"Not too bad, considering bootcamps charge around $10,000"
Eh but as UXer then, you should wonder why, and even if I do not consider us a bootcamp but rather a philantropic school with a UX program that now cost 320 euro for 600-800 hours, there's a reason if most popular bootcamps does not cost like a Udemy or Coursera course.
IH it's a 450hours course, the fulltime version has a teacher in a physical classroom for 8 hours.
A Senior, in Germany, get above 60k per year, which is going to cost 72.6k per year to the business. Then you have the cost for the program managers, the director, marketing, career counselor...
UX it's an immense field that cannot be trained in a pill course, there's just too much and these short courses are just good updates for people interested in knowing what is UX.
"Each course is very detailed when it comes to UX",
That course it's not detailed. To know what is detailed, you must know what is the whole story. Nothing served in 250h can be considered detailed when the whole story count for thousands of hours.
"but in my opinion, very poor when it comes to UI"
If you think this because there's not much work on Figma, well the vast majority of bootcamps are poor in that area, and the reason is simple. It's worthless to include how Figma works, because there's a plethora of free utube videos and because well, the learning curve is nothing trascendental. Two weeks of full work you ge the basics, one month full time and you are done.
if your main focus is on getting a job where you work as a designer and not a researcher, you will need to find some other courses out there.
If your main focus is on getting a job, then you will have to study and practicing much more than this short course which certainly does not prepare you in any possible way to work as a researcher.
The bottom line is, if it’s good enough for Google, it’s good enough for me.
While there articles that tell a different story, that it is not good for Google neither, this is a gigantic terryfing bias, of the same type we have seen with the expansion of NNgroup and the promotion of Design Thinking from d.School first and then IDEO.
People wish to get the best value with the minimum effort and wish to believe to anything that require minimum cognitive effort, that's where heuristics kick in and biases flourish.
"Hey take this course of just 250 hours, you will become a UX Designer"
brain: "hey it's made by google, so it must be real and good"
critical thinking to your brain: "hey, based on what? how is that people went to university or studies the double of triple of the hours?"
bias: "shut up bro, it's super cool"
UX is not UI
UX is the research, the ‘WHY’ are you even doing what you’re doing, before you grab your pen and paper and start designing your masterpiece.
i don't want to comment this, because there's a lot to say, but this is a valid example of why that course it's incomplete and does not prepare you for the job
