About Molades
Built by designers from Zepto, PhonePe, Airtel, Smallcase, Housing, Dell. We’re here to share our wisdom and experience to transform you into a designer companies fight to hire.
What do you actually get?
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 rigour, 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
Our curriculum goes 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 just 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 curriculum built for exactly where you are right now.
Our story
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 organisations 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 curriculum that runs from entry-level to senior product designer. No fluff, just the skills you need to earn on your own terms.
Where we are today
The people
Everything we teach came from doing it ourselves: building products, running cohorts, failing publicly, and figuring out what actually helps a designer level up.
