MENTOR-LED PROGRAM

You learned design.
What's next?

You know the tools. Now learn how real product teams think, work, and build digital experiences.

Learn UX/UI, integrate AI into your design workflow, build practical projects, and grow with experienced mentors.

Explore Supported Work

Real Portfolio Work

Practical apps and web systems built for genuine product use cases.

Direct Mentor Critique

Line-by-line Figma feedback on layouts, interactions, and typography.

Practical Design Learning

Step-by-step frameworks that turn blank canvases into structured workflows.

Focused Community

A collaborative cohort of aspiring designers growing together.

Why Craft to Career

Too much design content.
Not enough direction.

YouTube and Instagram are full of UI tips, but scattered content rarely builds a career. We bring the learning into one clear, practical path.

01 · Structure

Know where to begin.

  • Follow a clear 8-week learning path
  • Learn in the right sequence
  • Move from UX foundations to portfolio
  • Stop jumping between random tutorials
Aspiring UX designer beginning the design journey
02 · Practice

Turn learning into work.

  • Work on real product problems
  • Create UX and UI artifacts
  • Build flows, wireframes and systems
  • Learn by actually making
Designer actively creating wireframes and digital designs
03 · Guidance

Know what to improve.

  • Get direct mentor critique
  • Understand why a design works or fails
  • Improve hierarchy, interaction and accessibility
  • Learn how to explain your decisions
Design mentor providing actionable feedback to a learner
The Transformation

From confusion to confidence.

See the exact shift that happens when you replace disconnected tutorials with personalized mentorship and real design critique.

Where You Are

The Current Struggle
  • Not sure where to start

    Overwhelmed by scattered videos, conflicting tips, and bloated roadmaps.

  • Random tutorials

    Passive watching without building real muscle memory or problem-solving rationale.

  • Making screens without systems

    Decorating UI visuals without understanding user flows, edge cases, or usability.

  • No feedback

    Designing alone in a bubble, unsure whether your work is junior or hireable.

  • Unsure about portfolio

    Hesitant to apply for design jobs because your case studies feel generic.

Where You Can Grow

Craft to Career Outcome
  • Structured learning

    Clear, day-by-day progression covering research, wireframes, craft, and validation.

  • Practical work

    Work through actual design briefs that mirror what product teams build in industry.

  • Senior guidance

    Mentors with 6+ and 4+ years of hands-on experience guiding every key design decision.

  • Actionable feedback

    Detailed critiques that show you how to iterate and polish your work to senior standards.

  • Portfolio confidence

    Stand behind your case studies with clear articulate storytelling that impresses interviewers.

The Result: Portfolio Confidence Before You Graduate

You finish with real artifacts, tested designs, and the ability to articulate every UX decision you made.

Core Pillars & Program Structure

Step into the market without the fear.

Build the foundations, systems and portfolio skills you need to move from learning design to working with confidence.

01

UX Foundations

  • Understand users
  • Define real problems
  • Find meaningful opportunities
02

UX Design

  • Map user flows
  • Organize information
  • Build clear wireframes
03

UI Design

  • Typography & hierarchy
  • Colour & accessibility
  • Responsive visual systems
04

Tools & Systems

  • Advanced Figma workflows
  • Components & auto layout
  • Design systems & tokens
05

Portfolio & Career

  • Build strong case studies
  • Tell the story behind decisions
  • Present work with confidence

Want the full breakdown?

Explore the complete 8-week curriculum.

Download Curriculum PDF
DESIGNING IN THE AI ERA

Don't just design with tools.
Learn to think with AI.

AI is becoming part of the product-design process. Learn how to use it as a design assistant across research, product thinking and design execution, while keeping your own judgement and creativity at the centre.

Stage 1 PRD & Scope
Stage 2 Research Synthesis
Stage 3 Design Execution
Stage 4 Review & Critique
Stage 5 Refinement
Designer collaborating with AI assistants and tools in a modern design workflow
Practical AI-Assisted Workflow

AI assists the designer. The designer makes the decisions.

We teach you how to prompt, critique, and synthesize — keeping human product sense, empathy, and creative direction firmly in control. AI accelerates the groundwork so you can focus on craft and strategy.

01 · Product Thinking

Structure problems & PRDs

Use ChatGPT to explore product problems, structure PRDs, understand requirements and organise information.

02 · Research Assistance

Organize findings & cluster insights

Use AI to organise research findings, identify patterns, cluster information and explore insights.

03 · Design Assistance

Review usability & iterate faster

Use AI as a design assistant to review interfaces, question usability decisions, receive design feedback and explore improvements.

04 · Figma Workflows

Agent-assisted execution

Explore Figma AI and agent-assisted workflows to support design execution and improve the efficiency of design tasks.

YOUR LEARNING SPACE

One place for your
entire learning journey.

A dedicated learning platform to access your course materials, revisit sessions, submit assignments, track your progress and receive mentor feedback.

crafttocareer.site/student/dashboard
Active Portal
S Suresh (Student)

Welcome back, Suresh 👋

Here's what you need to focus on today.

BATCH 02 · 8-WEEK SPRINT IN PROGRESS
UI/UX Design Masterclass & AI Workflows

Week 3 of 8 · Information Architecture & User Journeys

Milestone Progress 38% Completed
UPCOMING DELIVERABLE Due Sunday
Costa Coffee — Architecture Flowchart

Map all checkout decision branches and edge-cases inside your Figma sprint artboard.

SB Sureshbabu (Senior Mentor)

"Strong user flow on coffee customization. Watch your hit targets on the primary order CTA before high-fi handoff."

01 · Student Dashboard

A dedicated space for learners to access and manage their learning journey.

02 · Course Materials

Access structured learning resources and syllabus guides in one place.

03 · Session Recordings

Revisit previous learning sessions, Figma workshops, and demos when needed.

04 · Assignments & Submissions

Access assignments and submit practical learning activities directly.

05 · Learning Progress

Follow learning progress and milestone completion throughout the program.

06 · Mentor Feedback

Receive feedback on submitted work and understand clear areas for improvement.

Audience

Who is Craft to Career for?

Designed for curious minds ready to turn design theory into career-ready execution.

College student working on UX foundations

College Students

Build real-world UX foundations before campus placements.

Fresh graduate preparing production-ready design portfolio

Fresh Graduates

Turn tool knowledge into production-ready project work.

Self-taught designer learning UX through structured path

Self-Taught Designers

Replace scattered tutorials with one structured, guided path.

Early-career designer leveling up design systems and UI craft

Early-Career Designers

Level up visual polish, UX rationale, and design systems.

Professional transitioning into digital product design

Career Switchers

Transition into digital product design with hands-on mentorship.

Upcoming Cohorts

Upcoming Batches

Choose the next available cohort and take the next step with mentor-led learning.

01 Completed
Cohort Starts

October 1, 2026

Batch in progress / Completed

02 Enrolling Now
Cohort Starts

November 23, 2026

Enrollment starts November 6, 2026

03 Upcoming
Cohort Starts

January 25, 2027

Enrollment opens January 10, 2027

The Method

Learn by doing.

No passive lectures. Every phase involves real hands-on creation, personalized mentor critique, and iterative refinement.

Stage 01

Learn — Understand the problem

Begin with a real product opportunity brief, user research data, and competitive positioning. You learn how to deconstruct user needs before jumping to visual styling.

Aspiring UX designer reviewing printed research briefs and problem materials before designing
Real Artifact: Problem Definition Brief with user personas, journey pain points, and objective constraints.
Stage 02

Practice — Turn learning into actual design work

Transform research insights into structural wireframes and comprehensive decision flows. Define every branching state, customer path, and system touchpoint.

Designer actively creating digital wireframes on laptop with hand-drawn sketches in a notebook
Real Artifact: Costa User Architecture Flowchart detailing account registration, navigation, menu categorization, and checkout.
Stage 03

Get feedback — Understand what works and what can improve

Receive line-by-line annotations directly on your Figma artboards. Mentors review typography scaling, button hit targets, spatial rhythm, and accessibility contrast.

Senior design mentor providing 1-on-1 critique on laptop wireframes with attentive learners
Real Artifact: Figma layer tree review with design critiques highlighting roast customization sliders and order status badges.
Stage 04

Improve — Refine your work through iteration

Take feedback, fix weaknesses, and build an elevated high-fidelity system ready for real-world devices. The difference between raw drafts and production-grade craft.

Indian product designer refining a digital product layout on laptop in a modern design studio
Real Practice: Refining design decisions through mentor feedback and iteration.
Mentored by Design Practitioners

Supported Work

Real portfolio work and product thinking crafted with line-by-line feedback and design practitioner guidance.

Kejal — Product Designer Portfolio
Supported Work · 2025–2026

Kejal

Product Designer · UX Research & Behavioral Design

View Portfolio
Karthick — UI/UX Designer Portfolio
Supported Work · 2025–2026

Karthick

UI/UX Designer · Interaction & Systems Design

View Portfolio
Meet Your Mentors

Learn with designers who do the work.

Two experienced designers. One shared goal — helping you build the skills, confidence, and work to move forward.

Sureshbabu Shanmugaraj - Senior UI/UX Designer
Mentor 01

Sureshbabu Shanmugaraj

Senior UI/UX Designer · 6+ Years Experience

Key Expertise
UX Strategy User Research Interaction Design Design Systems
Nitya - Product Designer
Mentor 02

Nitya

Product Designer · 4 Years Experience

Key Expertise
Product Design UX/UI Design Research & Testing Design Craft

Different strengths. Shared responsibility.

We don't split teaching into isolated silos. We bring complementary perspectives to the learning experience while supporting students together across UX, UI, product thinking, and portfolio development.

Community

Learn with designers doing the real work.

Build your career alongside designers who are actively navigating the tech industry. Real work. Real progress. Real confidence.

Designers connecting, discussing ideas, and learning together in a collaborative studio
Got Questions?

Frequently asked questions.

Everything you need to know about the Craft to Career program, time commitments, and mentorship structure.

Craft to Career is built for early-stage learners: college students, fresh graduates, self-taught designers who want structured direction beyond random tutorials, junior designers seeking actionable feedback, and career switchers moving toward product design.

No prior professional UX/UI experience is required. We start with fundamental Human-Centered Design principles, role definitions, and Figma basics before gradually building toward complex systems and portfolio production.

You will learn the complete product design cycle: user research, problem statements, information architecture, wireframing, high-fidelity visual design systems, interactive prototyping, usability testing, and case study storytelling.

Sessions combine guided concept breakdowns, live Figma workshops, real-world case study walkthroughs, and weekly critique sessions where mentors review your work and provide direct feedback.

Yes! That is the core difference of Craft to Career. You receive direct, annotated feedback on your actual Figma files and design artifacts from Sureshbabu and Nitya at every milestone.

Simply click "Enquire About the Program" and submit your details. Cohort seats are limited to keep cohort groups small and ensure high-touch personal mentorship. Enquiring members get first access when enrollment opens.

Confidence & Clarity

தமிழில் கற்றுக்கொள்.
Execute in English.

Learn the concepts in Tamil, practise the language of product design in English, and build the confidence to explain your work in interviews.

You don't need perfect English to start. You need the right design vocabulary, practice and confidence to communicate your thinking.