Leg 1, finishedGuided Project
No prerequisite
Design research interviews
First, because every screen after it starts from what five people told you.
Finished9 hoursFreeMara Lindqvist, verified instructor
All 13 items done
Drafted by the tutor
Move into product design
Research that changes the brief, not decoration after it.
5 courses · 149 hours
Beginner to Advanced
Taught by Mara Lindqvist and Noor Aziz
The five courses
2Leg 2
Professional CertificateNo prerequisite
Interface fundamentals
Layout, type and color, taught through forty critiques of real screens.
Weeks 1–654 hours$109Mara Lindqvist, verified instructor
3Leg 3
CourseAfter2 Interface fundamentals
Typography for interfaces
The type in leg 2 taken further, from a 12px label to a 60px headline.
Weeks 7–815 hours$69Noor Aziz, verified instructor
4Leg 4
CourseAfter1 Design research interviews, cleared2 Interface fundamentals
Prototyping for engineers
The interviews and the screens meet here, in a test run before anyone builds.
Weeks 8–1016 hours$59Mara Lindqvist, verified instructor
5Leg 5
SpecializationAfter3 Typography for interfaces4 Prototyping for engineers
Design systems in practice
Last and the longest: the tokens and parts a whole team builds from.
Weeks 10–1655 hours$139Mara Lindqvist, verified instructor
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Your week
9 hours a week, until February 10, 2027. Sessions start at 7pm on weekdays and at 9am on weekends.
Mon2 h
7pm8pmTue1 h
7pmWed1 h
7pmThu1 h
7pmFriOff
Sat3 h
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Before you start
What to bring
Opinions on the apps you use every day. The first course needs a notebook and five people.
When a week goes badly
Nothing expires. Lower the hours and the date moves, and the courses you own stay yours.
What the certificate asks
All five courses and their projects. A course you know counts once its project is reviewed.
One certificate for the whole path
It lists the five courses, their hours and their reviewed projects, and an employer can check it at its own address.
- Median salary
- $102,000
- First product design role, reported by 610 graduates twelve months out.
- Open roles
- 3,900
- Asked for research and a design system, on the boards we track.
- Hired within a year
- 58%
- Of those who finished all five courses and their projects.
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Questions
What people ask before they start a path
A person answers anything this list does not. Ask us.
No. The order is the tutor's advice: every course opens on its own, and each card says which courses it builds on. Take them in any order you like and the finish date is worked out the same way.
Yes. Any course in the catalog opens on its own and sits on your dashboard beside the path. The finish date counts only the five on it.
From lesson one at 9 hours a week, it runs 17 weeks, or 4 months of Waypoint Plus at $116. Bought one by one, the five courses cost $376 and stay yours. Below 3 hours a week, buying them is cheaper.
The courses you bought stay yours. The ones you took on Plus close until you start it again, and your progress waits where you left it.
Its teacher can update its lessons, and you keep your place in the ones you finished. If a course leaves the catalog, the tutor puts the closest one in its place and the path keeps its order.
It matches your goal to the courses in the catalog, then orders them by what each builds on. The instructors who teach them check that order, and the note on every card, before a learner sees it.
Pick the hours. Keep the date.
Lesson one of all five courses is free, with the tutor beside it. Plus opens everything else for $29 a month and stops when you do.
No card for lesson one. Plus cancels in one click.
