Inside
Everything in one Shift Nudge membership, unfolded on one page. PRO includes every item below, and VIP adds the live layer at the end. Each item links to its full page.
Interface Design
The full craft system. 16 principles, 85+ lessons across 8 modules, AI design prompts and exercises in every lesson, design files, and checklists. Every lesson is built why, then what, then how.
Start
- Welcome
- How Everything Works
- Pro-Designer Mindset
- Choosing Design Software
- UX vs. UI
- Design Process Overview
- Using Reference Material
- Quick Keys Fast Workflow
- Organizing Design Projects
- Figma Organization
Typography
- Font Size
- Font Weight
- Hierarchy
- Titles & Body
- Callouts
- Truncation
- Text Style Definitions
- Interactive Text
- Combining Text and Elements
- Start With System Fonts
- Using Alternate Fonts
- Typography Overview
- Details of UI Typography from Apple
Layout
- The Box Model
- Grids & Containers
- Implicit Grid
- Negative Space
- Alignment
- Optics vs. Math
- High & Low Density
- Scale, Weight, & Hierarchy
- Affordance
- Interactive Layouts
- Layout Connectors
Color
- Color Picking Methods
- Contrast & Accessibility
- Structural vs. Interactive
- First, Second, Third
- Strategic Definitions
- Amount & Modification
- Gradients
- Nifty Shades of Grey
- White & Almost White
- Secrets of Dark UI
Style
- Design Direction
- Subtlety is Key
- Corner Radius
- Borders & Dividers
- Depth, Lighting and Shadow
- Opacity & Blur
- Deconstructing Styles
- Button Styles
- Marketing Site Style
- Form vs. Function
Imagery
- Imagery Overview
- Static Images
- To Rasterize or Not
- Dynamic Images
- Blend Modes
- Photo Manipulation
- Resourceful Assets
- Creating Icons
- Using Icons
- Simple Illustrations
- App Icons
Elements
- Introduction to Elements
- Navigation
- User Input
- Forms
- Profile
- Settings
- Lists & Cards
- Detail Screens
- Sorting & Filtering
- Modals
- Tables
- Design Systems
Tactics
- No-stress Experiments
- Low-Fidelity Designs
- Mobile-First Responsive
- iOS Design
- Material Design
- Design Doc Organization
- Leading Design Reviews
- Prototyping
- Developer Handoff
- Pricing & Getting Work
- Bonus: Figma Variants
Claude Code Training
Build your designs with AI. 21 lessons, a real web app and a native iOS app built start to finish, 24+ hours of behind the scenes footage, and the skill files MDS builds with.
Lessons
- Orientation
- Why should you learn Claude Code?
- Terminal basics
- Claude Code setup
- Your local folder structure
- GitHub account and basics
- Vercel and deployment
- Your code editor (IDE setup)
- Ways to use Claude Code
- Hello world
- Introduction to the project
- How to spec a build before Claude touches it
- Canvas vs Code
- Designing the build
- Iterating the build
- Tweaking with precision
- Starting the iOS port
- Native translation and device reality
- Asking Claude for help
- Context management
- Staying current
Tools
- Terminal theming
- Terminal shortcuts
- API keys and secrets
- Connecting Figma with MCP
- Annotating with Agentation
- Live-tuning with DialKit
- Skills, personal and project
- iOS native components
- Shipping to a real iPhone
BTS
- Welcome to behind the scenes
Web build
- Idea to first build
- Designing while building
- A creative GSAP expedition
- Breaking AI target fixation
- Component architecture before code
- Figma to Claude Code via MCP
- Context engineering in practice
- Bidirectional Figma ↔ React syncing
Mobile + iOS planning
- Refining UI in Ghostty
- Mobile that scales
- Tuning animation feel with DialKit
- Mobile polish on a real device
- The iOS-or-not decision
- Documenting before the port
- Writing the PRD before the build
- Handoff to execution
- First look at the iOS build
Native iOS refinement
- Native iOS interaction model
- Going truly native
- Web port to native iOS translation
- Microinteractions that come alive
- Custom font picker
- Putting it on a real iPhone
Included
- Full interface design training
- Shift Nudge community
- Official certificates
- Portfolio Workshop
- Figma training
- Shift Nudge AI
- Critique vault
Shift Nudge AI
AI design crit, in Beta for members. Unlimited critiques of your own screens, in Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, on your own AI account.
- Critique any screen: a screenshot, a live page, or a Figma frame, with prioritized fixes
- Built on the 16 principles, the same system the training teaches
- Plans and critiques your portfolio against what hiring managers check first
- Works for you and for your AI agents
Portfolio Workshop
The career layer. Four recorded sessions, 90 minutes each, with the panels that hire and the designers who got the role. 11 real portfolios critiqued on camera, 23 portfolio questions answered, plus the Figma portfolio file, session notes, checklists, and the AI portfolio crit.
- 01
- MDS Method
Map, decide, structure. Images first, everything else second, container last. - 02
- Hiring Manager Panel
Nad Chishtie of Lovable, Helena Zhang formerly of Medium, and Noah Stokes formerly of Dribbble on what sends a portfolio to the no pile. - 03
- Designer Panel
Amy Lima of Figma, Blake Shae Kos of Expedia Group, and Caden Damiano of BILL on the paths that got them the role. - 04
- Portfolio Reviews
MDS reviews real portfolios live. Ten seconds for the gut call, then the full breakdown.
Figma 101
12 fast-paced videos to learn Figma in about an hour. Free for everyone, and included as the on-ramp if Figma is new to you.
Design critique vault
1,000+ real screens critiqued on camera, searchable and growing since 2020. Watch real work get fixed, hear the reasoning out loud, and train your eye on someone else’s rep before you risk your own.
Community
A professional community of working designers in 90+ countries, hosted in Circle. Designers from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, Google, Figma, and Pentagram have trained with Shift Nudge. Your critiques stay private by default, and you bring work to the community when you are ready.
Certificate
Finish the interface design curriculum and receive the certificate of interface design, shareable on LinkedIn. A concrete artifact for your manager.
Upgrade to VIP
The VIP path includes everything in PRO and adds the live layer with MDS.
- Weekly
- Coaching with MDS
Weekly live critique calls at US Eastern times, Q&A included, every session recorded. Priority goes to members who submit work and attend regularly. - 60+
- Live call library
Replays of every recorded session, about 90 hours and growing. - Private VIP space
A private VIP space inside the community, exclusively for VIP members to share their work.
Tools keep changing. Shift Nudge builds the eye and the skills to know what to do with them. This will show up in your designs, how you defend your decisions, and what ultimately gets shipped.