Become a Product Designer

Master Figma (Beginner to Shipped Product)

Figma is the universal design tool. Fluency here is the price of entry to every other milestone on this path.

Complete 100-Day UI Challenge

100 consecutive days of UI design builds the visual vocabulary that no course can replicate. The output is also the raw material for your portfolio.

Build a UX Design Portfolio

A UX portfolio is the hiring manager's first filter. Case studies that show your thinking process — not just final screens — are the proof that gets interviews.

Design and Ship a Mobile App UI

Designing a mobile app UI that ships to real users proves you can work within real constraints — platform guidelines, safe areas, and actual screen sizes.

Get First Paid Design Client

A first paid design client is the commercial validation milestone. It proves someone with money to spend trusted your judgment over a free alternative.

Ship a Design System in Production

Optional. A production design system proves you can work at engineering-adjacent scale — components that real developers use, not just components that look good in Figma.

Master Brand Identity Design

Optional. Brand identity is the specialisation fork for designers who want to work with founders and early-stage companies on naming, logo, and visual system from scratch.

The primary design tool for this entire path. Free for 3 projects. Complete the in-app tutorials before any other resource — they teach the tool through real design tasks, not abstract walkthroughs.

The best free design education on YouTube. Chris Do covers design thinking, client work, and pricing — the parts of design school that most courses skip entirely.

Audit for free on Coursera. Seven courses covering research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing. The portfolio prompts map directly onto case study structure hiring managers expect.

Free reference for the psychological principles behind good UX. Bookmark it — every design decision you cannot explain with one of these principles needs rethinking.

Free random design challenge generator. Use it for the 100-day UI challenge — a fresh prompt each day removes the decision fatigue that causes most people to abandon the challenge by week 2.