They’re less likely to want to teach you the foundations of design. An employer can always teach you to use a tool. This A to Z list breaks down all the tools and. Your employability as a UX/UI designer will likely have little to do with what tools you can use, as opposed to your ability to demonstrate good design practices and thinking. Affinity Designer is a powerful program that allows you to create and combine both raster and vector graphics.

That’s not a large upfront investment as opposed to purchasing Creative Suite or Creative Cloud or whatever racket Adobe is offering now. If I recall, Sketch goes for about $99 while Affinity goes for $59 (or so). However, if they are going to teach a tool, Sketch and Affinity seem like good choice if only because they’re much more readily accessible by more people. Learning the process and principles of UX design is independent of the tools. When I look around my office, I see about as many hand sketches on the wall as I do mockups printed out. I don’t know the nature of the bootcamp, maybe it is in fact more focused on the tools, but really a good way to get introduced to UX/UI design would probably be with a piece of paper and pencil.

Affinity designer sketch