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Lay out product screens with type and color, taught through forty critiques of real work.
Rated 4.83,870 reviews27,600 learners
Taught by Mara Lindqvist, verified instructorDesign director · systems · Fieldhouse Design- Length
- 9 weeks at 6 hours a weekAt your own pace, or in a live cohort
- Credential
- Earn a Professional CertificateIssued by Fieldhouse Design
- Language
- Taught in EnglishWith subtitles in 26 languages
- Tutor
- An AI tutor in every lessonIt answers from the lesson on screen
$109once, yours to keep
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About this course
Start here if you are new to design, or coming to screens from print or from engineering. Each week you redesign one screen and the instructor's team marks it up line by line, within three days of your upload.
Skills you practice
Syllabus
6 modules
Ends on the project
19 lessons
10 to 18 min each
4 h 47 min of video
Pause to ask the tutor
2 free lessons
Watch before you pay
5 quizzes
36 questions in all
1 project
Reviewed by Mara's team
- 1.2Hierarchy at a glance15 min
- 1.3The squint test17 min
- Quiz · 7 questions7 min
- 2.2A spacing scale and its rhythm17 min
- 2.3Alignment you can defend12 min
- 2.4Responsive layouts from one grid15 min
- Quiz · 6 questions8 min
- 3.1Choosing a typeface for a product17 min
- 3.2A type scale in five steps15 min
- 3.3Line length and leading17 min
- Quiz · 8 questions10 min
- 4.1A neutral palette first15 min
- 4.2One accent, and what it means18 min
- 4.3Contrast for text and controls17 min
- Quiz · 7 questions7 min
- 5.1Buttons, fields and their states13 min
- 5.2Forms that ask for less17 min
- 5.3Empty, loading and error states12 min
- Quiz · 8 questions7 min
- 6.1Writing a design rationale18 min
- 6.2Presenting to a critique13 min
- 6.3A case study for your portfolio10 min
- Project · Redesign a three-screen booking flow and present it for critique6 hours
What the price covers
In the price
- 19 video lessons, 4 h 47 min in all
- The AI tutor beside every lesson
- 5 quizzes, graded as you answer
- A project reviewed by Mara's team
- A Professional Certificate when you finish
- Transcripts in 26 languages
Not in it
- Answers the tutor writes for you
- Live reviews outside a cohort
- One-to-one mentoring
- A job guarantee
Your instructor
Mara Lindqvist, verified instructor
Design director · systems
- Rating
- 4.7
- Learners
- 86.4K
- Courses
- 5
15 years in product design
I run the design system eleven product teams use.
Career highlight
Our system halved the time from sketch to screen.
How Mara teaches
You get notes on your own work every week.
Reviews, rated4.83,870 reviews
Overall rating
- 5 stars, 86% of reviews
- 4 stars, 9% of reviews
- 3 stars, 2% of reviews
- 2 stars, 1% of reviews
- 1 star, 1% of reviews
Lena M.Product designer
3 weeks agoFinished
The weekly critique is the course. Mara's notes on my layouts were blunt and specific, and I could not argue with a single one of them.
Esther K.Service designer
4 months agoFinished
Every assignment came back with notes within three days of handing it in, and the notes were about my screen, with arrows on it. I have paid more for courses whose instructors never looked at my work once. I run service design for a city council now, and I still reread those notes before I lead a critique of my own team's screens on a Monday morning.
Omar S.Junior designer
4 weeks agoFinished
The tutor never says which layout is better. It asks what the reader looks at first, and now I ask that of every screen I make at work.
Sipho N.Design student
3 months agoFinished
My portfolio reviews changed after this course. People asked about my process and research, where they used to ask about fonts.
Hiro T.Front-end developer
2 months agoFinished
I am an engineer, and by week two I could see why my layouts looked off to other people. I will never see spacing the same way again.
Kwame A.Graphic designer
1 month agoFinished
I came from print, and this course was the bridge. The exercises use real product screens, which was what I needed to see.
6 of 3,870 reviews
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No. The first module starts from nothing, and the tutor in each lesson answers the questions a first-timer asks, however basic they feel. What you need is 6 hours a week and a browser.
Nothing expires. 9 weeks at 6 hours a week is the pace the course was planned at, and at 4 hours it takes 14 weeks. The panel above works out a finish date for whatever pace you give it.
A start date, a finish date and a live review of the week's work every Thursday, with the same 30 people from the first week to the last. The lessons and the tutor are the ones the self-paced track gets.
A Professional Certificate, with a link an employer can open to check it and your reviewed project attached. It is the one credential on the site that hiring managers ask for by name, in the job ad itself.
Yes, within 30 days of enrolling, from your account page and with no form to fill in or reason to give. Lesson one is free with the tutor, so most people know the course suits them before they pay.
Waypoint Plus is $29 a month and opens this course along with every other. At $109 this one costs about 4 months of it, so buy it on its own if it is the only course you mean to take this year.
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