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UI Design
Seminars for
Serious Learners

Hedlako offers structured online seminars on user interface design — not recorded tutorials, but live sessions built around discussion, critique, and deliberate practice. Each programme focuses on a specific area of the discipline, from visual hierarchy and type systems to interaction modelling and accessibility auditing.

Participants work through real material, not invented exercises.

12+ Active Programmes
214 Participants Globally
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Current Seminar Programmes

Each seminar below covers a distinct area of UI design practice. They are independent, so participants can join based on current priorities rather than following a fixed sequence. Session size is intentionally limited to allow proper discussion.

Visual systems and layout structures in UI design
Foundation

Visual Systems and Layout Structure

Covers spacing logic, grid construction, and typographic hierarchy. Participants work directly with layout files and identify structural failures in real product screenshots during critique rounds.

6 sessions Up to 14 participants
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Interaction design and state modelling seminar
Interaction

Interaction Patterns and State Modelling

Focuses on how interfaces communicate change — loading states, transitions, error handling, and feedback timing. Participants map interaction flows from live products and rebuild them with documented rationale.

8 sessions Up to 12 participants
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Accessibility and inclusive design seminar
Accessibility

Accessible Design and WCAG in Practice

Goes beyond contrast ratios. Participants audit real interfaces against WCAG 2.2 criteria, discuss remediation strategies, and rebuild components that fail keyboard or screen reader testing.

5 sessions Up to 16 participants
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How the seminars are structured

Critique session during a UI design seminar

Live critique as the main learning mechanism

Passive watching does not produce design judgment. Hedlako sessions are structured around critique — each participant brings work or a reference, the group analyses it against the session's topic criteria, and the instructor frames the discussion without overriding it.

Participants consistently report that critique rounds are where the actual understanding happens.

"You start noticing things in interfaces you walk past every day — menus that misfired, buttons that lack affordance, grids that collapse under real content."
Design documentation and reference materials

Reference material that stays useful after the session

Each seminar is accompanied by annotated reference files — not slides, but working documents with annotated examples, decision frameworks, and sourced reading lists. They are built during sessions and updated based on discussion outcomes, which means they reflect actual questions participants raised rather than a scripted outline.

The material covers specific scenarios: designing for variable content, handling multi-language layouts, building component states that hold up under edge cases.

Common questions before enrolling

If something below does not cover your situation, the quickest way to get an answer is direct contact. Hedlako has been operating since 2020 and has gone through enough intake cycles to have a clear, honest answer for most scenarios.

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What prior knowledge do participants need?
No formal design education is required. A basic familiarity with digital products helps, but the seminars are structured to build understanding progressively — from foundational visual principles through to advanced interaction design patterns. Participants with backgrounds in development, product management, and content work have all completed programmes without prior design training.
How are sessions delivered and what is the format?
Sessions run live over video with structured discussion periods. Each seminar includes a focused topic presentation, a working segment where participants apply concepts to provided or personal material, and a peer critique round. Sessions typically run 90 to 120 minutes depending on the programme.
Can participants from outside Ukraine attend?
Yes. Hedlako operates as a transnational platform with participants from across Europe, Central Asia, and beyond. All sessions are conducted in English and scheduled to accommodate multiple time zones. There are no citizenship or residency restrictions on enrolment.
Is there support between sessions?
Participants have access to a shared workspace for asynchronous discussion, assignment review, and resource sharing between live sessions. Instructors respond to written questions on a scheduled basis — typically within 48 hours on weekdays.
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I joined the interaction patterns seminar thinking it would cover animation timings and micro-interactions. It turned out to be a thorough look at how interfaces communicate system state — loading, errors, empty states, confirmation flows. Three months later I still use the framework we built in session four.

Oleksandr Hrytsenko, product designer

Oleksandr Hrytsenko

Product Designer, Berlin

Ready to look at UI design more carefully?

The learning programme page has full session outlines, schedule information, and enrolment details for all active seminars. If you have specific questions about fit or format, the contact page is the right place to start.

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