A wooden ruler, a mechanical pencil, blank index cards, and a blue ceramic vessel on a walnut office desk in window light.

Learn to create websites with appeal.

Lessons from basic HTML and CSS to layouts and graphics, grouped under Figma, FigJam, VSCode, Mobile, and Launching. For complete beginners and experienced designers.

Live at
ui.academy
Discipline
UI design education
Built and run in
Seattle, WA

Learn to create websites with appeal.

Plenty of developers can ship a page. Fewer can make one that looks like somebody meant it.

UI Academy teaches the craft in order, from the first HTML tag through layout and graphics, with tracks for Figma, FigJam, VSCode, mobile, and launching.

How It Operates

6 System Phases

HTML and CSS

The basics, from the first tag.

Layouts and graphics

More advanced techniques for pages that hold together.

Figma and FigJam

Design and whiteboard the work before you build it.

VSCode

The editor, set up the way working developers use it.

Mobile

Layouts that work on the phone first.

Launching

Getting the site out the door.

Core Capabilities

HTML and CSS from the first tag

The basics, taught as the foundation rather than a prerequisite to skip.

Layout and graphics

The techniques that make a page hold together.

Figma and FigJam

Design and whiteboard the work before building it.

Mobile and launching

Phone-first layouts, and getting the site out the door.

Learn to create websites with appeal.

Built for developers who can ship pages and want them to look better.

Who It Is Built For

Complete beginners through experienced designers, and developers who can ship a page and want it to look better.

Exclusions

Who It Is Not For

  • —A framework tutorial.
  • —A certificate you print and forget.

Extended Documentation

UI Academy teaches you to create websites with appeal. Lessons run from basic HTML and CSS to more advanced techniques for layouts and graphics, grouped under Figma, FigJam, VSCode, Mobile, and Launching.

It is for complete beginners and experienced designers alike, and for developers who can ship a page and want it to look better. Start with a free trial.

Designed, built, and run in-house.

Complete beginners through experienced designers, and developers who can ship a page and want it to look better.

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