Making Your Own Apps

Nevan Scott

Design Teacher

Learn how to use AI coding tools to build your own designs

Looking around the world of product design right now, the landscape can look both fascinating and a little unnerving. The only certainty seems to be, well, change.

In response, we decided to create a course for designers who want to use AI coding tools to build their own apps.

You don't need a background in coding—in fact, that's kind of the point!

Likewise, if you do have some coding skills but are looking for guidance and structure to help you to better leverage AI tools at hand, this is the place to start.

The course teacher has ample experience teaching both design and coding skills. Nevan has been bringing design and code closer together for a long time. In fact, so long that he once used duct tape and baling wire to do so.

The next cohort will launch March 30th 2026.

If you're at all interested, take a look through this course page and sign up for course updates (right).

What you’ll learn

Become a designer who can prototype and launch real products—understanding architecture, data, users, and deployment.

  • Design and clearly communicate app ideas using technical vocabulary, mental models, and system-level thinking

  • Understand how frontend and backend components work together and make informed architectural decisions

  • Design data models and choose appropriate storage strategies for structured data, content, and media

  • Build multi-user applications with session management and foundational authentication patterns

  • Deploy apps to modern hosting platforms and manage the workflows and infrastructure that keep them running

  • Take ideas from concept to deployed prototype, evaluate code quality, and iteratively improve your work

Learn directly from Nevan

Nevan Scott

Nevan Scott

Instruction grounded in experience

Who this course is for

  • Designers with solid design experience but little coding knowledge who want to build working prototypes of their ideas.

  • Designers comfortable in tools like Figma who want to understand how web apps work and are ready to learn new tools and thinking.

  • Not for developers learning design, designers aiming to become professional engineers, or those seeking deep programming theory.

What's included

Nevan Scott

Live sessions

Learn directly from Nevan Scott in a real-time, interactive format.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund through the second week of the course.

Course syllabus

12 live sessions • 36 lessons

Week 1

Mar 30—Apr 5

    Mar

    30

    Session 1

    Mon 3/305:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Apr

    2

    Session 2

    Thu 4/25:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Building and Deploying Your First App

    8 items

Week 2

Apr 6—Apr 12

    Apr

    6

    Session 3

    Mon 4/65:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Apr

    9

    Session 4

    Thu 4/95:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Web App Architecture

    8 items

Schedule

Live sessions

4 hrs / week

    • Mon, Mar 30

      5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Apr 2

      5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    • Mon, Apr 6

      5:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Projects

4-8 hrs / week

Async content

2-4 hrs / week

Testimonials

  • Nevan is an exceptional educator. He pulls back the curtain on coding and offers foundational building blocks you need to start creating with real intention and less “vibing.” The async content is detailed and easy to follow, with a refreshing focus on writing, reflecting and documenting ideas before prompting LLMs. While we worked in Cursor, the material is tool-agnostic and stays focused on the core logic of building.


    As a product designer, I now feel significantly more confident designing in code and deploying functional web apps. I’m building things that actually work, but also look and behave as I intended!

    Take this course and make an app. You’ll be better for it!

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    Laima Mazeikyte

    Product Designer
  • Before joining Nevan’s course, I felt completely overwhelmed by AI and coding—new tools every day and endless noise about vibe coding.

    When I heard he was creating a course for designers, I knew it was exactly what I needed. Nevan is an excellent educator who truly knows his way and always creates a safe, inspiring learning environment.

    The course is thoughtfully curated and goes far beyond vibe coding. You learn to think in systems, understand architecture, and see how things really work behind your designs, giving you real power as a designer.

    And it's genuinely fun—you’re challenged in meaningful ways and surrounded by other designers who help push your skills further.

    This is a course every designer should take—you'll cut through all the noise and take the driver’s seat with AI.

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    Lara Perez

    Senior Product Designer
  • Nevan has the ability to make complex technical concepts feel approachable without dumbing them down. The content is well structured, progressive, and clearly designed with designers in mind, while still going deep into the technical aspects you actually need to understand.

    What I valued most was building real, working things, not prototypes or mockups, but actual deployed web apps. Having weekly projects to practise what we were learning was a great way to put the concepts into practice. I came away with a much better understanding of the architecture, logic, Git, and deployment behind any development process.

    Just as valuable was the environment created by the other designers in the course and the conversations between people, all trying to figure out where design practice is heading.

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    Cristina Guardiola

    Lead Product Designer

Teaser Trailer

Check out the kind of work you'll be creating.

Frequently asked questions

$1,599

USD

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