USER
EXPERIENCE
DESIGN
BOOTCAMP
OVERVIEW
General Assembly’s User Experience Design Bootcamp
(UXDB) is a transformative course that prepares students to
break into UX careers.
Designed to get you hired, this UX bootcamp features
best-in-class instruction, career coaching, and professional
connections to top employers. Join us on campus in BIBF
weekdays from 9am to 5pm.
You’ll graduate able to approach problems with creative and
technical acumen in order to land a UX job and design the
next generation of successful apps, websites, and digital
products.
Throughout this expert-designed program, you’ll:
Identify and implement the most effective methods of user research to gain a
deeper understanding of what users want and need.
Use interaction and visual design techniques to craft a dynamic digital product
that brings delight and function to users.
Conduct usability testing to make product experiences more accessible for
diverse user populations and environments.
Learn best practices for working within a product team, employing product
management techniques and evaluating technical constraints to better
collaborate with developers.
Produce polished design documentation, including wireframes and prototypes,
to articulate design decisions to clients and stakeholders.
Touch on the basics of hot topics like service design, design operations, and
design leadership.
Prepare for the world of work, compiling a professional-grade portfolio of solo,
group, and client projects.
User Experience Design Bootcamp: Overview
WHAT TO EXPECT
Set yourself up for success in this bootcamp with up to 20 hours of preparatory lessons
covering essential UX concepts in user research, prototyping, and visual design. Tailored to
introduce you to foundational design skills and context, UX Fundamentals is a self-paced
online learning path meant to help you hit the ground running on day one of class.
The In-Class Experience
Engage in full-time, project-based learning that’s tailored to prepare you for a career in
UX design. As a UXDB student, you’ll:
Explore new concepts and tools through expert-led lectures and discussions.
Complete hands-on design exercises to reinforce newly learned skills. Develop
fluency in industry-essential topics and techniques via independent, pair, and group
labs.
Engage in real client work to execute the UX design process from start to finish.
Receive individualized feedback and support from your expert instructional team.
Build out a portfolio of sketches, user research, and prototypes to demonstrate
hireability and job-ready skills to potential employers.
Dedicated Career Coaching
As a bootcamp student, you’ll receive dedicated support from career coaches who will help
you set goals, make a roadmap for success, and stay on track with your job search.
Throughout the course, you’ll:
Get an inside look at the industry through day-in-the-life talks, hiring panel discussions,
guest speakers, and more.
Cultivate a competitive mindset, learning to assess your skill set against job descriptions,
track progress, and recognize opportunities. Develop your professional brand: Polish your
online and in-person presence, and practice design challenges and whiteboarding skills
to set yourself apart in interviews.
Tap into an exclusive global network of experts, influencers, and peers, plus learn
strategies for leveraging your existing connections, in person and online.
Become an active contributor to the UX community.
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After graduation, you’ll also gain access to resources to help fuel a lifetime of learning.
PREREQUISITES
This is a beginner-friendly program with no prerequisites,
although many students are familiar with common tools
for graphic and web designers and some may have had
exposure to UX concepts in the past. Whether you’re
new to the field or you’re looking to formalize your
practice, our curriculum helps you gain fluency in end-to-
end UX processes, tools, and documentation and put
them to work on the path to a new career in the field.
Our Admissions team can discuss your background and
learning goals to advise if this UX design bootcamp is a
good fit for you.
User Experience Design Bootcamp: Prerequisites
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Pre-Work UX Fundamentals Prepare to hit the ground running on day one of class
with self-paced online lessons.
Topics covered include:
Getting started in UX
The UX design process Conducting user research
Competitive analysis
Affinity mapping
Creating personas
Defining your users’ problem Information
architecture Designing intuitive navigation
Unit 1 UX Foundations Build foundational knowledge of UX methodology.
Explore the full range of concepts in the design
process, from research and testing, to design
thinking and rapid prototyping.
Topics covered include:
Identifying problems and needs Planning,
executing, and synthesizing user interviews
Refining and confirming assumptions Hand
sketching
Rapid prototyping
Essentials of usability testing
An introduction to presentations
Project Example: Create the foundation of an app
through a lean UX process of rapid prototyping and
ideation. This project immediately introduces the
range of skills required in the UX field and helps you
build a low-fidelity prototype.
Leveraging Generative AI
Summarize the basics of Generative AI tools
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and how they operate.
Identify advantages and disadvantages of
Generative AI tools.
Use Generative AI tools ethically, legally, and
responsibly.
Effectively leverage Generative AI tools to
enhance your work as a tech professional
Unit 2 UI Foundations Explore how to bring delight and function to users
through combining the worlds of user experience and
user interface (UI) design. Create screens, pages, and
visual elements that enable users to interact with
products in an intuitive way.
Topics covered include:
Unit 2 UI Foundations Contextual and comparative inquiry Competitive
(Cont.) analysis
Information architecture
Navigation and sitemaps
Web layouts and wireframes Interaction design
principles
Visual design: typography, color theory, and
composition
Responsive design
Accessibility
Building UI components
Project Example: Design a clickable prototype for an
online shopping experience that meets the goals of
the users, the business, and the brand.
Unit 3 Design Expand and apply the entire design process of user
research, ideation, prototyping, interaction design,
Iteration and
interface design, and usability testing.
Development
Topics covered include:
Project management and planning
Design studio brainstorming
Advanced testing and research
Feature prioritization and integration
Group facilitation
Design iterations
UX writing
Content strategy
Designing for the future: VR, AR, and wearables
Team presentations
Creating a research report and specifications
document
Project Example: Work in teams to design a new feature
for an existing product or brand in order to meet a
User Experience Design Bootcamp: What You’ll Learn
business goal. Complete the entire design process,
including user research, feature prioritization, sketching,
wireframing, prototyping, and testing.
Unit 4 Working With a Learn how to work in an Agile development environment,
simulating the hand-off points between product
Product Team
managers and developers. Build interpersonal skills in
creative confidence and conversational storytelling to
develop your portfolio and get industry-ready.
Topics covered include:
Product pitching
Product management
Sprint planning
Agile development methodology Technology
constraints
HTML and CSS
Objectives and key results (OKRs) and key
performance indicators (KPIs)
Unit 4 Working With a
Advanced prototypes
Product Team Storytelling and stakeholder presentations
(Cont.) Working with developers
Project Example: Create a website, utilizing visual
design (e.g., color, type, composition, and layout) and
storytelling techniques to showcase your work and
portfolio.
Unit 5 UX in the Real World Translate the culmination of your design skills
into a professional client engagement. Work with
real-world clients to deliver UX research and designs
for an app, website, or product in a three-week
design sprint.
Topics covered include:
Client management
Project management
Product management
Balancing business and user goals Managing
clients and stakeholders
Project Example: Collaborate directly with external
clients to create a brand-new feature or improve an
existing one. Experience working with a diverse range
of stakeholders to solve real business problems.
Unit 6 UX Career Get industry-ready and take your designs to
the next level, exploring the basics of service design,
Planning
design operations, and design leadership. Advise
stakeholders on how to change operating procedures
and workflows to deliver on new product experiences.
Identify the traits that make you unique as a designer
and continue preparing to start your UX career.
User Experience Design Bootcamp: What You’ll Learn
Topics covered include:
Service design
Design operations
Design leadership
Leading through influence
Career planning
Building your personal brand
Mock interviews
Whiteboard challenges
Project Example: Source a design problem to solve to
showcase what makes you unique as a designer.
Focus on honing one skill area within the UX discipline,
for example user research, visual design, or interaction
design. (We encourage you to start the project in the
classroom and finalize it post-course to showcase
your continuing growth.)
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Why is this software engineering bootcamp relevant today?
Now more than ever, organizations are recognizing the value of user-centered design,
applying its principles everywhere from web experiences, to physical products, to service
delivery. According to InVision, 92% of the mature design organizations can draw a
straight line from the efforts of their design team to their company’s revenue.
We see this reflected on job boards: 70% of design teams increased their headcount in
the past year, and employers ranked UX/UI as the most in-demand product design title.
What’s more, hiring managers place a high value on candidates who complement design
and research knowledge with past experience in product management, marketing,
engineering, and business strategy. Regardless of your professional background, there’s
ample opportunity to carve a fulfilling — and lucrative — career path.
Will I earn a certificate?
Yes! Upon passing this course, you will receive a signed certificate of completion. Thousands
of GA alumni use their course certificate to demonstrate skills to potential employers —
including our 19K+ hiring partners — along with their LinkedIn networks. GA’s UX design
programs are well-regarded by many top employers, who contribute to our curriculum and
partner with us to train their own teams.
What are the professional backgrounds of user experience
design students?
UXDB students come from all walks of life but share one common mission: They are
passionate about launching a career in design by learning to craft seamless human-
computer interactions. We see career-changers from diverse professional backgrounds like
graphic design, UI design, architecture, and marketing, as well as more far-flung fields like
psychology and anthropology.
Who is eligible for tuition sponsorship by Tamkeen and GA? And, what
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does tuition sponsorship cover?
You must be a Bahraini citizen to receive tuition sponsorship.
Here are just some of the benefits you can expect as a GA student:
Expert instruction in the skills you need to successfully transition into a UX career. Self-
paced pre-work to explore UX fundamentals and prepare to hit the ground running on
day one of class.
Robust coursework, including expert-vetted lesson decks, project toolkits, and more.
Refresh and refine your knowledge throughout your professional journey as needed. A
professional-grade portfolio to showcase your ability to solve real-world design
challenges to potential employers and collaborators, including a mix of solo, team, and
client work.
Individual feedback and guidance from instructors and TAs during office hours. Stay
motivated and make the most of your experience with the help of GA’s dedicated team.
Dedicated career services to help you navigate your personal job search experience,
from design challenges, to salary negotiation, and more.
Design interview prep, including resume reviews, mock interviews, and whiteboarding
practice.
A GA course certificate to showcase your new skill set on LinkedIn.
What projects will I work on during this course?
For your capstone project, you’ll translate the culmination of your design skills into a
professional client engagement. Team up with classmates to deliver UX research and
designs for an app, website, or product in a three-week design sprint.
Throughout this Bootcamp, you’ll also compile a portfolio of solo and group projects
designed to reinforce what you’ve learned in each unit. Gain hands-on experience with
each step in the UX process and create professional-standard documentation spanning
research synthesis, information architecture, user flows, wireframes, and more.
Where are the GA & Tamkeen courses delivered?
The GA and Tamkeen courses are delivered in person at the Bahrain Institute of Banking and
Finance (BIBF).
User Experience Design Bootcamp: Frequently Asked Questions
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Admissions team is here to help and can advise on if this program
is right for you and your learning goals. You can also:
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