Learn by making, together with people who care about craft.
Quillmark Academy teaches product design, web development, data analysis and writing through small live cohorts and self-paced courses. Every course is built around one real project, with an instructor reading your work each week.
- Live cohorts of up to 18 learners
- Written feedback every week
- Courses from 3 to 10 weeks
Twelve courses, each built around one real project
Search by topic, tool or instructor, then narrow by subject, level, format and length. Open any course to see its modules, schedule and prerequisites.
Showing all 12 courses.
- Product designLive cohort
Product Design Foundations
Learn the full loop of product design by redesigning one everyday app flow from research to tested prototype.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 8 weeks
- Sample price
- $890
- Product designLive cohort
Practical UX Research
Plan, run and synthesise research that changes decisions: interviews, diary studies and lightweight surveys.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- 6 weeks
- Sample price
- $760
- Product designLive cohort
Design Systems in Practice
Build and document a small component library with tokens, usage guidance and a contribution model.
- Level
- Advanced
- Length
- 10 weeks
- Sample price
- $1,240
- Web developmentSelf-paced
HTML and CSS from Scratch
Write semantic HTML and modern CSS layouts by building a responsive personal site, one section a week.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 6 weeks
- Sample price
- $290
- Web developmentLive cohort
JavaScript Essentials
Learn to think in JavaScript by building three small interactive tools that run in the browser.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 8 weeks
- Sample price
- $920
- Web developmentLive cohort
Building Interfaces with React
Build a multi-page React application with components, state, routing, testing and accessible forms.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- 10 weeks
- Sample price
- $1,180
- Web developmentSelf-paced
Accessible Web Interfaces
Audit and fix real interface patterns against WCAG 2.2 using a keyboard, a screen reader and automated checks.
- Level
- Advanced
- Length
- 4 weeks
- Sample price
- $340
- Data analysisSelf-paced
Spreadsheets to Insight
Clean, summarise and chart data in a spreadsheet, then write a short finding that answers a real question.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 4 weeks
- Sample price
- $240
- Data analysisLive cohort
SQL for Analysis
Query relational data with confidence: joins, aggregations, window functions and readable queries.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- 6 weeks
- Sample price
- $780
- Data analysisLive cohort
Data Storytelling and Visualisation
Design charts and written narratives that make analysis understandable, honest and hard to misread.
- Level
- Advanced
- Length
- 8 weeks
- Sample price
- $980
- WritingSelf-paced
Clear Writing for Work
Write emails, updates and documents that get read: structure first, then plain, confident sentences.
- Level
- Beginner
- Length
- 3 weeks
- Sample price
- $190
- WritingLive cohort
UX Writing and Content Design
Write interface copy that guides people: labels, errors, empty states and voice guidelines.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- 6 weeks
- Sample price
- $720
Three curated sequences, if you would rather not choose alone
Each path strings three courses together so every project builds on the last. Take them back to back or leave a gap between: the order is what matters.
- Path 01
Curious to product designer
From your first interview to a documented component library, with critique at every step.
- Path 02
Front-end, browser up
Hand-written HTML and CSS, then JavaScript, then a tested React app built accessibly from the start.
- Path 03
Numbers into narratives
Spreadsheets, then SQL, then charts and writing that help people make better decisions.
Cohorts, projects and feedback, in that order
The format is simple on purpose. A steady weekly rhythm leaves room for the part that actually teaches you: making something and hearing how to make it better.
- Step 1
Join a small cohort
Live courses start on a set Monday with up to 18 learners and one instructor. You meet the same people every week, so questions get easier to ask.
- Step 2
Make one real project
Every module moves a single project forward: a redesigned flow, a working app, a published data story. No disconnected quizzes.
- Step 3
Get written feedback weekly
Instructors annotate your work every week, and peers trade structured critique in small groups using a shared rubric.
- Step 4
Keep what you made
You finish with the project, your notes and a short write-up of the decisions you made, ready to show or keep building.
The people reading your work
Every instructor here is a fictional character written for this demo. Their portraits are illustrated initials, not photos of real people.
Ines Okafor-Lind
Product designRuns the design studio sessions. Cares about research you can act on and prototypes you can test by Friday.
Teaches Product Design Foundations, Practical UX ResearchTomás Reyes
Web developmentTeaches HTML, CSS and JavaScript from the browser up, with accessibility treated as part of done.
Teaches HTML and CSS from Scratch, JavaScript Essentials, Accessible Web InterfacesPriya Hallworth
Data analysisTurns spreadsheets into clear questions, honest charts and short written findings people actually read.
Teaches Spreadsheets to Insight, SQL for AnalysisAugust Mbeki
WritingEdits with a pencil and a kind eye. Focuses on structure first, then sentences, then the last ten percent.
Teaches Clear Writing for Work, UX Writing and Content DesignMei Lindqvist
Front-end and design systemsBridges design and code: tokens, components and the conversations that keep them in sync.
Teaches Design Systems in Practice, Building Interfaces with ReactRafaela Duarte
Data and writingCoaches analysts on telling the story behind the numbers without overselling what the data can say.
Teaches Data Storytelling and Visualisation
The next start for every live course
Live cohorts start on Mondays and run on a fixed four-week cycle, so each course comes round once a month. These are sample dates, worked out in your browser from that cycle.
Self-paced courses are not listed here: you can start those on any day.
Sample prices, shown plainly
Quillmark Academy is a concept demo, so these numbers are illustrations of how pricing could be presented. Nothing can be bought here.
Self-paced course
$190 to $340per course, sample prices- Start any day
- Recorded lessons and exercises
- Written feedback on set checkpoints
- Access for 12 months
Live cohort
$720 to $1,240per course, sample prices- Weekly live sessions, recorded
- Instructor feedback every week
- Small-group critique
- One free move to a later cohort
Learning path
10% offsample discount when three path courses are booked together- Three courses in a set order
- One enquiry, one plan
- Pause between courses
- Same feedback rhythm throughout
Paying over time (sample policy)
Any course could be split into three equal monthly payments with no added fee. For example, a $890 live cohort would be three payments of $297. In this sample policy, a full refund is available until the end of the first week, and a limited number of fee-assistance places are offered each cycle.
Questions people tend to ask first
No. Quillmark Academy is a fictional concept demo designed and built by CraftLayer Studio. The courses, instructors, dates and prices are sample content, and no enrolment is possible.
Live cohorts start on a set date and meet online each week with a small group and an instructor. Self-paced courses start whenever you like, with recorded lessons and written feedback on set checkpoints.
Each course lists a weekly range, usually between three and nine hours including live sessions, reading and project work. The detail view for every course shows the expected rhythm.
In this sample curriculum every course is designed around free tools or free tiers, and the detail view lists any setup you would need before starting.
The sample pricing shows how a split into three monthly payments could be presented. In this demo there is no checkout and nothing can be paid.
In the sample policy, live cohort learners can move once to a later cohort of the same course, and recordings of every session stay available for the length of the course.
Ask about a course or a start date
Tell us what you would like to learn and when you could start. In a real academy an adviser would reply by email; this demo keeps everything in your browser tab.