Kyiv · 12-week UX/UI program

Design a portfolio that survives critique.

Twelve weeks of practical design assignments, Wednesday Figma workshops and Friday written critique. You leave with revised work, not screenshots.

Portfolio evidence

Revision is the work.

Each assignment is submitted three times. The deltas below come from the Friday written critique, not from taste.

  1. Week 04Brief: booking flow

    Short-stay booking in four screens

    Constraints
    Four screens, one accent, no icon set
    Mentor annotation
    Two callouts on the date picker

    v1 to v3Navigation reduced from 7 items to 4; dates moved above the fold.

    Mentor note: cut the second button. The map is not the task.

  2. Week 07Brief: course catalogue

    Catalogue of 12 courses, 3 breakpoints

    Constraints
    No stock imagery, 44px tap targets
    Mentor annotation
    Filter logic reworked twice

    v1 to v2Filters collapsed into one row; card titles shortened to two lines.

    Mentor note: the price is the third thing a learner reads. Move it up.

  3. Week 10Brief: checkout

    Checkout with one visible error state

    Constraints
    Figma frames only, no real data
    Mentor annotation
    Label contrast fix requested

    v1 to v3Field count down from 11 to 6; error text now sits under the label.

    Mentor note: state the recovery step, not the problem.

Full assignment wall and prior cohorts sit on the program page.

Weekly rhythm

Every week runs on the same four beats

Monday brief, Wednesday Figma workshop, Friday written critique, Sunday revision. Twelve weeks, no improvising.

Twelve-week schedule, week by week
Week Brief Figma workshop Written critique Revision
01–02 Audit three Ukrainian banking apps and map their onboarding. Frames, auto layout, component sets. Friday, annotated inside the file. v2 by Sunday, delta logged.
03–04 Redesign one checkout step for a low-bandwidth connection. Variants and interactive components. Friday, fixed template: works, fails, next step. v2 by Sunday, nav cut from 7 to 4 items.
05–06 Design a booking flow for a Kyiv service business. Prototyping and smart animate. Friday, mentor notes on flow gaps. v3 by Sunday, error states added.
07–08 Rebuild a dashboard around one primary task. Design tokens and text styles. Friday, heuristic pass on hierarchy. v2 by Sunday, three screens merged into one.
09–10 Turn a finished project into a portfolio case study. Libraries and handoff notes. Friday, peer critique round. v3 by Sunday, case study rewritten.
11–12 Present the final case study to two working designers. Slides and presenter notes. Friday, recorded review. Final files, portfolio ready.

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Critique method

Every Friday, the same three questions.

No open-ended feedback. Each project is read against a fixed template, written down before the session, then revised on Sunday.

  1. 01

    What works

    Name the decision that holds up and say why. One paragraph, no hedging: the two-column form reads faster because the labels sit above the fields.

  2. 02

    What fails

    Point at the frame, not the person. Cite the screen, the element and what the user loses. If it takes a meeting to explain, the frame is not finished.

  3. 03

    One next step

    A single instruction for Sunday's revision. Not five. One, with a deliverable you can screenshot and compare against the previous version.

See the full weekly rhythm

Cohort pricing

One fee covers twelve weeks, weekly Figma workshops and a portfolio you can defend.

Two intakes a year, sixteen seats each. The fee is fixed at enrolment and the weekly rhythm never shifts after week one.

Spring cohort

UAH 48 000

Starts
6 April 2026
Apply by
27 March 2026
Seats
16 total, 4 left
Format
Kyiv studio and remote

Autumn cohort

UAH 48 000

Starts
28 September 2026
Apply by
18 September 2026
Seats
16 total, 11 left
Format
Remote, live sessions

Contact

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Studio
7A Yaroslaviv Val St, Office 4
Kyiv, 01054, Ukraine
Hours
Mon to Fri, 10:00 to 18:00 Kyiv time