Saturday, August 9

UX Career Accelerator Workshop (AI focused) - SF Bay area (Aug 2025)

Designed for JR & SR UXers, this workshop will give you actionable techniques and strategy to unblock & fast track your UX career growth.

By Steven Ma (Staff UX Lead + Manager @ Google)

Date and time

Location

The Satellite Sunnyvale

100 S. Murphy Ave. 2nd fl. Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event.

Agenda

Welcome (~0.5 hour)

Introduction, logistic, and objectives for the day

Thrive in the business world of UX design (~0.5 hour)

Level-set on the value of UX design and what it is really about | Aligning the value between business and the UX discipline

Become your team’s UX superstar (~2.5 hours)

The foundational core skills of great UX designers | Building your brand as a designer - Know who you are and reinforce it | Effective collaboration with Product Managers and Developers | Presenting...

Break (0.5 hour)

First official break to refuel | Flexible timing

Gen AI's impact on UX - and what you must do NOW! (~1.0 hours)

Still using Figma? What if I tell you Figma may go the way of dinosaurs ? We'll discuss how AI is impacting our line of work as UX designers and how we go about doing researches. I'll be demonstrat...

Landing your UX dream job (~1.5 hours)

Insider tips on acing your next job application | Ingredients of an effective resume / case study | Acing your next job interviews

Break (0.25 hour)

(Time permitting) Career at a fork - Be a UX manager, or not? (~0.5 hour)

Career progression for individual contributors | Should I become a UX manager? What do managers do? | Freelancing, Consulting, and other options

Q&A (~0.5 hour)

Answering your questions | Wrapping up the day

About this event

Event lasts 7 hours 30 minutes

About the Instructor

Steven Ma, a Staff UX Lead / Manager, has 20+ years of experience in UX design, mainly in Silicon Valley and Seattle.
He has also taught at General Assembly as an instructor on their UX Design Immersive course and has been teaching UX for 8+ years.

Top 3 things (but likely a lot more) you'll gain from attending this class

Actionable techniques you can use to launch your career growth path to a new trajectory
Improvement recommendations you can leverage to improve your resume, case studies, and interviews to significantly increase your competitiveness in a tough job market
A truly unique view and understanding of how you can leverage the latest Gen AI tools to put yourself in the top 10 percentile of the job market.

Testimonials

Your knowledge, experience, and passion for design really came through in the class. That is really appreciated - and also encouraging and motivating...- Mark F.

I genuinely learned so much more in your 8 hour workshop than a course that spans weeks or months. The highlight of your workshop is how you teach the concepts but also incorporate what it will realistically be like in the industry... - Diana H.

I wanted to thank you for a terrific, informative UX design bootcamp. I was impressed by your knowledge, really enjoyed your lecture style, and appreciate you staying after to answer questions. - Skye S.

Thanks for a great bootcamp this weekend! I really enjoyed it and you’re an excellent teacher. Your class really helped solidify my interest in UX research. - Jayelin F.

I learned more in 8 hours than I did in a part-time 8-week program thank you, Steven! - Mindy R.

Questions?

Email the instructor

Organized by

Steven Ma (Staff UX Lead + Manager @ Google)

Steven Ma

Linkedin | General Assembly | Portfolio | Articles

Currently a Staff UX Design Lead at Google, Steven has over 20 years of industry experience leading enterprise-scale UX projects and building great UX teams at Google, Pure, Amazon, and IBM.

Steven helped Pure creating its UX discipline and built its UX team from the ground up, including the hiring of the entire UX team. In 2021, Steven led the charge in winning the prestigious A'Design award for Pure1's cloud tooling. At Google, Steven is the design lead for 2 key strategic Ads pillars, and has interviewed over `100s of designers to help Google Ads grow its UX organization.

Fueled by his love for teaching, Steven has been teaching UX for 9 years across multiple countries that include the San Francisco bay area, Australia, Japan, and Hong Kong.

Steven is the owner of 8 invention patents, author of multiple publications, and has earned certificates in both the IBM Leadership Excellence (IBMLE) Program and Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP). In his spare time he enjoys discovering craft beer, watching football, and gobbling up blogs and tweets from those he follows.

Early bird discount

From $247.27