App Academy

Gain the foundational skills of professional designers and product teams. From understanding user behavior to perfecting layouts, you’ll learn to bring your ideas to life.

Turn Ideas into Apps

Explore the principles of user‑centered design, user interface, and user experience.

  • User-Centered Design: Discover how professional designers research, observe, and empathize with users to create intuitive digital experiences. Learn techniques like user interviews, empathy mapping, and creating personas.
  • Rapid Prototyping & Ideation: Practice turning ideas into prototypes rapidly. Use paper sketches, digital wireframes, and interactive mock-ups to iterate and validate your app concepts effectively.
  • AI-Powered Prototypes: Use AI tools like Claude and v0 to accelerate user research, analyze user needs, and test your assumptions quickly.

Go Beyond Pretty

Master how databases power today’s apps by creating your own full-stack JavaScript applications.

  • Typography & Design: Learn foundational CS concepts by building interactive apps with SQL and modern ORMs like Prisma, preparing you for real-world development.
  • Information Architecture: Use APIs and data from Spotify, College Scorecard, and diverse fields such as Science, Weather, Finance, and Medicine to build meaningful and impressive projects.
  • AI-Driven Design: Turbocharge your productivity with AI to quickly debug SQL queries, design schemas, and enhance your app functionality.

Easy to Use and Love

Design delightful interactions and intuitive interfaces that users love.

  • Standard UI Patterns: Explore proven patterns for navigation, layout, forms, content, and responsive design. Create frictionless experiences using standardized, recognizable UI components.
  • Interactive Experiences: Learn how to design delightful animations and micro-interactions. Understand why subtle details, transitions, and feedback make apps feel intuitive, polished, and engaging.
  • AI-Enhanced Interaction: Accelerate your workflow by leveraging AI tools to quickly design and refine interactions, analyze usability, and validate accessible design choices.

Ship Your First App

Use the latest AI tools to build your first app. Put it on the App Store for people to use.

  • From Prototype to Product: Take your final UI designs and transform them into a fully functioning app with the latest AI-driven app-generation tools like AppGen. Go from idea to deployable app without complex coding.
  • Marketing & Sharing Your App: Create a compelling landing page and pitch deck for your app that will draw people in. Discover simple strategies to promote your app and get your first users.
  • AI-Powered Growth: Use AI for authentic content creation and social media promotion to bring your app to market and capture your audience.
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