Our 12-week course allows students to learn and apply the skills to start a career in user experience design. Attend our classes on-campus in Salt Lake City, Utah and learn with in-person guidance from our team of experienced instructors.
Plug yourself into a culture of creating, building, and achieving success with like minded people. Our expert faculty love sharing their craft, and empowering the next wave of programmers and entrepreneurs.
Established developers, alumni, and industry experts all get involved in your education. That makes for a perfect combination of mentors who know where you are starting, where you are at, and where you are going.
Did someone say free housing? You heard right. All full-time students can take advantage of DevMountain's free and fully-furnished housing. Housing is conveniently located next to all DevMountain campuses.
Our immersive classes are equipped with on-campus career guidance counselors. These counselors will work face-to-face with you to get you ready for a successful career.
Build your resume and portfolio with help from our experienced career coaching team. Work face-to-face to develop a job search plan that works best for you.
Our counselors will work with you to find the perfect job for you. You’ll go through mock interviews and learn how to ace your first interview as a designer.
You’ll get lifetime access to our exclusive “Meet n’ Hire” events where you’ll be able to network with employers who are looking for awesome designers like you.
Our Bootcamp will teach you more than coding — you’ll learn how to solve problems and be a self-sufficient designer. When you’re fully immersed in our curriculum you’ll master the fundamental building blocks of User Experience Design, making you a highly valuable, desirable asset throughout your career.
The course is rigorous but we break up our schedule with lectures, presentations, labs, and project building. A typical day at DevMountain campus could look like the example day schedule below.
Class Warm Up
Previous day reviews and code exercises that strengthen concepts and skills
Instructor-led Lessons
Learn key objectives through guided practice, discussions, presentations, guest lectures and activities
Nom nom time
Continue to work through lunch, grab a bite at a local spot, or make your own at our on-campus kitchens
Labs & Workstation
Guided practice with on-hand mentors to work on weekly, personal, and group projects. Work on labs solo or in groups. Receive over-the-shoulder help whenever it is needed.
One-on-one check-ins
Regular check-ins from our student success crew, employer relations team, and instructors / mentors
End of formal class
Many mentors live in DevMountain housing and stay on campus around the clock. Campus is open to mentors, employees, instructors, and of course students all day everyday!
You will learn research skills that will help you gather qualitative and quantitative data. We will help teach you to use that data to find actionable insights that will help improve and shape products. We will cover conducting user research interviews. You will learn how to use analytics to discover opportunities to improve experiences.
Prototyping is a really important tool for validating the design direction of the user's experience. Prototyping often leads to rapid improvements and a much better product. You will learn how to build low fidelity and high fidelity prototypes with industry standard prototyping tools.
You will learn how to architect the information of a product. You will learn tools and strategies that will help you to build user flows and make sense of products. You will learn to sketch and wireframe to help you facilitate important conversations with key stakeholders and more efficiently solve design problems. You will learn the essentials to creating succesful microinteractions.
You will learn important design principles that will enable you to design successful user interfaces. You will learn industry leading design software that will use for the rest of your career.
You will learn princples of animation and motion that will help you design modern interface that feel natural for the user.
You will learn really important skills and knowledge that will help you launch your career in UX
During this 12 week course you will build personal, group, and cohort projects using all the skills we teach you in class. Check out some of our past student projects below.
DevMountain's expert instructors are passionate about sharing their craft and empowering the next wave of programmers, entrepreneurs and designers.
Did someone say free housing? Yes. All full-time students can take advantage of DevMountain free housing, available on a first come first serve basis. Housing is provided during your time in our program. No other code bootcamp offers anything like it.
Learn More About Our Free HousingOur goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to come and learn, assisting through finances is just one of those ways. We know that your education is important, and we believe that a lack of funds shouldn't be a reason to not participate.
Our financing partners offer favorable loan options to accepted DevMountain students. Once you apply, we will put you in contact with our financing partners. Contact us with any questions so we can figure out the best option for you.
Head to www.devmountain.com/apply and select the course and start date of your choice. You will be prompted to:
Our application process has 3 simples parts:
We typically keep our classes between 20-30 people. DevMountain has come to find that anything over 30 people takes away from learning, and anything less than 20 takes away from peer-to-peer learning and groups. We have found that 20-30 is the sweet spot.
DevMountain simply can not guarantee jobs upon completion of the course. Why? Because it is up to you what you do with the education you are given. DevMountain works hard to help you. We do a number of things to help graduates of our immersive programs find jobs afterwards:
DevMountain does offer scholarships from time to time. Contact our admissions team for up to date scholarship information.
DevMountain does not accept government granted financial aid including scholarships, grants, GI benefits, etc. DevMountain is not a Title IV school.
Financing options are available through 3rd party lenders whose information can be found at devmountain.com/financing.