Alumni
Meet graduates of the Fountain Institute
Alumni Testimonials ● Course Journals ● Alumni Talks
We focus on high-quality online learning, and the outcomes speak for themselves.
Passive online courses have a 15% graduation rate, with some as low as 3%! [source]
96%
Graduation Rate
9.6
Avg. Course Rating
237
Advanced Alumni
Miro •
Babbel •
Delivery Hero •
Rewe •
Zalando •
Cisco •
Nestlé •
Rainforest Alliance •
Astra Zeneca •
Issuu •
Yelp •
Goodnotes •
Porsche Digital •
E.ON •
Vinted •
Miro • Babbel • Delivery Hero • Rewe • Zalando • Cisco • Nestlé • Rainforest Alliance • Astra Zeneca • Issuu • Yelp • Goodnotes • Porsche Digital • E.ON • Vinted •
Alumni Testimonials
The course was a six weeks long insightful, inspiring and fun journey! The combination of valuable input, in-depth feedback and hands-on workshops gave me a lot of room to explore, think and grow. 10/10 recommend! 👏
Kira Tschierschke
Freelance UX Strategy, User Research & Service Design
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“The classes were engaging and fun, with super useful material and great assignments to practice!”
Diana Leveryte
Product Designer at Klaveness Digital
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"I was really impressed by the way this course was structured and run. The instructors were welcoming and led us through a series of activities that enabled the cohort to develop camaraderie and be supportive with each other. I also learned many great concepts and new ideas about how to keep workshops engaging, inclusive, and productive. I can't wait to put this all into action! Thanks to Hannah and the Fountain Institute!”
Janine Kubert
Senior Design Manager at Teladoc Health
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“This live course was one of the most valuable investments in my design career. I was applying what we practiced on a daily basis in parallel with the course, which noticeably brought more impact to my work and team. As the Lead Product Designer at Vitally, it’s critical I invest not only in my self, but opportunities to improve our design operations and practices. Continuous research has made an often time consuming endeavor extremely repeatable, scalable, and valuable for us.”
Ryan Purdy
Lead Product Designer at Vitally
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“I found the UX strategy course the perfect mix between hands-on practice and theory to deepen your knowledge. The live classes were engaging, fun and helped me apply the theory we learned. The course was valuable to me, as I could immediately apply what I've learned in my actual job.”
Maureen Herben
Senior Product Designer at Zalando
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“The Fountain Institute's course format provides a rich and engaging environment to learn very practical concepts and skills. And the opportunity to practice the skills learned throughout the course in a final demo was very valuable!”
Melissa McLean
Principal Designer & Strategist
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“Knowing The Fountain Institute has re-energized me on my goals of ever-learning about theory and practice of design. They integrate new design thinking and proven methods into compact, easy to follow and innovative workshops experiences like no other in the market. It's been fun learning with co-designers in real time - and for real!”
Jerome Bertrand
UX designer, coach, photographer
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“Designing Product Experiments was amazing. I prefer your course over NNG ones to be honest. I literally learned stuff. Thank you so much 🙂”
Emre Ozocal
UX/Product Designer at Unique President
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“I took part in the ‘UX Strategy’ course which was truly a great investment of my time and money. The knowledge I gained was tremendous while at the same time it wasn’t overwhelming. The live workshops weren’t tiresome and I managed to stay energized thanks to Hannah’s great facilitation skills. Additionally, I had the opportunity to work on real context from my environment and I got a relevant feedback. Overall, I think the course was fantastic! Hannah and Jeff smashed the way how they led the cohort. I can strongly recommend the all courses from the Fountain Institute 😊”
Aneta Kmiecik
UX Designer at EcoOnline Global
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“I very much enjoyed the CUXR course, and gained a lot of new relevant knowledge. I especially liked how interactive and hands-on the course was, enabling collaboration and discussions in the class. Hanna, Jeff & Nairi are great facilitators and teachers, enabling good discussions by asking challenging questions, and also making the course a fun journey! The assignments made us apply the learnings directly in our work context, which was great.”
Jenny Lermander
UX Designer & Researcher at Silberplus
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“I feel that I am in very competent hands with you. I regularly get the most updated information and experience in the UX field from you. That's a great feeling.”
Shida (Ardehali) Reher
User Experience Designer at AstraZeneca
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“It's a very valuable class. I already started using what I learned with my PM and designers and the results are awesome!”
Bassma Hefni
Product Designer at Delivery Hero
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"The course is short, jam-packed, thorough deep-dive into parts of design that you don't typically get to explore day-to-day, plus it's all no-nonsense and honest. Each week in itself is enough to give you enough content to learn, explore, and improve your non-design skills as a designer. Hannah and Jeff are really approachable, knowledgeable, and give you intentional, thoughtful insights and feedback. I would definitely recommend it. Great way to up-skill and refresh the way you approach your design career and day-to-day."
Nairi Nasrallah
UX Researcher at EGYM
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“I've tried to learn UX research many times, but without specific projects to try to work through and someone to give me feedback. The CUXR course was impactful because it breaks things down into bite-sized pieces with well explanatory steps to follow during the UXR process. Thanks to Hannah and Jeff, for constantly giving constructive feedback and offering a lot of advice in and out of the course. I have learned and taken so much from each of the weekly workshop sessions, which I can bring into my company. I also gained the confidence to share my research and work with my team in a way that will convince them of the value of my findings and help our products advance. I highly recommend the Advanced UX Design course!”
Oluwabukunmi Agbetunsin
Product Designer at Mantium
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“I really feel that I learnt more in the 6 weeks with Hannah & Jeff than I did during 3 years at University. Having come from a background that was very UI focused I sometimes doubted my abilities as a UX Designer. I now feel that I can conduct, organise and analyse research with confidence and have the knowledge to present insights I gather with impact to stakeholders. I highly recommend the Advanced UX Design course!”
Hannah Winter
UX Designer at Cambridge University Press
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“Being the co-founder of an ed-tech startup focusing on learning transfer, I don't say this lightly: Hannah and Jeff's course is one of the most well-designed learning experiences I've ever come across. Besides being incredibly skilled designers, they manage to create a warm and forgiving environment where mistakes are encouraged and constructive feedback abounds. They genuinely care about each and every one of their students and are constantly available for quick individual coaching and jolts of encouragement. Future designer, you will be ever thankful if you invest in these six weeks now!”
Carl-Adam Hellqvist
Co-Founder and Designer at Knowly
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“I cannot thank Jeff and Hannah enough for making such an enjoyable and effective course. Their workshop content and delivery, the artefacts and feedback helped me immensely in consolidating and improving my UX and UXR knowledge. I left the course feeling 100% more confident, with a better overview of the range of possibilities for UX and UXR in my company, and a great set of tools to guide my colleagues in UX strategy and research.”
Anna Stutter Garcia
Senior Learner Experience Designer at Babbel
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“My hope when signing up for this course was to not only improve my hands-on UX skills, but also to gain confidence in my abilities and knowledge about how to be a better designer in general - and that’s exactly what I got. Within six weeks I not only learned skills that I could immediately apply at work, but I also had the chance to do research that actually helped me understand the users I work with better. Thanks to this course, I now have hands-on design practices and frameworks at hand, which I can bring into my company. I also gained the confidence to share my research and work with my team in a way that will convince them of the value of my findings and help our products advance.”
Nadia Staiger
UI/UX Designer at Keleya Digital-Health Solutions
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“Jeff and Hannah are caring and passionate teachers. I feel that this course pushes Product (UX/UI) designers to think beyond the pixels to become more strategic thinkers who can start to influence product direction and vision. This course affirmed for me parts of design that are very important and not taught in traditional design education, things such as facilitation and questioning assumptions. I highly recommend this course for any product designer who wants to involve more critical and measured thinking in their work.”
Kenji Kaneko
Product Designer at Duo Security
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“This course was exactly what I needed, to level up on my skills as a Junior UX designer and progress from there. We learned techniques on how to bring the discovery phase to life and make vital parts more visible. It is superb to know very practical and hands-on tips and tricks for the real working world. This course also provides you with in-depth theory and further reading suggestions, which is excellent. What I also loved were the parts on facilitating workshops and presentation techniques. All in all, a great learning experience I will profit from in the future. Hannah and Jeff go out of their way to make this course a really valuable, enjoyable, and fun learning experience and are available for advice any time you require it.”
Anja Lena Sack-Hauchwitz
UX Designer | UX Generalist | Product Designer
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“The course is very engaging and easy to follow. In 6 weeks, it led me to analyze the relationship between me as a designer and my current organization, which enabled me with a bird’s-eye view of the current design/development process and inspired me to come up with solutions to existing problems following the methodologies taught in this course.”
Chang Jiang
UX/UI Designer at SkyPrep Training Software
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“I recommend this course to everyone who is starting to gather experience in UI / UX Design. When I was learning UI Design, I focused more on small details like design principles, colours, typography, etc. This course helped me to understand how to see my work process in the big picture. For example, how to collaborate with non-designer teams like developers & product owners and how it works digital product development in the real world. The most exciting part is for me to learn with other designers together.”
Saran Battsengel
UI Designer at HUMANOO
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“Jeff's and Hannah's course just strikes the perfect balance between low-level methods that are helpful in your everyday work and great abstract concepts that help you to think differently about the designs you are doing. The material is very well prepared, and the course is engaging and always giving you something to think about for the rest of the week.”
Johannes Schweig
Product Designer at Valsight
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“The UX of the course is on point. It feels authentic, self-aware, and created solely with students in mind…The course seems to distill vast swathes of literature into atomic nuggets for designers-after-work to consume in bitesize portions.”
Pete Armitage
Senior UX Writer at Proxify
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Course Journals
Featured Alumni Talk
Finding Strength in Imposter Syndrome with Maureen Herben
With more experience comes…more imposter syndrome? Maureen Herben, alumnus of Defining UX Strategy, will talk about how she moved beyond senior-level confidence issues.
