Research to prototype
Figma end to end — research, wireframes, design systems, prototypes and usability testing, finishing with a case study and a developer handoff a real team could build from.
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Course overview
The UI/UX design course in Ludhiana at techcadd covers the whole process — research, user flows, wireframes, Figma interfaces, prototyping, design systems, usability testing and handover to developers — because a screen that looks good and cannot be used is not design.
UI/UX is the best-paid design discipline in India and the one with the clearest route out of a small city, because the work is judged entirely on case studies and almost all of it can be done remotely. It is also the design course with the most competition, which is why this one spends as much time on reasoning as on visuals.
You work through user research and problem framing, information architecture and flows, wireframing, visual design in Figma, component libraries and design systems, interactive prototyping, usability testing with real people, and developer handover. Each project is written up as a case study — the problem, what you tried, what testing showed, what changed — because that write-up is what a hiring designer reads first.
No coding is required, though the handover module will teach you enough about how interfaces are built to design things that can actually be made.
Straight after 12th
Of everything in the After 12th list, this is the course whose ceiling is least limited by being in Ludhiana. The work is remote by default and judged on case studies.
Any stream, no coding, no drawing. The strongest students in a typical batch come from commerce and arts as often as from science — the discipline is about noticing why something is confusing, which is not a technical instinct.
Four to six months, so it runs comfortably alongside a first- or second-year degree at GNDEC, PAU, SCD Government College, Khalsa College, Government College for Girls, Ramgarhia, PCTE and Gulzar Group. Students already doing a BCA or B.Tech get the most out of it, because they leave able to design what they can also help build.
₹18,000 to ₹30,000 a month is a realistic first product-design offer for a strong portfolio, and remote and freelance rates run higher. This is the highest starting range on this page, and the portfolio requirement is correspondingly stricter.
Screens somebody else specified, component libraries, and a lot of small fixes. Ask why at every opportunity — the designers who move quickly are the ones who understood the product decision behind the ticket.
Four case studies with real testing in them will do more for you than any certificate on this page. That is the whole design of this course.
Curriculum
4 modules and 24 topics across 4–6 months, in the order they are taught. Each one closes with something that works before the next one opens.
Finding out what to build before drawing anything — users, tasks, and the structure that follows.
Topics covered
Tools & libraries
You finish with
A research summary and a task flow that justifies every screen you are about to design.
Low fidelity first, so structure and flow are settled before visual design starts.
Topics covered
Tools & libraries
You finish with
A clickable low-fidelity prototype covering the full happy path and its edge cases.
Type, colour and spacing turned into a component library rather than one-off screens.
Topics covered
Tools & libraries
You finish with
A design system with components, variants and tokens driving a set of finished screens.
Proving the design works, then packaging it so a developer and an interviewer both understand it.
Topics covered
Tools & libraries
You finish with
A tested, revised product design with a written case study and a handoff file.
Find your pace
The UI/UX Design syllabus in the order you meet it, and what you are able to do by the end of each stretch of it. Every row is a capability, not a topic you sat through.
| Capability | Foundations | Applied | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|
| User interviewsUX Research & Structure | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| PersonasUX Research & Structure | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| User journeysUX Research & Structure | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Information architectureUX Research & Structure | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Task flowsUX Research & Structure | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Competitive auditUX Research & Structure | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Low-fi wireframesWireframes & Interaction | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Layout gridsWireframes & Interaction | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Auto layoutWireframes & Interaction | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Navigation patternsWireframes & Interaction | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| States & edge casesWireframes & Interaction | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Clickable prototypeWireframes & Interaction | Covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Type & colour scalesVisual Design & Systems | Not yet covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Components & variantsVisual Design & Systems | Not yet covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Design tokensVisual Design & Systems | Not yet covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Accessibility & contrastVisual Design & Systems | Not yet covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Dark modeVisual Design & Systems | Not yet covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Responsive layoutVisual Design & Systems | Not yet covered in Foundations | Covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Usability testingTesting, Handoff & Case Study | Not yet covered in Foundations | Not yet covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Iteration from findingsTesting, Handoff & Case Study | Not yet covered in Foundations | Not yet covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Dev Mode handoffTesting, Handoff & Case Study | Not yet covered in Foundations | Not yet covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Specs & redlinesTesting, Handoff & Case Study | Not yet covered in Foundations | Not yet covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| Case study writingTesting, Handoff & Case Study | Not yet covered in Foundations | Not yet covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
| PortfolioTesting, Handoff & Case Study | Not yet covered in Foundations | Not yet covered in Applied | Covered in Professional |
The full programme runs 4–6 months. Where you finish is a question of pace rather than of syllabus — everyone covers all of it.
The case for it
Every reviewer asks the same question about every screen: why is it like that. The case-study discipline in this course exists so that you always have an answer.
You learn UI/UX Design the way it is used in production, with the workflow, tooling and standards a working team expects. Nothing in the syllabus exists only to fill hours.
Sessions are hands-on. You do every example, break it, and fix it. Each module closes with a lab task that has to work before you move on.
Five shipped finished projects — the kind of work an interviewer can open, click through and question you on.
A structured final phase: portfolio review, profile cleanup, aptitude and role-specific practice, mock interviews and placement support.
Why this course
Six things we hold ourselves to for every UI/UX Design batch that starts in Ludhiana.
Syllabus built around what UI/UX Design teams actually ship — no filler modules, no theory that never reaches your hands.
Every concept lands in the tool the same day. You work in UI/UX Design during each class, not just in your notes.
Build with real requirements, real data and real problems — from the first task to a finished, reviewable deliverable.
Trainers who work with UI/UX Design daily review your work, your logic and your approach line by line.
Resume, portfolio, aptitude rounds and interview practice built into the last phase of the course.
Interview referrals, mock rounds and continued doubt support after the course ends.
Who can join
School leavers heading towards product design, students in a BCA or B.Tech who want the design half, and graphic designers moving from print into screens. No stream requirement, no coding.
You have finished school and want a skill that pays before a degree does. The first module assumes you have never opened UI/UX Design in your life.
No background neededBCA, B.Tech, B.Sc, BBA, B.Com — any stream. You learn UI/UX Design alongside your degree and finish with projects your syllabus was never going to give you.
Weekend batchesYou are months away from interviews and need work to show, not marks to quote. The final phase is portfolio, mock rounds and referrals.
Placement supportYou already have a job and want UI/UX Design on top of it. Evening and weekend batches exist for exactly this, and the project work is yours to schedule.
Evening batchesYou are coming from a different field entirely — operations, teaching, accounts, sales. Every module starts from why, not from jargon.
Start from zeroYou want to do this work yourself instead of paying for it. You leave able to build, run and judge UI/UX Design work on your own terms.
Practical onlyNot sure which of these you are, or whether the timing works around what you already do? That is exactly what the call is for. Ask about UI/UX Design
Technology ecosystem
UI/UX Design is the centre. These are the tools you use around it in a working team.
Hands-on projects
Each one lands in your portfolio with the working files, the process and something a reviewer can open.
Capstone project
One product taken the whole way: user interviews and a journey map, task flows, a low-fidelity prototype, a full design system with components and tokens, high-fidelity responsive screens in light and dark, a round of usability testing with the revisions it produced, and a Dev Mode handoff with specs.
Certification
A techcadd UI/UX certificate and an internship letter for the live-brief phase, behind four written-up case studies — which is the portfolio format every product team in India actually asks for.
Issued in your name on completion of the UI/UX Design syllabus, with a reference number an employer can verify with us.
A separate certificate for the capstone you submit, naming the project so the work is attached to the credential.
Students who complete the live-project phase receive an internship letter covering the duration and the work delivered.
Every file, repository and deployed link stays yours — the part of the credential a reviewer can actually open.
techcadd has been training in Ludhiana since 2007. The certificate carries that record; the UI/UX Design work you did carries the rest.
This is to certify that
has successfully completed the UI/UX Design programme
UI/UX Design Course with Figma
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for project work delivered under supervision in Ludhiana
UI/UX Design capstone
Where it takes you
The route from your first module to the roles UI/UX Design opens — and the work that has to exist at each step.
Design screens and systems for web and mobile products.
Research, structure and test the experience behind the screens.
Own a feature from problem through to shipped interface.
Build and maintain the component library a team designs from.
Take app and website design work directly from clients.
Run studies that tell a product team what to build next.
Salary outlook
The best-paid design track we teach, and the one least dependent on where you live. Very little of this hiring happens in Ludhiana itself and almost none of it needs to.
| Role | Ludhiana & Punjab | Delhi NCR & Bengaluru | Remote & freelance |
|---|---|---|---|
| UI DesignerEntry | ₹2.4–4.5 LPA | ₹4–9 LPA | ₹20k–70k / project |
| UX DesignerEntry to mid | ₹3.0–5.5 LPA | ₹5–12 LPA | ₹30k–1L / project |
| Product DesignerEntry to mid | ₹3.6–6.5 LPA | ₹6–14 LPA | ₹40k–1.4L / project |
| Senior / Lead DesignerMid (3–5 yrs) | ₹6–11 LPA | ₹12–24 LPA | ₹1L–3L / project |
Ranges are indicative, drawn from what our own students report and from openings we see through the placement cell. Actual offers depend on your portfolio, the interview and the company — nobody can promise you a number, and we do not.
UI designer, UX designer, product designer, design systems designer and UX researcher. Product designer — where one person owns research through to interface — is the most common title in Indian startups and the one this course is aimed at.
Among the fastest of any design field. Designers who can defend decisions with research and testing move to senior roles in three to four years, because that skill is much rarer than visual ability.
Almost completely. Product design is reviewed on a portfolio site and conducted over calls and Figma. This is the design course where a Ludhiana address genuinely stops being relevant.
Startups and software firms in Mohali, Chandigarh and NCR, agencies in Ludhiana building client products, e-commerce and D2C brands, ed-tech and healthcare platforms, and the remote and international market that takes most of our stronger students.
The case studies are strong evidence for a design-school or HCI application, and for any overseas programme that assesses on portfolio rather than marks.
Future scope
A course ends; the field does not. Here is the honest version of what the next few years look like for UI/UX Design — where the roles go, and what is shifting underneath them while you learn.
Entry roles such as UI Designer open as soon as you have projects that run. At this stage nobody is asking about your marks — they are asking you to walk through something you built.
The generalists plateau; the specialists do not. Depth in one part of UI/UX Design — the part your first job leans on hardest — is what moves you towards ux designer work.
Architecture, standards, hiring and mentoring. The technical skill is assumed by now; what you are paid for is judgement, and judgement only comes from having shipped things that mattered.
Teams expect UI/UX Design work to be done alongside AI tooling. It raises the floor on output and raises the bar on what counts as a junior — which is exactly why the fundamentals in this course are taught the hard way.
What used to be one narrow role now touches data, deployment and the product decision behind it. Every extra layer of UI/UX Design you understand is another kind of room you get invited into.
Remote and hybrid hiring means Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Chandigarh candidates now compete for the same roles as Bengaluru ones. Location has stopped being the ceiling it used to be.
Hiring has moved to portfolios, take-home tasks and live problem solving. A certificate opens a shortlist; work that runs is what gets you through the round after it.
Sectors hiring for this skill set
The comparison
Every institute in Ludhiana claims industry training and placement support. These are the differences you can actually check on a demo visit — ask any of them of anyone, including us.
| What to ask about | techcadd | Typical institute |
|---|---|---|
| Who teaches | Trainers who still do UI/UX Design work outside the classroom | Full-time faculty teaching from a fixed deck |
| 1-on-1 classes | One-to-one teaching available on every course — the pace is yours, and your work is looked at by name | One group class moving at one pace, whoever that pace happens to suit |
| Project work | 5 real projects plus a capstone you deploy and defend | Guided exercises copied from the board |
| Curriculum | Reviewed every batch against what working teams ship | Updated when the printed syllabus is reprinted |
| How a module ends | A lab task that has to run before you move on | Notes to revise before an exam |
| Doubt support | Trainer sits with your code; open lab hours between classes | Ask at the end of class if there is time left |
| What you leave with | Completion certificate, project certificate, internship letter — all verifiable | One printed certificate |
| After the course | Portfolio review, mock interviews, referrals, continued doubt support | The course ends and so does the contact |
Written about the market, not about any particular institute in it. Visit two or three, sit through a demo class at each, and ask all eight of these questions — that is the only version of this table worth trusting.
Student Voices
Feedback from students who completed the UI/UX Design programme at techcadd Ludhiana.
Simranjeet Kaur
UI/UX Design / B.Sc. IT graduate
I joined with no background in this. By the third month I was building UI/UX Design work on my own, and the project reviews are where I actually learnt to do it properly.
Harman Sethi
UI/UX Design / Now working as an intern in the field
The classes are practical. Every session ends with a task that has to work, so you cannot fake understanding. That habit helped me most in interviews.
Ankit Verma
UI/UX Design / BCA final year
Doubt support was the difference for me. My trainer sat with my work, found the mistake and made me fix it myself instead of handing over the answer.
Navjot Singh
UI/UX Design / Career switch from operations
I came for the skill and left with a portfolio — projects I could actually demo on a call, not a certificate I had to explain.
Simranjeet Kaur
UI/UX Design / B.Sc. IT graduate
I joined with no background in this. By the third month I was building UI/UX Design work on my own, and the project reviews are where I actually learnt to do it properly.
Harman Sethi
UI/UX Design / Now working as an intern in the field
The classes are practical. Every session ends with a task that has to work, so you cannot fake understanding. That habit helped me most in interviews.
Ankit Verma
UI/UX Design / BCA final year
Doubt support was the difference for me. My trainer sat with my work, found the mistake and made me fix it myself instead of handing over the answer.
Navjot Singh
UI/UX Design / Career switch from operations
I came for the skill and left with a portfolio — projects I could actually demo on a call, not a certificate I had to explain.
Simranjeet Kaur
UI/UX Design / B.Sc. IT graduate
I joined with no background in this. By the third month I was building UI/UX Design work on my own, and the project reviews are where I actually learnt to do it properly.
Harman Sethi
UI/UX Design / Now working as an intern in the field
The classes are practical. Every session ends with a task that has to work, so you cannot fake understanding. That habit helped me most in interviews.
Ankit Verma
UI/UX Design / BCA final year
Doubt support was the difference for me. My trainer sat with my work, found the mistake and made me fix it myself instead of handing over the answer.
Navjot Singh
UI/UX Design / Career switch from operations
I came for the skill and left with a portfolio — projects I could actually demo on a call, not a certificate I had to explain.
Real, unedited feedback from techcadd learners on Google.
Frequently asked questions
The 12 things people ask most often about the UI/UX Design course at techcadd Ludhiana.
Neither. The handover module teaches enough about how interfaces are built to keep your designs buildable, but you will not be writing code, and there is no drawing component at all.
4–6 months across weekday, evening and weekend batches. The last phase is a live brief with usability testing, which is where the fourth case study comes from.
Figma throughout — interface design, components, auto layout, prototyping and handover — plus FigJam for research and flows, and a usability testing setup you run with real participants rather than classmates.
It pays better and is more remote-friendly; graphic design earns locally sooner and has a lower entry bar. If you like solving problems more than making things beautiful, take UI/UX. Both are legitimate answers and a counsellor will not push you either way.
It is the most realistic course here for that, because portfolios and calls are the whole hiring process. It is not automatic — it takes case studies with real research in them, which is exactly what the course is built to produce.
The complete UI/UX Design programme runs for 4–6 months depending on the batch you choose. Weekday, weekend and fast-track options are available, along with shorter modules for students who only need the fundamentals.
Students after 12th, graphic designers moving into product, and developers who want to design the screens they build.
None. Figma is free and browser-based, and the course starts from a blank file.
Figma, FigJam, Auto Layout, Components, Variants, Dev Mode, WCAG and Prototyping — plus the day-to-day tooling and workflow that surrounds them in a real team.
Yes. Each module closes with a lab project, and the course ends with a capstone you can put on your portfolio and defend in an interview.
Placement support includes resume and portfolio review, aptitude and role-specific practice, mock interviews and interview referrals through our hiring network.
Yes. You receive a techcadd UI/UX Design completion certificate, and a separate project certificate for the capstone you submit.
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