Druids/Senior Product Designer & Design EngineerEnrolment openTwo-week live cohort·Starts Mon 9 Nov
Design.Build.Get hired.
Your design isn't the problem. Your pricing, pitching and positioning are.
A two-week live mentorship to build with AI, find and price clients, and get ready for your next role. From someone who has taught over 500 designers to practise design as a business.
Even if you've never had a client or written a line of code.
- Build with AI: take a design from Figma to a working, deployed build with free coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
- Find and price clients: get your work seen, write cold emails, build a pipeline of potential clients, and price your projects
- Research and product analytics: plan research with agents, track what people do with PostHog or Mixpanel, and turn the data into product decisions
- Prepare for your next role: negotiate salary, get ready for design interviews, and work through design exercises
- Any level. Entry, mid, senior. The room is mixed on purpose, and the teaching does not change
What this is, from the person teaching it.
One minute, from Druids. If you only do one thing on this page, watch this. If you'd rather read, here's what it covers:
- Who's teaching. A senior product designer and design engineer who has spent six years teaching over 500 designers to practise design as a business.
- What it is. A two-week live mentorship class: building with AI, finding and pricing clients, and preparing for your next role.
- What you'll work on. Getting your work seen, cold emails and a pipeline of potential clients, pricing projects, negotiating salary, and design interviews and exercises.
- How it runs. Every session is live and recorded, so you can go back over it when it suits you. $150 (₦200,000) a seat.
Most designers try this. Here's what works.
What most designers try
- Post on Dribbble and Behance, and wait for a client to notice
- Apply to listings with a PDF and hope it stands out
- Quote whatever feels safe, or take whatever's offered
- Hand over a Figma file and hope someone builds it
What works instead
- Get your work in front of clients, and pitch them directly with cold emails
- Build a pipeline of potential clients, so the next project is already in motion
- Price projects with a method, not a guess, and negotiate your salary instead of accepting the first offer
- Build it yourself with AI, so what you show is a working product
Taught by someone who designs and builds for a living.
Druids was Head of Design at Socket, where he led product design for SocketScan and Bungee Exchange, helping scale to more than one million users and over $30 billion in transaction volume.
Before that, Founding Designer at Veranta, where he designed a derivatives exchange that has processed more than $120 billion in trading volume.
He works across product strategy, research, interaction design, design systems and engineering, which is why this cohort covers building as well as the business around it.
The agent skills you'll use are already public. You get them, plus the ones that aren't.
ddruids/mobbin-skill★ 25
AI skill for structured UI/UX research using the Mobbin MCP. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Lovable, and any MCP-compatible agent.
Included in the cohort
ddruids/design-engineer★ 9
Claude skill: unified design-engineering agent. Figma-to-frontend conversion plus a senior-level React / Next.js / TypeScript handbook.
Included in the cohort
118 designers took cohort 1. Here's what they built.
Docora
Learns a brand from any PDF, then restyles your documents to match.
Crowd Said
A Family Feud-style guessing game you can play solo.
Afterwatch
Recommendations based on your taste, not what’s trending.
TicketVault
Turns a bank branch’s paper tickets into searchable, auditable records.
Crypto marketplace
A responsive marketplace frontend, built with Claude Code.
Skyline
Weather now, for the next 24 hours and for 5 days, on one screen.
Selah
Bible-based affirmations you swipe through.
Flo
An interactive mood character, made for a day 1 assignment.
Animated badges
Made with Hyperframes and ChatGPT.
And what they said about the class.
Six classes, class by class.
Class 1
Code Magic
Building interfaces with AI agents
- Creating and maintaining a design system in code
- Working with component libraries
- Motion tokens and animating UI in code
Assignment: Build a design from Figma, and build an idea from scratch with no design.
Class 2
Research Sorcery
Research, from plan to priorities
- Creating a research plan
- Desk research with agents
- Research synthesis
- Prioritising with an impact vs effort matrix
- Defining success
Class 3
Product Alchemy
Turning analytics into product decisions
- Testing a live prototype
- Capturing feedback with PostHog or Mixpanel events
- Defining activation and conversion events
- Session replays and documenting hypotheses
- Writing outcome reports
Class 4
Business Spellbook
Positioning, leads, pitching and pricing
- What’s your story
- Your beliefs
- Positioning
- ICPs and other shenanigans
- Building proof of work
- Finding outbound leads
- Pitching with data
- Cold emails and DMs
- Warm intros
- Inbound leads on X and LinkedIn
- Discovery calls, with his template
- Pricing and negotiations
- Client objections
- Proposals
Class 5
Client Craft
Running client work, start to finish
- Client onboarding
- Client comms
- Contracts
- Handoffs
- Offboarding
- Asking for testimonials and referrals
Class 6
Career Enchantment
Growing your design career
- Who do you want to work for?
- What work do you want to do?
- Defining your career progression path
- Resume and portfolio review
- Documenting your work
- Preparing for interviews
- Doing take-home design exercises
- Designing for outcomes
- Understanding business and product metrics
- Presenting your work to stakeholders
- Keeping a brag document for performance reviews
What's inside. And what isn't.
- 6 live classes over two weeks. Three a week, about two hours each. They run over when the build isn't done
- Code, research, product, business, clients and career. One class each, in that order
- A members' portal with the class material and assignments, in one place
Not included. Said plainly.
- A guaranteed job. The promise is the capability. What you do with it is yours
- Content that stays fixed. It changes every cohort because the tools change every month
- Paid tools. Everything taught runs on the free tiers of the agents
If any of that is a dealbreaker, the free community is a better fit right now. No hard feelings.
What you keep.
Templates
Client email and proposal templates
The cold emails and proposals he sends to clients, ready to adapt to your own work.
AI workflow
Agent skills and configs
The skills, .md configs and briefing templates his agents run on, including the ones that aren’t public.
Every class
Recordings and slides
In the members’ portal, shot on a proper camera, not a screen-grab. Miss a live class and you still have it.
Between classes
The private Telegram group
Questions, builds and feedback with the rest of the cohort.
Who this is for.
- You design well, but you don't know how to price your work
- You've never pitched a client, or you've pitched and heard nothing back
- You earn in Naira and want to work with clients abroad
- You're job-hunting, and want to negotiate salary and handle design interviews
- You want to build what you design, with AI, without learning to code
Not for you if
- You can't give it about six hours a week for two weeks, live or on the recordings
- You want someone to find clients for you. You'll leave knowing how; doing it is on you
How the two weeks run.
Starts
Mon 9 Nov 2026
Enrolment closes the night before
Length
Two weeks
Ends around 22 Nov
Live classes
3 per week
Mon–Wed or Tue–Thu. The cohort votes
Time
Voted by the cohort
WAT baseline. Recordings for every session
Where
Members’ portal and Telegram
Classes and resources in the portal. Chat and questions on Telegram
Four things people ask.
I can't code. Is this for me?
Yes. The build part isn't about writing code: you learn to direct an agent that writes it, from a design you already made. If you can describe what you want and judge whether the result matches, you have the prerequisite. Everything else (clients, pricing, salary, interviews) needs no code at all.
I'm junior / I'm senior. Same room?
Same room, on purpose. Juniors get to watch how seniors think about a problem. Seniors get pushed on tooling they've been avoiding. The teaching doesn't change by level, because the workflow doesn't.
How do I pay? Can I pay in instalments?
Pay $150 by card with Stripe, from anywhere. If you're in Africa, you can pay ₦200,000 locally by bank or Chipper Cash instead, in full or in 2 instalments. Both are on the same checkout.
What if I miss a live class?
You get the recording, shot properly, usually the same day. It goes in the members’ portal with the slides and files from that session. Live is better because you can ask, but nobody falls behind because of one missed evening.
Not ready? Join the free community on Telegram. Free things go there first, and it's where the next cohort gets announced.