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UI/UX & Product Design
Decide how a product should work and feel before anyone spends months building it.
Why it's in demand
The judgement layer AI tools still can't replace
Realistic timeline
3–6 months to a first portfolio
Free resources
4 curated links
Design is now the most defensible half of product work. Generating screens is cheap; knowing which screens should exist, and why, is not.
Learn the tool and the thinking in parallel. A beautiful portfolio with no reasoning behind it reads as decoration to the people who hire.
What you'll be able to do
- Design interfaces in Figma that engineers can build from
- Justify design decisions with research instead of taste
- Build a case-study portfolio that gets you interviews