4 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Unlock the mindset of a UX designer and bring your ideas to life — faster, smarter, and cleaner in just 4 days.
4 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Unlock the mindset of a UX designer and bring your ideas to life — faster, smarter, and cleaner in just 4 days.
Erin Essex's Work experience
Course overview
Figma has become the go-to tool for modern design teams and solo creators. Whether you’re sketching your very first wireframe or collaborating on polished prototypes, this course will give you the confidence and skills to create, collaborate, and share ideas seamlessly. In just three sessions, you’ll go from beginner to confident user—ready to design smarter and faster.
What You'll Learn:
• Navigate Figma with Ease: understand the platform’s anatomy, shortcuts, and interface.
• Collaborate in Real Time: use FigJam for brainstorming, whiteboarding, and group ideation.
• Design with Confidence: create clean, consistent layouts and apply design basics like alignment, typography, and color.
• Prototype and Share: bring designs to life with interactions, preview/test flows, and share to stakeholders with conviction.
• Design from Low to High-Fidelity: go from low to high-fidelity prototyping as you create your own polished design in Figma.
• Leverage Advanced Tools: build reusable components, work with grids, and add interactivity like sticky bars and horizontal scroll.
How You'll Learn
• Live demos of key Figma and FigJam features.
• Guided exercises so you can practice right away.
• Collaboration with peers on small design challenges.
• Real-time feedback to make sure you’re building solid, practical skills.
What You'll Gain
• A completed project designed in Figma to showcase your skills.
• Reusable components & assets that will save you time in future projects.
• Practical shortcuts & workflows to design like a pro.
• Confidence to collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers directly in Figma.
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Beginners who want to learn Figma from scratch.
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Startup founders who want to prototype and validate ideas quickly without waiting on a design hire.
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Graphic designers looking for a new tool and skills for UI, product, and collaborative design.
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Non-designers who need to quickly visualize and communicate ideas.
(marketers, PMs, engineers, etc.)
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Small business owners who want to create their own branding assets, marketing visuals, or simple interfaces without outsourcing everything.
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UX/UI designers looking to sharpen their workflow and collaborate better with teams.
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No matter your role, come build your skills so you can bring your ideas to life, collaborate better, and design with confidence.
Hands-on experience
You will gain hands-on experience in Figma working on wireframes, high fidelity designs, and basic prototyping.
Applicable skills
Learn how to use components, auto layout, grids, and basic animation in Figma.
Build confidence
Have more confidence entering a broader UX world, whether it be in work meetings or for new personal projects.
Cleaner prototypes
Elevate the realism of your prototypes.
Small class size
Each cohort is limited to 10 people for a more hands on experience per student.
Private Figma Video Library
You’ll gain lifetime access to my private Figma video library, packed with step-by-step tutorials on how to use components, variables, and other key features of Figma as it continues to evolve and update.

Live sessions
Learn directly from Erin Essex in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Private Figma Library Access
Never feel lost on Figma again with the ongoing video library.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
4 live sessions • 17 lessons • 2 projects
Dec
15
Day 1 Zoom link
Dec
16
Day 2 Zoom link
Dec
17
Day 3: Optional Office Hours Zoom Link
Dec
18
Day 4 Zoom Link
Amy Henderson
Allison Mui
I’m Erin Essex, a UX designer, instructor, and content creator with over a decade of experience helping teams bring ideas to life through design. I’ve taught hundreds of students—from beginners to mid-career professionals—how to level up their design skills. In this course, I’ll give you the tools, tips, and shortcuts you need to use Figma like a pro, and the confidence to keep growing beyond class.
Join an upcoming cohort
December cohort
$349
Dates
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4-6 hours per week
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
6:30pm - 9:00pm EST
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday are dedicated class days were you will learn how to navigate, design, prototype and work in Figma.
Wednesday (Optional)
6:30pm - 8:30pm EST
Wednesday is an optional office hour session. Feel free to bring your final project and any other Figma related questions you have to the meeting.
Final Project
2-4 hours
Create a clickable mobile app prototype and demonstrate the UX/UI decisions made behind the design.
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Join an upcoming cohort
December cohort
$349
Dates
Payment Deadline