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90%
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UI/UX designer: Salary
$1,600
+22%YoY salary growth. Source: DOU
Every time you use a website or app, you’re experiencing their work. UI/UX designers create user interfaces and user experiences that are intuitive and engaging, adapting designs for various devices. Additionally, they conduct user research and testing to refine their designs. Impressive, right?
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Weekdays, 9 am - 6 pm
In your free time
UI/UX designer
90%
of Mate grads entered the tech field for the first time
What's covered
Get Started
4 topic
Learn how studying at Mate academy is organized: how the platform works, how interaction with mentors is structured, what the program includes, and get tips on how to study effectively and manage your time.
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Design Basics
5 topic
Develop intuitive and stylish designs for users
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GenAI Essentials
6 topic
Learn how to use GenAI responsibly and effectively.
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Course Fundamentals
2 topic
We want you to join the course prepared and move fast with the group when it starts. Reading theory and doing the tasks below will increase your productivity during the course and in a long run help you be employed in a better company with a higher salary.
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UX Design — Research
12 topic
As plain as it might sound, great designers start with great research to dive neck-deep into their target audience needs. So, let's carry out some research — shall we?
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Design Basics Extended
4 topic
We'll take a closer look at the fundamental principles and laws of visual design and learn how to use them in our work, which will help you create high-quality UI in the future. We will also deepen and consolidate the knowledge of UI elements used in everyday work.
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Communication and Stress Management
7 topic
This module is designed to enhance your communication skills and overall soft skills. You’ll learn how to communicate effectively, feel confident during job interviews and public speaking, master techniques to manage stress, and much more. The best part? The module includes 28 practical tasks that will significantly boost your skills and help you see noticeable progress.
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UI Design — Mobile App Design
7 topic
We'll finally dwell over pixels and work our way to an aesthetically pleasing look, providing an even better user experience. At the finish line, you'll have a ready-for-development mobile design.
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Web Interfaces
11 topic
Mobile apps — been there, done that, so now it's time to come up with user-friendly web interfaces. We'll use this opportunity to enrich your portfolio, too!
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Portfolio Cases on Behance
5 topic
First: It's high time for you to get acquainted with the motion magic and prepare first animations. Then: we'll get your portfolio over to Behance, getting you ready for the labor market.
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Creative Web
6 topic
We'll dive deep into UI and create a custom website concept that will be turned into another project for your portfolio. You will have a lot of practice and experiments with composition, typography, colors, and other visual content.
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Team Project
7 topic
In 4 weeks, you will create a product from scratch in teams with colleagues from other areas, following Scrum methodology, and present the results to your mates. In the end, you will have another project to add to your resume and gain invaluable real-world experience.
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Employment
8 topic
Ready to enter the tech market? Well... we'll get you ready — with a great resume, cover letter, a LinkedIn profile and mock interviews. Recruiters are in for a true discovery!
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HTML + CSS Basics
16 topic
Next up: introduction to HTML and CSS. Find your way around fonts, semantics, responsiveness, selectors and specificity, media queries, links, and forms.
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Career Development
5 topic
Module that will help you confidently pass your probation period, develop a professional development plan, prepare for performance reviews, and learn how to record your achievements. It provides practical tools for conscious career growth and preparation for new opportunities.
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Faq
In the full-time schedule, you study online from 9 AM to 6 PM, Monday to Friday. You’ll attend webinars, do practical tasks, and get help from mentors. There are group video calls four times a week in the afternoon. This intense schedule is not good if you want to work at the same time.
The flexible schedule lets you learn at your own pace. You decide when and how many hours to study. Mentors are available to help you, and you can chat and join video calls with classmates. Plus, you get lifetime access to the course, so you can learn whenever you want.
In the flexible format, you can balance your studies with work or school. You set your own pace and receive support from our mentors throughout the course.
In the full-time format, it’s hard to combine studies with work or school due to its intensity. You’ll need to fully commit, studying from 9 am to 6 pm, Monday to Friday.
Sure! After finishing our course, you'll get a certificate. More than 4,500 of our graduates use it to show their skills on LinkedIn and other social media. But our main focus is helping you find a job, and we'll do everything we can to support you in that.
No, you don’t need math or a technical background to enroll. In fact, 9 out of 10 Mate students come from non-technical backgrounds. Our job is to teach you the skills you need and help you land a job in tech.
To enroll in the full-time course, start by filling out an application and taking a short logic test with 15 questions. If your English level is below Pre-intermediate, we'll ask you to make a short video about yourself. Once we check that your English is good enough for learning, you can move on with your enrollment and set up an interview with our manager.
For the flexible course, just send an application. Our manager will reach out to explain the course details and help you pick the best option. You’ll get access to the course right after you pay.
You can apply for the full-time course starting at age 16 with your parents' permission. For the flexible course, you can begin if you’re at least 15 years old.
The employment guarantee applies if you reach the legal working age in your country by the time you finish the course.
For over 10 years, we’ve been helping people kickstart their tech careers — and we’ve gotten pretty good at it.
Our courses are built around what companies actually want, with tons of hands-on practice to get you job-ready. And you’re never on your own — we’ll guide you every step of the way, from polishing your resume to nailing your interviews.
The best part? 80% of our grads land a tech job just a few months after finishing the course.
For full-time graduates, you only start paying for your education after finding a tech job. The payment is 12% of your net salary for 36 months. If you don’t get a job, you pay nothing.
If you finish the flexible course, actively search for a job with our support for 16 weeks, and don't receive any offers, you can get a full refund.
The full-time schedule combines theory lessons, practice, and Q&A sessions:
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM — Algorithms 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM — Theory 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM — Break 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM — Practice 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM — Q&A session 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM — Practice 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM — Q&A session
Graduates of the UI/UX designer course often land their first jobs in positions such as UI/UX designer, product designer, and web designer.
You will be able to work with the following tools: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch. You will learn to create prototypes, conduct usability testing, develop visual systems. In your hands you will have a real portfolio with real projects, a certificate of completion of the UI/UX design course. We will also help with employment.
Mastering UI/UX design is best in courses with a mentor who will help you get into the topic and prevent you from repeating mistakes. Our UX/UI designer course has a clear structure: you easily move between modules, you can return to what you have learned and gradually progress from simple to more complex. Thus, learning becomes clear, consistent and effective.
To learn a new profession, take a web design course from Mate. You'll learn the basics: composition, color, typography, consumer logic, and more. Then learn how to use basic mockup and prototyping tools. Our web design courses focus on practice: you will work on real cases and build your portfolio. Our "UI/UX Design" course lasts from 4 (with a fixed schedule from 9:00 to 18:00 on weekdays) to 8 months (with a flexible schedule) - this is enough to master the basic skills, deepen them and pump up aesthetic perception. And eventually, you'll learn how to create visuals that work.
To take web design courses, you need a PC or laptop and a stable internet connection. Recommended minimum technical specifications: Windows 11 or macOS 10.13 OS, 4th generation Intel Core i5 processor, RAM — 8 GB.
High salary: Junior earns from $600-1000, Middle earns around $1500, and Senior earns from $3000. However, the final level of payment will depend on your skills, in particular, on the level of English (you can also improve it during the course). The demand for specialists in the field of design is steadily growing, because business understands that without high-quality visuals, it will not be possible to effectively attract users. 200+ vacancies open every month. Convenient work format: you can work at home or in the office, full day or a few hours. This is an area where you can adapt the schedule to suit yourself. In UI/UX design, aesthetics and analytics are combined — creativity meets logic. Specialists after the UI/UX design course work on sites, applications, landing pages, visuals for media and social networks — there is room for ideas and experiments everywhere.
After completing a course in UX/UI design, several career paths open up for you: UI Designer, UX Designer, Web Designer, Product Designer, etc. At the start, you will be able to apply for the position of Junior Designer. With experience, active participation in projects and good results, you will be able to gradually grow to Middle and Senior levels. Career growth and salary level depend on your experience, initiative and success of implemented projects. Everything is in your hands! After studying web design, you can get a job in a product company and be part of a team, you can work in an agency and work on various projects, or you can go freelance and develop your personal brand.
To take a UI/UX design course, you need a computer, time, developed visual perception and imagination. For beginners without design experience Our free web design courses will help you create your first projects from scratch. Graphic designers to expand their skills New knowledge, skills and tools will help to dive deeper into the specifics of the digital environment and the IT sphere. For marketers seeking to better understand the user experience Studying UI/UX design will help you better analyze visual solutions and interact more effectively with designers. Creative people who master a new profession An understandable format, a lot of practice and feedback from mentors will help you confidently start in IT.
We offer two formats of UI/UX design training: free courses that involve training from 9:00 to 18:00 and payment after employment, and courses with a flexible schedule - you pay for training in advance, but study at a time convenient for you. Our online web design courses include: Mastering the theory in video lectures and webinars is only 20% of the training. Development of skills in practical classes and development of real projects — 80%. Individual feedback from mentors and analysis of errors. Communicating with classmates in chat rooms or via video call. Preparation of a resume, portfolio and job placement. Our UI/UX design courses with employment will help you take the first confident steps towards a successful career.