Skip the portfolio.
Ship the growth.

Nofolios is a 12 week remote residency for final year design students and designers with 0 to 2 years of work. We don't ask for case studies. We ask for shipped work. You pay ₹0 until the offer letter lands in your inbox.

Apply to Cohort 01

This isn't a brochure.
It's a build file.

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We rebuilt the design school. From the offer letter, backwards.

Three things every other program got wrong. Three things we refused to ship with.

The portfolio is broken.

Behance has enough redesigns of Spotify. We send you a live company brief instead. You solve it. That's the application. That's the portfolio. That's the only thing a hiring manager actually reads.

The fee is gatekeeping.

Most design schools charge ₹3 lakh before you've opened a Figma file. We charge ₹0 till you have a job. If we don't place you, you don't pay. The contract is one page. Plain English. No fine print.

The syllabus is a museum.

Most design schools still teach print-era theory and one variant of Material. We teach growth design and design building. The two skills startups will actually pay for in 2026. Nothing else makes the cut.

12 weeks. 4 phases. 1 offer letter.

Every week ends with a ship. Not a lecture. Not a quiz. Something a senior designer at a real company would tear apart in a real review. That's how we know it counts.

Growth Design Foundations

Base

6 Lessons

6 days

Design Builder

Base

4 Lessons

4 days

Live Company Briefs

Base

5 Lessons

5 days

Placement Sprint

PRO

6 Lessons

6 days

The Community Room

PRO

Lifetime access to the room

An offer letter. The only deliverable that matters

Ultra

3 Sessions

3 days

Join 600+ designers, mentors, and hiring partners

I never built a Behance. I shipped one live brief, and that brief got me the interview. The offer came nine weeks later.

Aarav Menon

Product Designer, fintech (Series A)

I paid ₹0 the entire residency. My first payment came after my first salary. That's the only reason I could even apply.

Diya Reddy

Designer, consumer SaaS

The reviews were brutal in the best way. A senior designer tore my work apart on a Friday night. I shipped a better version by Monday.

Kabir Shah

Growth Designer, D2C

I came in with one year at a tiny agency and zero confidence. I left with an offer at a Series B startup.

Rhea Iyer

Designer, seed startup

The AI workflows alone 10x'd my output. I demo them in interviews and watch the room change.

Vivaan Kapoor

Design Builder, fintech

The community didn't end at week 12. A warm intro from the room is how I got my second job, not just my first.

Ishaan Gupta

Designer, Series C startup

Our story

India had no growth design.
So five of us built it.

A few years ago the five of us were scattered across different startups in Bangalore, all hitting the same wall. We could design beautiful screens, but the founders we worked with didn't want pretty, they wanted growth: more signups, better retention, revenue that actually moved. That discipline, growth design, was everywhere in Silicon Valley and almost nowhere in India. No course taught it. No studio practiced it by name. We learned it

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How you pay: the Income Share Agreement, in plain English.

No loans. No upfront fees. You pay nothing until you land a real job, then a small slice of your salary, and it stops for good at ₹2.4 lakh. Example: if you're hired at ₹9 lakh a year, you'd pay about ₹11,250 a month, and you stop the moment you've paid ₹2.4 lakh in total. Upfront, you pay ₹0.

One simple deal

₹0 upfront. Then 15% of your salary after you're hired, capped at ₹2.4 lakh.

₹0 to apply, join, and train, all 12 weeks

You pay only after you're hired and earning over ₹6 lakh a year

15% of salary for 24 months, capped at ₹2.4 lakh total

No job within 6 months? The ISA voids and you owe ₹0

Take the assessment

The questions you were about to Google

Every question a sceptical applicant was about to type into Google. Answered before you leave the page.

How does the ISA actually work?

How are you different from Pesto, Masai, Scaler?

Do I really not need a portfolio?

Is it fully remote? How many hours a week?

What if I don't get placed?

Blog

We don't teach design history. We teach what ships.

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