Comprehensive Design Education For Creative Career Success

Learn UX/UI, visual, and brand design one-on-one with our expert instructors and launch your design career within six months.

Student Success

Our graduates now work at a wide variety of industries and high-impact companies, including Twitter, Pinterest, Microsoft and more.

$100K

Average Starting Salary

$30K

Average Salary Increase

92%

Employed Within 6 Months

5.0

Course Report Ratings

Our Programs

Our years of instructional experience and research shines in how we structure our program and hire our instructors. It makes all the difference.

School of Design

Now Enolling

Includes Portfolio School

School of UI/UX Design

Are you curious about how digital products are created? Are you research-driven, highly methodical, with sharp attention-to-detail? Learn how to become a UX/UI Designer and launch your career in tech in just six months.

Now Enolling

Includes Portfolio School

School of Visual Design

Have you always been excited to create beautiful graphics? Are you excited by visual storytelling, problem-solving, or branding? Learn how to become a Visual Designer and launch your creative career in just six months.

Portfolio School

Now Enolling

For Students with At Least 3 Portfolio Projects

Portfolio Express

Did you study design in college or recently completed a bootcamp? Feeling less than confident in your current portfolio? With Portfolio Express, you can kickstart your design career with a refined portfolio built to make you stand out in just two months.

Now Enolling

For Students Proficient In Design With No Projects

Portfolio Kickstart

Are you already proficient in design but with no high-quality, complete projects? With Portfolio Kickstart, you can build 4 full-length portfolio projects and receive customized career coaching to land your dream design job in just three months.

Cohorts

Our courses run in cohorts four times a year and deadlines apply to all programs

Now Enrolling

Fall Cohort '23

Apply by September 10th, 2023 (regular deadline) to begin our Fall 2023 cohort. Late deadline: September 22, 2023

Winter Cohort '23

Apply by December 10th, 2023 to begin our Winter 2023 cohort.

Spring Cohort '24

Apply by March 10th, 2024 to begin our Spring 2024 cohort.

Summer Cohort '24

Apply by June 9th, 2024 to begin our Summer 2024 cohort.

Industry-Driven Curriculum

Our core mission at Path Unbound is to provide relevant, industry-driven curriculum to set our students up for career success after course completion. Our curriculum is crafted by experienced design professionals to reflect the most current best-practices and industry expectations.

In addition to this, we aim to create a flexible experience for our students—therefore we always conduct intake interviews in order to best understand individual goals and suggest curriculum suggestions to suit everyone’s desired path.

Courses Built for Any Schedule

Our courses are flexi-paced, while means you can complete your studies in a timeframe that works for you, while still receiving structure and guidance. Our students are able to gain a design education while also keeping up with the obligations in their lives like jobs, families, and additional studies.

Multimedia Learning Interface

Path Unbound provides a clean, contemporary multimedia learning interface that accommodates different learning styles. Throughout the course our students can expect video lectures, audio lectures, and written content.

Stay tuned for our soon-to-be-launched live sessions.

Our Expert Instructors

Our team of instructors are great at what they do and teach well, too

Nina Shahriaree

UI/UX & Visual Designer

Aneri Patel

Lead visual designer

Sam Jacobs

Director of Design

Silvia Script

Senior UI/UX Design Lead

Ways Path Unbound is Different

1

Women-Founded​

Are you aware that less than 1% of design schools are founded by women? We are proudly diversifying design education and championing under-represented voices.

2

Trained Instructors​

Our instructors are professional, working designers with aspirational portfolios. We expertly-vet and train each one to ensure top-quality instruction for all our courses.

3

Designer-Founded​

Are you aware that less than 3% of design schools are founded by designers? We have lived the life of working designers and understand the ins and outs intimately.

4

Comprehensive​

Most bootcamps and courses are limited in their scope, and don’t include comprehensive visual design foundational approaches. We’re teaching you it all—soup to nuts!

5

Individualized​

We are provide individualized experiences for our students because we know everyone has unique ambitions and career goals. Students are never just a number to us.

6

Visual-Focused

We know how important a strong understanding of visual aesthetics is for any professional designer worth their salt. That’s why ‘good taste’ is a corner-stone of what we do.

7

Portfolio-Obsessed​

We are focused on providing individualized experiences for our students because we know everyone has unique ambitions and career goals.

8

Real Client Projects

We pair students up with real clients for a real-world project. Get hands-on experience with real requests, project specifications, and deadlines.

Student Work and Success Stories

Take a look at some of the high-quality designs our students have produced and the stories behind them. By learning design at Path Unbound, you can expect results on this level and beyond.

Sydney Hartman

School of Visual Design

Sydney Hartman is an up-and-coming designer who secured her first design job before she even graduated from her School of Visual Design program from Path Unbound! Sydney came from a retail background with experience in styling and administrative work. Half way through her program at Path Unbound, Sydney received her very first full-time design job!

Carina Venet

Portfolio School

Evleen Huang

Portfolio School

Soha
Lachini

Portfolio School

Kristina Bozhanova

Portfolio School

Michael
Pierce

Portfolio School

Robin
Lee

Portfolio School

Scroll to Top

Fall 2023 cohort is closed. Now accepting applications for Winter 2023!

Which Course Is Right For Me?

It can be overwhelming trying to decide, so we made it easy for you.