Design Education Built by Designers for Designers
Who we are
We know (and feel) the struggle...
We've seen glaring gaps in design foundation
We understand the need for flexibility and affordability
We created a better way to learn design
Meet Our Founders
Stella Guan
Co-Founder and CEO
Stella Guan is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer, creative director, educator, speaker and entrepreneur creating beautiful, functional and storytelling-based design.
After a decade of successful career as a designer working with Fortune 500 companies, Stella took an entrepreneurial path and founded Path Unbound, a UI/UX design school providing customized educational programs for people who want to make design a career.
As an educator, she has worked as an adjunct faculty member at Fashion Institute of Technology and New York College of Technology and Lead Visual Design Instructor at General Assembly.
Stella is a multilingual immigrant from the big “rooster-shaped” country with 1.4 billion people (China). She considers herself a blunt New Yorker and “non-laidback” Angeleno. She is now a digital nomad living in between the US, Europe and Asia.
Sydney Ligouri
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Sydney brings over a decade of experience in the design industry and is an accomplished design educator. Sydney began her entrepreneurship journey nearly seven years ago as co-founder of creative mentorship platform RookieUp. She also taught—and later became Head of Design Education—at Shillington NYC, contributing to exceptional student results.
On the product side, Sydney has worked on multiple end-to-end product design initiatives in the tech education space. She plans to partner this experience with her deep understanding and insights into curriculum development and instruction training to bring an approachable and delightful experience to our comprehensive design education platform and course offerings.
