Button School makes courses for designers and developers to deepen their craft, expand their skills, and advance their careers.
Our flagship course, Advanced UI Design, helps experienced designers sharpen their visual judgment and attention to detail through hands-on projects, critique sessions, and focused practice on the subtle choices that elevate interfaces from “fine” to “excellent.”
Our newest course, Making Your Own Apps, helps you work with LLM-assisted coding tools to bring your ideas to life.
We believe that great design is practical, visible, and rooted in real-world application—leading with examples rather than explanations, making ideas tangible through working code and prototypes, and building for durability over disposability.
We share our work and process openly, and offer resources like our handbook publicly as a resource to the design, development, and education communities. Feel free to poke around and see what we’re up to.
Head of Education
Nevan has been teaching designers and developers for over a decade, and still loves every minute of it! He's led programs at General Assembly and Ironhack, and coached designers and developers at every stage of their careers. He's worked on design systems and products for the Swiss Red Cross, New York University, Hoefler & Frere-Jones, and Buzzfeed.
Product Lead
Sofía is a product manager and designer with a decade of experience in the tech education industry. She has participated in the creation of multiple bootcamp courses at Ironhack. She has worked both in the B2C and B2B part of the business, with clients such as Banco Santander, Sanitas, Accenture, the Spanish Government among many others. She specializes in product positioning, project management and setting up teams for success to deliver great work.
Learning Designer
Francis is a proud Mancunian and adopted Madrileño. As a teacher, content writer and examiner, he has spent nearly 15 years in private and public education, including examinations for Cambridge and the Spanish Foreign Ministry. Passionate about professional training, he enjoys delivering presentations and writing for online publications. He is excited to apply his more recent expertise in UX and learning design to create engaging digital learning experiences.
Advisor
Cori is a content designer, editor, and always one conversation away from starting a podcast. He has taught design at General Assembly and Ironhack, and mentored for Designlab and Thinkful. Previously, he led UX Writing at Discord and Automatic Labs, and is the reason the SF Muni website explains why some curbs in San Francisco are painted green.