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Product Design Bootcamp

The UX Design Bootcamp is a free 12-week course teaching students the fundamentals of user research and design.

Timeframe
Fall semester 2021
Spring semester 2022
What
12 week course with weekly lectures and homework, a semester-long case study project, and interactive workshops.
Instructors
Simon Zhang (Spring ‘22)
Michelle Hou (Spring ‘22)
Kimberly Do (Fall ‘21)
Mira Dhingra (Fall ‘21)
Skills
Leadership
Collaboration
Visual Design
Storytelling / Presenting



What is Bits of Good?

Bits of Good is a student run organization at Georgia Tech (GT’s chapter of the national Hack4Impact organization) that educates and connects students with local-nonprofits to create powerful web apps.

The Design Bootcamp trains and equips students to later join Bits of Good as Product Designers where they can use design to serve non-profits✨


Why the design bootcamp?

After working as a BoG product designer, I noticed that many of my fellow GT students also wanted to become product designers but lacked formal UX design classes and resources. To help bridge this skill-gap, Mira, Kimberly, and I volunteered to lead a bootcamp covering the fundamentals of user research and design.

💡 Our goal was to help facilitate a pipeline of students equipped with design skills from the bootcamp into becoming Product Designers to work on Bits of Good’s non-profit projects.

View the syllabus ︎︎︎


My Impact

I am passionate about breaking down barriers to design education and building community—as a Design Bootcamp Instructor, I was able to merge both of these passions! My impact included:
  • Delivering lectures and interactive workshops
  • Providing feedback and critique on students’ work
  • Communicating with execs and advocating for my students
  • Organizing class bonding events (boba🧋 + protfolio jams)
  • Facilitating project showcases to increase students' visibility


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