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The problems with UI/UX bootcamps that hiring managers won’t tell you
When creative education turned into assembly lines
These days, it seems like every other friend’s boyfriend’s colleague’s cousins want to become a UI/UX designer.
As a designer and educator that opened up a design school recently, I should be thrilled, right?
Not so fast.
When I decided to become an entrepreneur in my own industry, I became drawn to the education side of it accidentally.
I was looking to improve my public speaking skills for conferences and teaching was recommended to me as a way to practice speaking in public while getting paid for it.
Through introductions, I became an adjunct professor at several universities, an instructor at a few design schools and a design mentor at different bootcamps.
“Job Guarantee” Becomes Another Student Debt Trap
One of the biggest draws to bootcamps and for-profit design schools is that they offer Income Share Agreements (ISA), which is essentially a form of student loan with a fancy name.
Students don’t pay a penny while they attend the bootcamps. Instead, they sign an agreement to payback a certain percentage…
