Kings UX Design Career Accelerator

CAREER ACCELERATOR

King’s UX & UI Product Design

Build a flexible, fulfilling career as a versatile product designer with a strong portfolio and a King’s certificate.

Developed in collaboration with industry leaders

6 months online

15-20 hours per week
(Excludes live sessions and time with Success Team)

Starts 5 May 2025

Accepting late registrations until 12 May 2025

Structured but flexible

Weekly goals. Your schedule.

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Get more than skills – get results

Aman Birdi

From digital marketer to marketing executive (UX Design) in 4 months.

Rizal Azlan

“Kudus to the programme – everything that I learned was very useful straight away in the business world and any of the freelance gigs that I did.”

Klaudia Skiban

“When I look at the obstacles back when I was trying to make a decision, they seem so small. This definitely paid off."

Siobhán Stevenson

Changed careers from software engineering to UX design.

What you’ll learn

Each of the three, six-week courses is purpose-built to give you the practical capability you need to stand out in the industry. In the fourth and final course – a six-week Employer Project – you’ll apply what you’ve learned to a real-world scenario.

2 WEEKS

Onboarding and Goal Setting

You’ll start with two weeks of Orientation, where you’ll get comfortable with the online learning platform, connect with fellow learners, and plan your studies. You’ll also meet your Success Manager and Career Coach, who will help you personalise your plan of attack to achieve your version of success.
6 WEEKS

Course 1: Understanding users

Truly understanding users requires a combination of technical skills (such as research methodologies, user recruitment techniques and analytical frameworks) as well as interpersonal skills, including empathy, active listening, collaboration and observation. In this course, you’ll acquire a wide range of technical and human skills that are at the core of the UX design role.
6 WEEKS

Course 2: Designing for user needs

In this course, you'll explore the iterative processes that shape the creation of wireframes and prototypes. You'll learn how UX designers collaborate within Agile teams to discover, visualise, test, and refine ideas, weaving them into user-centred designs. By understanding the intricacies of user flows, information architecture, and interaction design principles, you'll develop the expertise to craft accessible and meaningful user experiences.
6 WEEKS

Course 3: User-centred optimisation

Throughout Course 3, you’ll learn how to design and build high-fidelity prototypes and prepare them for design handoff, the process in which you deliver design work to the development team for build. In addition, you’ll focus on continuous optimisation, which is all about incorporating user feedback and data to continuously improve a UX experience. You’ll also have the opportunity to conclude your work on HabitHero and develop additional case study work for your portfolio in Module 5: Continuous optimisation and Module 6: Developing your UX career.
6 WEEKS

Employer Project

Here you'll put your new skills to work in a practical business project based on a real design challenge set by a real-world company. You’ll work in groups to find the best solution and present your work in the final week. The result is a relevant case study you can add to your portfolio.

Who you’ll learn from

Subject Experts

To ensure relevance and rigour, the programme content is developed in consultation with both university faculty and industry leaders.

Facilitators

Get both live and on-demand guidance from experienced professionals for content challenges and industry best practices.

Career Coaches

Set yourself up for long-term success in your career through a mix of one-to-one sessions and interactive masterclasses with your coach.

Get proof of what you know and of what you can do

If you want to stand out, you need the right knowledge and the ability to translate it into action.

The university certificate you’ll earn once you graduate is a recognised mark of excellence that helps you stand out in a competitive market. To complement the certificate, you can use the Employer Project as a case study to prove the relevance of what you’ve learned and your ability to deliver commercial value to a business.

Different ways to invest in your career

Accessing our flexible payment plans is easier than you think (it takes less than 5 minutes). Book a call with an Enrolment Advisor to see if you qualify – chances are, you do.

Once-off (100%)

reduced rate

Benefit from a reduced rate by making payment upfront, in full, prior to the start of the programme.

~~£5,995~~

£5,495

UPFRONT

6 months
(10%)

Flexible deposit

Make a 10% deposit followed by six monthly payments of £899.25 each.

£899.25

MONTHLY

6 months
(30%)

Flexible deposit

Make a 30% deposit followed by six monthly payments of £657.75 each

£657.75

MONTHLY

24 months
(StepEx)

Spread the cost

Make a 10% deposit followed by 24 monthly payments of £224.81 each

£224.81

MONTHLY

What could you earn as a UX designer?

As of July 2024, insights from Glassdoor indicate that a UX designer in the UK is likely to earn:

up to £65k per year

up to £82k per year for those in senior roles

up to £72K per year for UX researchers.

If you’re a business, you could be our next partner

We work with industry partners in a few different ways, and we’re open to finding a way that works for you. Here are some of the benefits.

Outsource a project

Co-design a business project to get access to the minds of a group of ambitious and diverse professionals who are solely focused on solving your business problem.

Train your team

We’ll work with you to find a custom solution for your team on all or part of a programme. As learners or mentors, they’ll benefit from relevant skills and university-approved knowledge.

Make recruitment easier

Transform the way you recruit for complex digital roles with exposure to a highly relevant pool of talent and tangible proof of what they’re capable of.

“Working as part of the Employer Project has been valuable to us as an organisation. We were fortunate to work closely with an extremely talented cohort, benefitting from the insights and ideas they shared.”

– John Kostovski, Product Manager – Identify, DocuSign

Why learn UX and UI product design?

Product design sets the foundation for a user’s experience with a business, brand and product. If that experience is bad, 88% of consumers won’t return to that site. The difference between bad and good UX and UI design can radically impact a company’s conversation rate, sales and ultimately success.

Businesses are now prioritising product design, which is one reason the demand for UX/UI designers is projected to grow by 16% from 2022 to 2032, much faster than the average for all occupations.

Product design is an accessible career to make a start in or change to; a glimpse into the Career Accelerator shows us that learners have backgrounds in teaching, banking, and office work; and 44% come from digital roles like marketing, development and design.

You’ll play a critical role in business by shaping not only how products look and function, but also how people interact with technology in our increasingly digital world

A holistic approach for ongoing impact

Career Accelerators address four knowledge and skill groups that lay the foundations for sustainable career success.

Technical

Technical knowledge, skills, and experience in high-demand technologies.

Business

The business understanding needed to apply technical skills in a meaningful way.

Employability

Human skills essential for
on-the-job performance, promotions, and leadership.

Personal

Self-awareness and reflective capabilities critical for sustained career growth.

If you’re not sure, speak to someone

Find out if this programme will suit you and your goals by talking to an Enrolment Advisor. They’ll help you feel confident in your decision (whether it’s a yes or a no).

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