Build and ship a real app in 5 weekends — using plain English, not code.
Vibe Coding for Designers is a 5-weekend live program that turns a complete beginner into someone who ships.
You will build a real, publicly deployed product from scratch with a designed frontend, a live database, user authentication, and at least one third-party integration. Every session builds directly on the previous one, so by demo day you have a working link you can send to anyone.
The tools are many & you describe what you want in plain English; Ai writes the code. Your job is to direct it well, to have taste, to spot when it goes wrong, and to know how to fix it. The skills you learn in this course are not a workaround. They are how the fastest-moving builders at startups and studios work today.
10
Live Sessions
30
Hours of Building
7
Tools Mastered
1
Shipped Product
Designers who want to build
You have taste and vision. You sketch flows and design in Figma. Now you want to build and ship the thing you imagine — without depending on a developer.
Non-tech beginners with an idea
You have an idea for a product, a tool, or a side project but have always assumed you need to learn to code first. You do not. You need to learn to direct Claude.
Founders and product people
You want to prototype fast, validate ideas yourself, and speak the language of engineering without becoming an engineer. This course gives you that.
Career changers entering tech
You are transitioning into product, UX, or startup roles and want to prove — to yourself and to employers — that you can build as well as design.
Direct Claude Code fluently
Prompt Claude with precision to scaffold projects, style interfaces, connect databases, and fix errors — getting the right result faster every session.
Read and survive the terminal
Understand every type of terminal output — info, warning, error, stack trace — and use the paste-the-error-back loop to fix any break without panic.
Build a real design system in code
Define tokens, typography, spacing, and components, then direct Claude to apply them consistently across every page so the project looks like yours.
Connect a live database
Create Supabase tables from your PRD, write and read real data, and understand API keys, environment variables, and what never goes in the code.
Deploy and own continuous deployment
Push a project to GitHub, connect it to Vercel, and watch the live URL update automatically with every commit — the industry-standard workflow from day one.
Add user authentication
Wire email sign-up, login, and Google Sign-In to a live app. Understand sessions, tokens, protected routes, and row-level security — without building auth from scratch.
Integrate any external service
Use the 7-step integration pattern — find, key, docs, wire, test — to connect email (Resend), AI (Gemini), payments (Stripe), or any API with an internet connection.
Ship a complete, polished product
Finish with favicon, meta tags, error states, a custom 404, and a pre-launch checklist — then present the live URL on demo day.
Chief of Design at Commonsans
Designer who builds
Moves from Figma to a deployed product independently. Can prototype, validate, and ship features without waiting for engineering.
Product designer
Reads and writes basic code, understands the full stack, and collaborates with engineers with genuine shared vocabulary.
Founder / indie builder
Validates ideas by building them. Launches MVPs, integrates services, and iterates on a live product — all without a co-founder dependency.
UX engineer (entry level)
Bridges design and engineering. Can take a component from Figma to code and handle the frontend end of a handoff.
Certification
Learners who complete all 10 sessions and demo a live product on demo day receive a Designers Academy Certificate of Completion in Vibe Coding. The certificate names the specific stack built and is shareable as a LinkedIn credential.
Prerequisites
No coding experience required. You need a laptop (Mac or Windows) with atleast i3 11th Gen + 8GB RAm + 128GB SSD, a Google account, and a willingness to type in a terminal. A setup pack is sent before the first session with accounts to create and two pieces of software to install. An optional 30-minute orientation runs the evening before for anyone stuck.
Small batches
Capped at 8–10 learners so every student gets direct feedback from the educator.
Practitioner-led
Every educator is an active designer at a top product company — not just a teacher.
Career-first
Curriculum designed backwards from real job requirements so everything you learn is hireable.
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