by Sharae
 

Our founder

Sharae Gibbs

👋 Hey friend! My name is Sharae Gibbs and I’m the Founder & CEO of She Designs! I’m also an Interaction Designer at Google with over 10 years of experience in UX Research & Design. In this course, I will be sharing my design tips and tricks with you to help you craft an amazing UX portfolio. Throughout the program, I will be providing you with direct feedback on your work and I will continuously challenge you to embrace our course mindsets.

 
 

Our team

Keevi Gibbs

Operations Manager

Shannon Green

Business Consultant

Katasi Kulubya

Instructor

JR Miller

Mentor

Andrea Makhlouf

Student Success

Adrianna Oquendo

Student Success

 

Our community

 
 
 
 
 
 

Our partners

 

Blush allows you to easily create and customize stunning illustrations with collections made by artists across the globe. Our enrolled students receive an extended free trial of BlushPro for free! Enrolled students will receive an invitation from our partners to use the tool.

 

Invision is a product design tool used for prototyping. Our enrolled students receive a personal discount code for 6 months free on InVision.

 

Meritize provides students with financing options to fund their education. Students can check their loan options in minutes without impacting their credit score. Learn more

 

A message from our mentors

Irene Montalban, Product Strategist, Philosophie

I believe mentorship is a great way to give back and continue helping designers who may not necessarily have the privilege or resources to do so on their own. Plus, I believe mentorship is a mutual exchange, which will allow me to broaden my view into what goes on in other areas and excessive my emotional intelligence.

Ashley Glover, Interaction Designer, Google

My life is a product of the time and investment others saw in my potential at an early age. Because of them, I believe in the importance of paying it forward to others. I would love the opportunity to allow other women of color the opportunity to go farther faster so they can advance the field of UX.

Erin Haywood, Career Coach

The first step to a successful job search is setting an intention and believing you are able to do the job at hand. The job search is a marathon, so you have to develop a resilient and strengths-based approach that will keep you motivated despite setbacks or challenges.

JR Miller, UX Writing Lead and Product Designer, Google

She Designs teaches students how to ask the right questions to appropriately understand a user’s journey. Those questions are essential for positioning yourself as an effective design partner, a thoughtful collaborator, and an effective contributor that can add real value to a cross-functional team.

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What makes our program unique

Students in our UX Immersive program work with real start-up companies and are mentored and trained by industry professionals. Please fill out our online application to apply to work with our students and get access to our network of professionals.

 
 

A special thank you ✨

Sharae Gibbs is the founder of She Designs and the winner of the 2021 Queens Startup technology category. Her goal is to build an online coding camp for women of color that provides a direct pipeline to tech roles, a robust mentorship program, career preparation, and access to professional women and allies in the tech community.

Thank you so much to the QEDC and Biscuit & Chai for selecting us for the Technology startup pitch category! What an amazing opportunity we have to give back to our community and teach women of color how to code.