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What is
Web design?
Web design is a course for teenagers aged 13-21 on the basics of designing user-friendly interfaces for mobile applications and designing effective and practical sites that can impress the user and give the desired result. The training is based on the project approach: from user map/target audience to hi-fi (working) prototype
Benefits
For teenagers only
We are experts in teaching 13-19 year-olds. For many years we accumulated experience of teenage features to take it into account for educational programs and approaches. In dealing with parents, we take the teenager’s side
Profession relevancy
Web designer is one of the most demanded professions in the field of IT in a rapidly growing market
How to find the first job
We systematically work on the employment of our graduates aged 18+. We cooperate with IT and design companies that are ready to hire our graduates for internships or immediately for work, provide recommendations, and arrange interviews
Educational results
In case of successful completion of the course, the teenager develops such skills:
Level Beginner
- Professional skills (Hard skills):
- the first portfolio of 4+ projects on behance.com
- basic illustrator skills
- customer research and work with persona (online and offline)
- project management system in Trello
- individual project: web site or mobile app UX/UI design
- prototyping and development of scenarios in Figma and InVision
- active work with referral solutions on Behance and Dribble
- creation of hi-fi prototypes
- testing: offline and online
- individual and team work on technical tasks from the customer in the established time frame
Program created / verified
Olga Shevchenko
Eliakh Semyonov
PDFfiller
Khrystya Mytsak
GTM - Global Tech Makers
Vyacheslav Shkolniy
Cogniance
Zhenya Skryabina
Luxoft
Oleksander Valius
Eleks
Ustym Ganulyak
EPAM, Qubstudio, Thomson Reuters, Visiquate, Schlumberger, Google CDMX,Clarivate Analytics, Bosch, ThingWorx, Harbor Health
Oleksandra Lukavetskya
WebIT.Agency
Format
Training in groups
- Duration, level Beginner — 6 months (24 weeks/lessons)
- Studying in a group with a web design expert as a mentor — web design specialist, level Middle+; a group of teenagers and study manager support
- Tasks for midweek work: video tutorial (3-5 videos per week), tests to it, practical tasks, additional materials (industry articles, etc.). Checking tasks by the mentor. Communication in the chat
- Group online lessons with a hard skills mentor on weekends (Saturday or Sunday, 2 hours, online in zoom/google meet)
- Feedback for parents: 1. once a month the status of training in the program from the study manager 2. once every three months — feedback from the mentor
Works by our teenagers
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Results
Profession
The IT industry values knowledge and experience. Web design graduate gets:
- Career service, preparation for entering a design faculty at a university (after level Beginner)
- Ability to work on Junior design specialist level (after level Beginner)
- Professional portfolio of individual and team projects
- Upgrade Certificate
The first job
- The level Beginner provides the Junior specialist base knowledge and understanding of further development
- The training program consists of team projects and their pitches for industry experts and HR managers. Ampli has a career service for finding internships and first jobs for our graduates
Community
We create a community of teenagers and industry experts.
- Project-based education = working in teams on own/team commercial and social projects. Management experience already in adolescence
- Ampli Talks webinars and social events for teenagers. Speeches by experts from IT, design, and business