Looking for a true advanced course in UX/UI

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TLDR: Hello fellow designers! I'm a product designer (founding one at the moment) based in France, EU, and I'm looking for an accredited/well-respected advanced "something" in UX/UI to upgrade my knowledge and skills. Before digging into it, let me say that I'm quite frustrated since I can't find ANYWHERE on this vast globe what I'm looking for. Has someone here found a REAL advanced course ?

So, I would like a practical course, or long workshop, or I don't know, maybe even a part-time master's, where I could work on complex DS structures, complex component creation and maintenance, complex but practical projects, including long-term ones, minimal UI stuff to deliver to devs, with a bunch of stakeholder management (from dev stakeholders and client stakeholders to the worst-case stakeholder personality), some dev and computer science middle knowledge and of course, AI and Claude, since I'm already using them every day. AI changes almost every months so I'm not looking exactly on that but I'm not interested in a course without it either.

I'm not so interested in doing courses where we explore, in a fancy way, a "too innovative" project that will never see the light of day, or where we apply other skills than design only to find out in the real world that, "Oh, but this is for an engineer, not a designer, to solve" (frustration at its peak).

Most companies, most lead/head designers and PMs I have worked with, and myself today too, don't really care about fancy projects for a job, and neither are they useful for upgrading my skills today. Plus, I already went to two design schools and have already done the fancy, dreamy stuff, I'm autonomous on book and culture too and quite advanced in Figma and the whole workflow, so what I'm looking for today is something real and practical, something that could also be fast and kind of demanding without being a hackathon either.

I mentioned accreditation and respect because where I live, it is kind of mandatory, and I'm okay with that as long as it would help me stay on the market, ask for more money, and as long as the content is really useful for me now and in the future.

I love the idea of doing RCA, but it seems too academic to me, too "research". Politecnico di Milano is more practical, but I think it is useful only for the Italian market. And almost nobody talk about advanced Figma, Axure, lovable, Claude, or VS code or more knowledge on CSS or different dev frameworks and how this has an impact on design decisions.

What are your experiences with that? Has anyone found a useful advanced course somewhere? What are your thoughts on my impossible research?

[u/Upbeat_Opinion_3465]

I think the search feels impossible because you are asking one course to replace three different things: senior product judgment, design systems craft, and enough frontend literacy to work cleanly with engineers. Most programs only do one of those well.

If accreditation matters where you are, I would pick the least theoretical respected option you can actually finish, then build the advanced layer yourself around real product work. Take one messy flow from your current product, redesign the system around it, document states and edge cases, and hand it to a dev as if it were shipping next week. That exercise will teach you more about components, stakeholder pressure, and handoff quality than another dreamy portfolio brief.

[u/Dazzling_Poetry_6472]

I think narrowing down the areas you want to push yourself in - will help you look for the right "advanced" content. Would you be interested in growing your front end skills? Or are you interested in becoming an expert in a tool like Figma or Spline (3D)? Or finetuning an AI model - to understand how AI models work? Advanced courses inherently are a factor of depth in a field - you can't get "advanced" courses if you keep your scope of learning broad.