About Molades

We've given design interviews

We've given design interviews

and hired exceptional talent

and hired exceptional talent

Built by designers from Zepto, PhonePe, Airtel, Smallcase, Housing. We’re here to share our wisdom and experience to transform you into a designer companies fight to hire.

0 When the founder started
0+Designers transformed
0 First cohort launched
0 Molades born
0 Molades born

What do you actually get?

We’ve been where you are.
We’ve been where you are.
We know where it breaks.
We know where it breaks.

In 2016, there was barely anything to learn design from. Today it's the opposite: thousands of tutorials, most either too shallow to get you hired or too advanced to follow without a roadmap. Neither actually helps a self-taught designer level up.

Molades is the system we wish we'd had. Advanced-level rigor, broken into steps you can actually follow, built to get you shipping products and earning what that work is worth.

What we decided to do

Bridge the gap
with depth, structure, and real guidance.

Our courses go from the absolute basics to advanced, industry-grade execution, with a roadmap any self-taught designer can follow. Not content to consume. A system to grow through.

Most design education disappears once the session ends. We don't. We stay in the room, review your work, and hold you to what you actually ship, not just the syllabus.

We don’t believe in sharing information

Any tutorial does that. We believe in guiding a designer through a transformation they can feel and show.

Transformation is our product

Every course, every cohort, every critique is designed with one outcome in mind: a designer who can think, build, and defend at a level the industry respects.

Every level. Every background.

Whether you’re a fresher or a 5-year designer who’s stuck, there’s a specific program built for exactly where you are right now.

Our story

How
How we got here.
we got here.

Everything we teach came from doing it ourselves: building products, running cohorts, failing publicly, and figuring out what actually helps a designer level up.

2016

Self-Taught Foundation

We started with nothing: no resources, no roadmap, no one to ask. We learned the hard way what makes a designer irreplaceable and built the curriculum we wish we’d had.

2023

First Live Cohort

Four months of intensive, practitioner-led guidance. Designers built real products and defended their decisions in front of us. Then they shipped. The model worked.

2024

India’s first Design Systems community

A dedicated community for designers who wanted to go deeper into systems thinking, tokens, and component architecture.

2025

Cohorts at Scale

We took our cohorts into large organizations and trained 60 designers at a time, keeping the same honesty and depth at scale.

2026

Molades is born

Molades becomes a full, outcome-driven academy: a catalog of courses from entry-level to senior product designer. No fluff, just the skills you need to earn on your own terms.

Where we are today

Where we are today

The people

How
How we got here.
we got here.

Everything we teach came from doing it ourselves: building products, running cohorts, failing publicly, and figuring out what actually helps a designer level up.

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Rajat Patel

Founder @ Molades

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Manav Madaan

Lead Product Designer @ Molades

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Vidhushi Patel

Ops @ Founder's Office

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Priya Patel

Product Designer @ Molades

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Somnath Banerjee

Full Stack Builder @ Molades

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