What you'll learn this week
By the end of Week 1 you will be able to:
- Explain the difference between product design, UX, UI, and graphic design.
- Describe the end-to-end product design process and where each activity fits.
- Turn a vague idea into a sharp problem statement and "How Might We" questions.
- Run a basic brainstorm in FigJam and organize the output.
- Set up a clean Figma workspace you'll use all course.
The job, in one sentence
A product designer makes digital products useful, usable, and desirable — and can show why every screen looks and behaves the way it does.
Untangling the titles
- Graphic design — visual communication: posters, logos, brand. Beauty and message.
- UI (user interface) design — the visual layer of a product: buttons, type, color, layout. What it looks like.
- UX (user experience) design — how it works: flows, structure, research, whether people can actually do the thing.
- Product design — the umbrella: UX + UI + business awareness. You care whether the product solves a real problem people will actually use — and you design it end to end.
These overlap everywhere in real jobs. This course trains the full product designer stack, which makes you employable across all of these titles.
The process you'll live for 12 weeks
Discover → Define → Design → Test → Deliver.
Discover the real problem (research). Define it sharply (framing). Design solutions (flows → wireframes → hi-fi → prototype). Test with real people. Deliver to developers. It's a loop, not a line — testing sends you back to designing, and that's the process working, not failing.
Try it now
Pick an app you use daily. Write one sentence: what problem does it solve, and for whom? If you can't answer crisply, notice how that feels — that fuzziness is exactly what Weeks 1–2 teach you to eliminate.