1. Who this is between
These terms are an agreement between you and DesigneChi Training Academy (“DTA”, “we”), based in Nigeria. You accept them by ticking the box on the registration form and paying the fee. How we handle your data is covered separately in our privacy notice.
2. What you are buying
A seat on DTA Cohort 4 — UI/UX in 3 Weeks, running Monday 16 November 2026 to Saturday 5 December 2026. That seat includes:
- Nine live sessions over three weeks, taught on Google Meet — Tuesdays and Thursdays for about 90 minutes, and a two-hour Saturday workshop.
- A capstone brief with mentor feedback, worked on during the cohort.
- Recordings of every session, posted within 24 hours and available to you for six months from the cohort’s end date.
- The cohort group, for questions and support between sessions.
- A certificate, on the terms in section 9.
The cohort holds 15 seats, deliberately, so that everyone gets looked at. Registration closes Saturday 14 November, 11:59pm WAT, or earlier if the seats fill.
3. Price and payment
The fee is ₦50,000 (shown as $59 for international visitors), payable in full at registration. There is no instalment option and no seat is held without payment.
Payment is collected in naira by Paystack. International cards work normally; you will see the naira amount at checkout and your bank will apply its own conversion and any fees it charges, which are not ours and not included in the figure above.
4. Refunds and transfers
The fee is not refundable and your seat cannot be transferred to another person or to a later cohort. This is the box you tick at registration. Please decide before paying, not after.
We hold that line because the cohort is small on purpose. A seat you take is a seat nobody else could have, and we plan teaching time around the number of people enrolled. Changing your mind, running out of time, or not attending does not entitle you to money back.
There are three exceptions, and only three:
- We cancel before the cohort starts. You get the full fee back.
- We cancel once it has started. You get back the proportion of the fee covering the sessions that will not be delivered.
- You were charged twice for one seat. We refund the duplicate as soon as we can see it, whether or not you spot it first.
A refund is returned by the same route the payment came in, through Paystack, and usually reaches you within 10 working days of us approving it.
5. When your seat is confirmed
Your seat is confirmed once Paystack tells our server the payment has settled and we have recorded you against the cohort. Joining details go to the email address you registered with, before the cohort starts.
If the payment goes through but something breaks. Occasionally money settles and our system fails to record the seat. If that happens, your seat still stands — we honour the payment, not the paperwork. Email hello@designechi.com with the payment reference and we will sort it by hand. Do not pay a second time.
6. What we need from you
- About five hours a week live, across the three sessions. The teaching is built on you being in the room; replays are a backstop for a missed session, not a way to take the course.
- A laptop or desktop and a usable internet connection. Figma runs in the browser and is free on the plan we use. A phone is not enough to do the work.
- Accurate contact details. We use the email and WhatsApp number you gave us. If either changes, tell us — we cannot chase people who have gone quiet.
- Your own account. One seat is one person. Sharing your access or the recordings with someone who has not paid ends your enrolment without a refund.
7. Sessions are recorded
Every live session is recorded, because the recordings are part of what everyone in the cohort paid for. If you speak, ask a question, or have your camera on, you will be in the recording, and it will be available to the rest of your cohort for six months.
You can keep your camera off and ask questions in the chat instead — nobody is required to be on camera. If you want to be cut out of a specific recording, tell us and we will edit it or leave that section out.
We will not use a recording of you in marketing, on social media or in a public showreel without asking you first, separately, in writing.
8. If we change or cancel
We may have to move a session. If we do, we will give you as much notice as we have and the session will be rescheduled within the cohort’s run, or recorded and posted if it cannot be.
We may change who teaches a session. The named instructors are who we intend to teach, not a guarantee against illness.
If too few people register, we may cancel the cohort before it starts. You will be told as soon as we decide, and refunded in full under section 4.
9. Certificate
A certificate is issued when you submit your capstone project, not for attending. Submitting means handing in the work by the deadline given during the cohort. If you do not submit, there is no certificate, however many sessions you attended.
The certificate records that you completed DTA’s training. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification, and we do not claim it is one.
10. Scholarship seats
A number of free seats are offered each cohort, including seats reserved through Women Techmakers. Those are applied for separately, close Friday 13 November 2026, and are awarded at our discretion. Applying is not being accepted, and a scholarship seat carries the same commitments as a paid one — sections 6, 7, 9 and 12 apply in full.
11. Materials and your own work
Ours. The slides, briefs, templates, recordings and written material are ours. You get them for your own learning for as long as these terms say so. Do not republish them, resell them, post them publicly, or use them to teach your own course.
Yours. Everything you design during the cohort is yours, including the capstone. Put it in your portfolio, show it to employers, sell it — it is your work. We would like to be able to show it as an example of what the cohort produces, and we will ask you before doing that.
12. Conduct
The rooms and the group are for people who want to learn. Harassment, slurs, sexual attention nobody asked for, spamming the group, or pitching your own services to the cohort are not on. Neither is sharing another student’s work or contact details outside the cohort.
We will say something first where that is enough. Where it is not, we will remove you from the cohort without a refund. That decision is ours and we will put the reason in writing.
13. What we do not promise
We teach you to design and to present the work. We do not promise you a job, a client, an internship, a visa, a particular salary, or a particular outcome of any kind. Nobody honest can. What happens after the cohort depends on your work, your market and your effort.
Testimonials on this site are from individual graduates describing their own experience. They are not a prediction of yours.
14. Liability
If we get something wrong and it costs you money, what you can recover from us is limited to the fee you paid for the cohort. We are not liable for indirect losses — lost earnings, lost opportunities, lost data on your own machine — or for third-party services failing, such as Google Meet going down or your internet connection dropping.
Nothing here limits any liability that cannot legally be limited, including for death, personal injury or fraud.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Nigerian courts have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer elsewhere, this does not take away rights your local law gives you that cannot be contracted out of.
Before anyone goes near a court, email hello@designechi.com. Nearly everything is fixable by someone reading the message.
16. Changes to these terms
We may change these terms for future cohorts. The terms that apply to you are the ones published on the day you paid, and we will not change them under you mid-cohort. The date at the top of this page is when the current wording took effect.
Questions about any of this: hello@designechi.com.