Product Design Fundamentals
Nadia Kim
Former Staff Product Designer, Stripe
Nadia builds the main cohort arc and teaches product framing, critique language, and portfolio narrative.
Lectures Mondays
Instructor roster
Practitioners who critique current work, not retired frameworks.
Atlas instructors still work close to product teams, systems, prototypes, and hiring rooms. The roster page makes credentials, focus, and availability visible.
Senior Design Systems
Eli Warren
Design Systems Director, Figma alum
Eli teaches token architecture, contribution culture, and how to defend system work in rooms that care about speed.
Critiques Thursdays
Design Engineering
Asha Patel
Principal Design Engineer, Vercel alum
Asha helps designers cross the prototype gap without pretending they need to become full-time engineers.
Prototype reviews
Portfolio Studio and Coaching
Marcus Bell
Former Head of Design, Linear
Marcus reads portfolios like a hiring manager and turns vague career anxiety into specific next moves.
1:1 sessions
Teaching rhythm
The instructor job is split across lecture, critique, office hours, and career translation.
Monday
Live lecture
A 90-minute practitioner-led class with examples from current product teams.
Tuesday-Wednesday
Assignment work
Students spend 4-6 hours shaping critique-ready work inside the weekly brief.
Thursday
Live critique
Half the cohort presents; everyone learns from the work on screen.
Friday
Open instructor Zoom
Drop in for unblockers, portfolio questions, and feedback before the weekend.
Critique standard
Rigorous enough to change the work. Specific enough to act on.
Atlas critique is anchored to decisions: what the work is trying to do, what risk it carries, and what action should happen next.