Build, don't watch
Every session ends with a real artefact in your portfolio. Twelve sessions, twelve pieces of evidence.
Issue 01 — Online UI/UX School
Cohort 09 · Opens 12 Sept
Design Products people remember.
Twelve weeks. Eight chapters. One portfolio that gets you hired. Mimo is an online design school built like a comic — you don't watch it, you're in it.
Why Mimo
ChapterZero
Most schools teach you the software. We teach you the judgement that decides whether a product is deleted or kept.
Critique that stings, kindly
Live crits every week from designers currently shipping at product companies. You'll learn to defend a decision — or drop it.
Leave with a system brain
Tokens, variants, states, naming. You'll stop decorating screens and start designing the rules that generate them.
AI as a co-pilot
Direct the machine so it never directs you. Our assistant MO critiques at 3am, when your mentor is asleep.
The Learning Journey
Eight chapters. One arc.
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Chapter 01Week 1
Become a designer
Before the tool, the eye. Learn to see hierarchy, rhythm and intention in everything you already use.
“Wait — I can see it now.”
Chapter 02Week 2
Learn by building
You ship something in week one. Not a moodboard — a working screen.
Chapter 03Weeks 3–4
Master Figma
Speed is a design skill. Auto-layout, variants, variables and muscle memory until the tool disappears.
1,400 keystrokes saved / week.
Chapter 04Weeks 5–6
Think like a product designer
Every pixel is an argument. Learn to reason about trade-offs, metrics and the people paying for the thing.
“Why this, not that?”
Chapter 05Week 7
Use AI
Direct the machine. Ten variants in a minute — and the taste to kill nine.
Chapter 06Weeks 8–9
Build a portfolio
Three case studies that cannot be ignored. Written, art-directed and defended.
Three, not thirty.
Chapter 07Weeks 10–11
Get hired
Interview like a partner, not an applicant. Portfolio review, take-home strategy, salary language.
Offer received.
Chapter 08Week 12 → ∞
Become a mentor
Teach it and you own it. Top graduates come back to run crits — paid.
End of arc
You started as a viewer. You leave as a maker.
Twelve weeks later, the portfolio is real, the crit reflex is trained, and the job conversations are different.
Take the whole arc
Three Levels
Start anywhere. Finish dangerous.
Every level runs live, in small cohorts, with the same crit standard.
Level 01
Starter
Zero to a first interface you're not embarrassed by. Foundations of type, grid, colour and Figma.
- Design fundamentals & the designer's eye
- Figma from scratch to auto-layout
- One finished mobile product screen set
Level 02
Intermediate
From screens to systems. Components, variables, states and interaction craft — plus your first real case study.
- Design systems & token architecture
- Motion and micro-interaction
- Two portfolio-grade case studies
Level 03
Advanced
The whole arc. Product thinking, AI-assisted workflow, portfolio art direction and interview coaching until you sign.
- Product strategy & metric-led design
- AI co-pilot workflow with MO
- Three case studies + hiring sprint
The Curriculum
Twelve sessions.
Twelve sessions.
Zero filler.
Live, 2 hours each, recorded. Every session ships an artefact.
01
The designer's eye
02
Type as interface
03
Colour, contrast, calm
04
Grid & composition
05
Figma at speed
06
Components & variants
07
Design systems
08
Interaction & motion
09
Product thinking
10
AI-assisted design
11
Portfolio craft
12
The offer
Plus weekly live crits, office hours and a private critique channel that never sleeps.
See the full syllabus
AI Learning Assistant
Meet MO.
Your 3am crit partner. MO reads your file, argues with your spacing, generates ten alternatives and explains why eight of them are wrong.
Instant critDrop a frame, get a structured critique in 20 seconds.
Variant engineTen directions from one layout — you pick, MO explains.
Research digestCompetitor teardowns summarised into decisions.
Portfolio reviewCase study structure scored against real hiring bars.
“Your baseline grid is drifting 3px.”
“Try one type size fewer.”
“This CTA reads like a warning. Fix?”
Crit night. Bring receipts.
Your Mentors
“I don't want your best work. I want the reasoning that produced it.”
Loc HuynhLead Product Designer · 11 yrs · ADPList100: The Most Influential Mentors of 2026
Nine mentors. All still shipping. Each cohort is capped at 24 students so nobody hides in the chat.
GrabShopeeMomoZaloGoogleAtlassianCanva
Student Transformation
Day 01 vs Day 90
Day 01
Day 90
Left: week-one homework. Right: the same student's final case study, twelve weeks later. No redesign, no rescue — just training.
Drag the handle. Or use ← → keys.
0% finish the cohort
0% hired within 6 months
0students per cohort, max
0live crits per student
Voices
What they say after.
312 graduates across 9 cohorts. Here's a slice.
Pricing
Pay once. Keep it forever.
Starter
$290/ 4-week level
For the curious. Get the eye, get the tool, get one finished screen set.
- 4 live sessions + recordings
- 2 group crits
- Figma starter system
- Community access
The Full Arc
$690/ 12 weeks · or 3 × $240
All eight chapters. The version that changes what your CV looks like.
- 12 live sessions + all recordings
- 12 crits, 3 of them 1-on-1
- MO — AI assistant, unlimited
- 3 portfolio case studies
- Hiring sprint + interview coaching
Studio
$1,290/ seat · teams of 3+
For product teams who need one shared design language, fast.
- Everything in The Full Arc
- Private cohort on your product
- Design system audit
- Quarterly crit retainer
Two-week refund, no interrogation. Scholarships for 4 students each cohort.
FAQ
Fair questions.
Still stuck? Write to hello@mimo.school — a human answers within a day.
I've never opened Figma. Too late?
No. Starter assumes zero. Roughly 40% of each cohort has never drawn a rectangle on purpose. What matters more is whether you'll finish the homework.
How much time per week?
6 hours for Starter, 8 for Intermediate, 10 for Advanced — two of those live. Sessions are recorded, but crits are not repeatable, so protect that slot.
Is this just AI generating my work?
The opposite. MO is a sparring partner, not a ghostwriter. Anything MO produces gets torn apart in crit like everything else. You'll leave better at judging output, which is the skill that survives.
Will I actually get hired?
71% of Advanced graduates were hired or freelancing full-time within six months. We can't promise an offer — we can promise your portfolio, interview answers and salary conversation will be unrecognisable.
What if I fall behind?
You can pause once and rejoin the next cohort free. Life happens; we'd rather you finish late than quit.
Do I need a portfolio to apply?
For Starter and Intermediate, no. For Advanced we'll ask to see two pieces of work — anything, including things you think are bad. We're reading the reasoning, not the polish.
Final Panel
StartChapter 01 opens 12 September
24 seats. Nine mentors. One arc that ends with a portfolio you'd defend in any room.
Applications close 05 Sept · No prior experience required