux designer or product designer title roles and you still have to have really good UI skill to
be a ux designer and the course reading looks like this it feels like you are going back to
college and doing more readings but the readings are written in a way that's very readable it's
not like you are reading academic paper it will provide you a lot of knowledge and context in
the field of ux they're going to be reading there's going to be a lot of images and there
will be some videos in some readings by the end of each reading you will see a resources section
for more resources you will see a quiz section for you to take a quiz and then you will see a
task session for you to do the task and here just a kind reminder right after the rubric
you can actually see other people's work this is a student's work to be honest I am very impressed by
many people's work the quality of the students work in CareerFoundry is significantly higher
than those who are taking the Google certificate and I think that there's a very strong reason for
that which is there's a person grading your work so if you haven't done the best work you will be
sent a revision request to revise your work until it is approved but it's not like going back to
school where you are striving for that 100 grade they don't give you a grade they just give you a
category so it's not like you have to be perfect in all assignments but you also cannot delivering
bad work now regarding the portfolio project you will have after you take the course you'll have
three projects in total that you can showcase one from the intro course one from the ux immersion
course and then went from the UI for ux designer course regarding the content for the intro course
you will learn about design thinking user research personas information architecture wireframing
prototyping usability testing and presenting your work these are all very important for ux
designers these are things that I do need to work with from a day-to-day basis just a kind reminder
that different institutions use different graphs or different processes for what is called design
thinking but that is okay there's no two projects that use the exact same process and for the intro
course you will design a vocabulary learning app now for ux immersion course there will be six
achievement you can just think of it like there's six smaller courses in this ux immersion course
think like a uxer you will learn about things like user Center design competitive analysis lean ux
versus agile ux you also learn about understanding the user foundational design usability testing
refining the design and end-to-end design for the immersion course you choose between four personal
projects you shall choose the Project based on the industry you want to be in and finally for UI for
ux designers you will learn a lot about visual design also things like responsive layout and
grids do's and don'ts in ux Figma visual hierarchy spacing shape and icons all those good stuff and
you'll also choose between four projects and besides doing the reading doing the tasks you
can also book Mentor calls and here is where you can book your Mentor calls and I really suggest
you to book ux Mentor calls because this is free for you no actually I shall say you paid for it I
had one call already and I'm going to put a clip here we can talk about anything anything like
usually I talk with my students about industry in general about if they want to know I'm in past
freelancer remote if I see I can add something to the submissions they've made there are different
ways to do things and I always want to show them another way or we talk about motivation in my
opinion good thing about talking to Mentor it's like to practice professional language
um at the end of the course I'm like practicing with them interviews we are simulating whiteboard
challenge whatever can can come from you know in in real world so what do I like about this
program first of all I am very surprised and I also really like that it is job guaranteed um
because their job guarantee program is like if you don't get a job in six months after you take the
course you get your money back I like that this program offers tutoring and Mentor these tutors
and mentors are very helpful I like that they help you with getting your resume and portfolio
together after you finish the program I also like that they have really in-depth and advanced
readings there are many things that I don't even know as someone who's already a ux designer and
it's not like I don't have to know this it's more like oh wow I really I wish I know this a year ago
so that I could have used this in this part of my work and I also love that they have great student
examples for all of their activities and tasks now moving to what I disliked about the program
if you are someone taking the course you might feel like the UI part is introduced a bit late
in the program so if you want to take the program hear me out before you take ux immersion make sure
to check out the view course prep and then all the way down there is one entire section that
introduce you to figma watch all these videos one by one multiple times and follow along and this
is the foundation you will have to have as a ux designer like you have to know UI also please pay
special attention to achievement 3 and achievement 5 content in the immersion course another thing
that I kind of dislike is that there are a lot of assignments but as someone who went through
another similar program I have to let you know that doing assignments take a lot of effort but
it won't hurt save them in a folder and in your future work you will have scenarios where you'll
feel like oh wow I recall I did something similar in a program before let me search that and that
can give you a really good example of what to do during what situation and I think having these
many assignments is what this program have to do to be job guaranteed because they can't just
guarantee anyone who clicked through everything to have a job right another thing I kind of dislike
is that most of the content is reading materials which I should be fine if I was still a university
student but as someone who have been watching YouTube a lot yeah it took me a while to realize
that oh I need to read no it's not just video the reading though it's written very well it's
not it's not a heart read and the project this course offer are personal projects they're very
well designed that fit into different Industries but still their personal projects so this is what
I suggest if you are new to ux you shall start from personal projects you first need to develop
the skill to do client project but if you are in a very competitive country like United States it
could be very helpful for you to get a real world project on your own maybe do something for free
for a client you can do that as the independent project or you can do that right after you finish
the course or along with the course and finally regarding the portfolio after you finish the
course you might feel like your skill has improved significantly from the first project that you've
done and then you don't feel like the first project is strong enough to be in your portfolio
and I will just directly give you the suggestion to go back to the first project polish up the UI
and then bring that back to the portfolio now will this course be a best fit for you I will suggest
you to take this course if you are very serious about being a ux designer in a year if you have
already done some client projects or personal projects from before it might not be the best
fit for you because you will have to spend a lot of effort and time to complete the program also
I think this is a really good course to take if you are a full-time student or you already have
a full-time job you just want to transfer into ux design because you can do it online by yourself
and you still have the tutors and the mentors behind the program to support you to ask you
to revise your project it's not like Google certificate where you have to do everything
by yourself there's no one pushing you there's more push in this program the price is this
right now and you can get a discount by using the link in the description and I
will update the link whenever a new discount came up thank you CareerFoundry for inviting
me to review your course it is indeed a very nice course and I think if you like
this video you shall subscribe to my channel and also watch this video of mine cheers bye