Our Story
Good Energy Education
Mission
We're making learning UX/UI accessible and enjoyable
Through live immersive bootcamps and online classes we help folks kickstart or grow in their UX/UI careers.
500,000+
We're proud to have grown a community of 500,00+ Designers and Developers who learn with us every day
150+ Countries
On our mission to make learning digital skills accessible, we're grateful to have educated designers and developers in 150+ countries
50+ Team
We're proud to be a lean remote team spread from San Francisco to Sydney and we get together once a year for a fun team retreat
$0 Funding
Unlike a lotta startups, we're fully bootstrapped and on a mission to make learning accessible and enjoyable with VC money
Vision
Our vision is to build the world's most accessible online learning campus
Team
Meet our bootstrapped and fully remote team
Our team is located from San Francisco to Sydney. We collectively share the same values and get together once a year for a good energy team retreat.
Meet our remote team
Sara Mustafa
Canada 🇨🇦
Steph Lance
USA 🇺🇸
Luke O'Sullivan
Scotland 🏴
Helena Andrade
Portugal 🇵🇹
Laura Vendrell
Spain 🇪🇸
Ali Angco
Canada 🇨🇦
Landon Campbell
USA 🇺🇸
Matt Stenquist
USA 🇺🇸
Carolin Seng
Germany 🇩🇪
Brendan Wu
USA 🇺🇸
Andressa Lombardo
Ireland 🇮🇪
Zander Whitehurst
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Jake Hannington
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Kacee DeWit
USA 🇺🇸
Lilianka Julian
Japan 🇯🇵
Chimmy Kalu
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
John Robinson
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Vid Palčar
Austria 🇦🇹
Ankush Saxena
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Rupali Roy Choudhury
Singapore 🇸🇬
Zander Whitehurst
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Aman Singh
United States 🇺🇸
Charlotte Xiaou Wu
South Africa 🇿🇦
Gina Lee
United States 🇺🇸
Phil Collins
Ireland 🇮🇪
Zoya Nasroollah
Mauritius 🇲🇺
Adam Jennings
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
David Oskarsson
Sweden 🇸🇪
Alessio Schettino
Italy 🇮🇹
Breann Trotter
United States 🇺🇸
Jake Hannington
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Simon Smeraldi
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Preeti Kohli
United States 🇺🇸
Michael Krewson
United States 🇺🇸
Caitlan Louise
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Vanessa van Bleisem
United States 🇺🇸
John da Maia
Portugal 🇵🇹
Jason McLaren
Australia 🇦🇺
Marvin Messenzehl
Germany 🇩🇪
Stephen Dempsey
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Caro Fernandes
Portugal 🇵🇹
Sam Beushausen
Canada 🇨🇦
Nilo Ricas
Ireland 🇮🇪
Mati Martins
Brazil 🇧🇷
Ali Angco
Canada 🇨🇦
Tiff Chan
Canada 🇨🇦
PG Gonni
Canada 🇨🇦
Lili Bustos Linares
United States 🇺🇸
Connor Ashton
Spain 🇪🇸
Andressa Lombardo
Ireland 🇮🇪
Luke O'Sullivan
Scotland 🏴
Rianne van de Rijt
Netherlands 🇳🇱
Flavio Barros
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Liza Heap
Netherlands 🇳🇱
El Fearnley
Spain 🇪🇸
Amy Dempsey
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Belen Moran
Argentina 🇦🇷
LA Drury
United States 🇺🇸
Our values
Community first
Our community have supported us since day one and they mean everything to us. Everyday we foster inclusivity.
Always authentic
We hate shady marketing and believe raw authenticity and transparency is the key to any conversation or way of teaching.
Celebrate diversity
We listen and learn from our diverse community. It's the diversity of our community that makes Memorisely magic.
Stay sustainable
We setup Memorisely as a sustainable company that scales through word of mouth without a penny spent on paid advertising
Positive Energy
We're great believers in emitting positive energy and being a kind human goes a huge way.
Waves before web
If the swell is good, drop everything and surf. Being remote, we encourage our team to treausre the outdoors above anything else
Teach live
Given the speed our industry moves, we're championing teaching live to ensure everything we teach is inline with the latest release
Learn-by-doing
We're a team who teach and learn-by-doing. We prefer to fail fast than plan and never achieve anything.
Our story
If you've got a minute, we'd be grateful if you read our story so you can get to grips with how much work and passion has gone into building Memorisely as a bootstrapped startup
It shouldn't cost $15k+ to learn digital skills
For the past decade, digital design and coding has been taught from classrooms in prime city locations around the world. Students pay a hefty premium (we're talking $15,000+) to learn digital skills from powerpoint presentations in a class of 40+ students.
Syllabus and tools have remained fixed for years and courses are typically taught by inexperienced designers and developers who happen to be available.
Learn-by-doing in live bootcamps and online classes taught by industry leaders
We're trading classrooms in expensive cities for virtual classrooms, allowing anyone in the world to learn together. We're limiting class sizes to fifteen, ensuring every student gets a genuinely personal learning experience. We're pricing our Bootcamps affordably, inline with how education should be.
We're applying our years of experience in designing and developing products remotely to teaching, ensuring students are taught by active designers and developers who are passionate to educate. We're constantly updating our curriculum with the latest remote workflows and tools, ensuring students pickup decent habits and learn what's relevant in the industry today.
Memorisely journey and milestones
Memorisely was founded in 2020 and unlike others who have millions in funding to scale, we've done it as a fully bootstrapped team, without spending a single $ on advertising.
Becoming a remote UX/UI Designer
In 2015, I switched my UX/UI office job in London for a remote UX/UI Design role at Hotjar. The remote experience gave me the opportunity to travel and work from anywhere.
Working Remotely in Sydney
After five years of working remotely, my partner and I moved to Sydney. Following a surfing accident that had me on crutches for 6 months I began sharing educational content on socials
Growing a community of 30,000 Designers
After 3 months of sharing consistently, I grew a community of 30,000 folks around the world on Instagram and arranged the first Memorisely meet-up in Sydney; one designer named Pem showed up.
Memorisely Community Slack
Having conversations 1:1 via Instagram rocked but ultimately it felt like a great opportunity to connect other passionate designers. So, I created a free slack channel for the community to thrive
Memorisely first live Bootcamp
In the height of the pandemic I was shocked that General Assembly and the likes were charging upwards of $20,000 to learn UX/UI Design. So, I created Memorisely first remote Bootcamp and 6 folks joined around the world. Our first student to sign up, Mateen, joined live classes at 3am in Singapore!
Full-time at Memorisely
On October 5th 2020, I took the leap to go full-time on Memorisely and LA Drury joined as our first full-time Community Manager.
Yoga is introduced at Memorisely
With the pandemic causing our students stress, we hired our 3rd team member. Liza joined form the Netherlands to teach Yoga and help students get stretchy together after class.
Design Systems at Memorisely
With the initial UX/UI Design Bootcamp gathering demand and the curriculum evolving with feedback, I introduced a Design System Bootcamp to upskill those in the industry.
Hired our first remote teaching team
With demand exceeding supply, we hired our first remote teaching team who shared their expertise and contributed in improving our curriculums.
Memorisely becomes a team of 10
With a wider range of Bootcamp times available and our community swelling to 10,000+ in slack, we hired more Community Managers around the world and our first Bootcamp Manager to improve the learning experience for students.
Introduced specialised UX/UI Bootcamps
Following feedback requests from our community we launched our Accessible Design, UI Design, and UXR Bootcamp and hired experienced designers in these fields to teach our curriculum live.
Educating 300+ Students a term
In early 2022, we introduced the concept of terms to Memorisely and celebrated over 300+ students learning live with us each term.
First team-retreat to Portugal
Working remotely we felt the need to bring the team together. For our first-team retreat we invited the first ten folks who joined Memorisely to hang out in Portugal for 5 days of cycling, yoga, and surfing!
50 Team Members at Memorisely
Needing to meet the demand of those wanting to learn with Memorisely we continued to hire amazing folks to join our team and we celebrated building our first Dev, Branding, and Web Design teams
Meet-ups in cities around the world
Following the pandemic we invited our team to host micro meet-ups around the world in fun food markets. So far we've held meet-ups in London, Netherlands, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Ottawa, NYC, and Toronto
500,000+ Community
We've never spent a $ on advertising and have always championed our value of authenticity. Following a lotta creative effort from the team our community reached 500,000+ on socials
Introduction of Coding Bootcamps
Given our community began as designers, we felt it was a natural next step to connect them with developers. So, our team got to work creating live coding Bootcamps
Product Management Bootcamps
With a lotta requests for a Product Management Bootcamp we formed our first curriculum and started onboarding students to begin learning in early 2023
On-demand classes
Recognising that our community can't all learn live, we built a web application to make it easy for designers and developers to learn with us anywhere, anytime
Second team retreat in Lake District
Our second team retreat was an epic opportunity to bring our Bootcamp, Product, and Community team togetehr for hikes and fireside brainstorms
Ready to learn?
As you'll have gathered, we're open and honest and would love to have you join our next Live Bootcamp