the eight-week koalia program
one syllabus, one instructor, three audience tracks. taught entirely by Julien Hosri — designer + engineer, co-founder of Maxiphy (the UX-driven software company whose product work seeds every case study in the koalia syllabus). the curriculum is the same for every track — engineers, designers, and founders — and the differences are in the deliverables, peer cohort, and which weeks pull hardest. start here if you're trying to decide which track fits you.
hand → brain → proof
four weeks of craft, three of thinking, one of shipping.
- handwk 01 → 04figma fluency · ui kit · design system · interactive proto
- brainwk 05 → 07heuristics + accessibility · research + IA · AI workflows
- proofwk 08jury-ready case study · demo day with Julien + 2 surprise guests
for the full week-by-week breakdown, see the eight-week curriculum.
three audience tracks
- track · engineersengineers + vibe coders.
you ship with Cursor, v0, Lovable, Figma Make — and you want the interfaces to feel like real product. the design skills the AI tools assume you already have.
open the track → - track · designers · coming nextgraphic + brand designers.
you can compose a page in InDesign with your eyes closed but product design — IA, prototyping, accessibility, design systems — is a different muscle.
- track · founders · coming nextfounders.
you don't want to become a designer. you want the taste to hire one well and judge what they ship. eight weeks of practical product-design literacy.
six fundamentals across every track
- live, instructor-taught — Julien teaches every session, no TAs.
- real product behind every example — case studies come from Maxiphy, the UX-driven software company Julien co-founded and ships at every week.
- small cohort — 20 seats per pilot, capped for grading quality.
- real artifacts — every week ships a portfolio-grade deliverable.
- AI workflows in the syllabus — week 7 is explicitly Cursor + v0 + Figma Make.
- single jury demo day at week 8 — Julien plus two surprise industry guests.
- flat tuition — paid in two installments via Whish Money, no pay-if-hired model.