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4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Get Executives to See the Value of Design, Buy-in to Your Ideas, and Advance your Design Career
4.6 (7)
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Get Executives to See the Value of Design, Buy-in to Your Ideas, and Advance your Design Career
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Course overview
Many talented Designers struggle for one reason:
Your designs don’t speak for themselves.
Your designs might be good (or even great), but if you can't convince your stakeholders, it doesn't matter.
Great UX will be overlooked, deprioritized, or even dismissed in favor of what's easier in the moment.
Sound familiar? The reason is simple: You aren't tying your design to business outcomes. If executives (and other decision-makers) don't see the business value of your work, they won't invest in it.
If you struggle to communicate the business impact of your designs:
• Your best ideas will get deprioritized or shelved, limiting the impact you have to make a difference
• You’ll have to constantly justify your role and fight for recognition, while others (who 'speak business') will get promotions and raises
• Your career will hit a wall, because businesses only invest in designers that demonstrate measurable outcomes
• Your job security becomes uncertain, because your contributions aren't directly tied to business results.
But what if you could speak to the value of design? Imagine instead walking into meetings knowing how to persuade your team to take action.
Picture decision-makers nodding as you present data on how design decisions impact business outcomes.
The secret? You need Data to back up your Intuition.
As one design leader said, "The Difference Between Good and Great Designers is that Great Ones can Use Data to Sell your Ideas."
In 2025, top companies aren't hiring Good Designers. They're hiring Great Ones, that know how to communicate how design impacts business outcomes.
Design Professionals who can do that jump to the top of the priority list.
When you become a designer that communicates how design affects business outcomes, you'll:
• Consistently secure stakeholder buy-in, making your design initiatives a top priority.
• Have Influence with executives and cross-functional partners who value clear ROI and measurable outcomes.
• Accelerate your career growth by showcasing to businesses why your designs are valuable
• Become indispensable to your organization as a leader who can speak clearly to both user and business needs
• Transform from overlooked designer to strategic partner who shapes critical business decisions.
This cohort-based course will provide you with the frameworks, skills, and tools to persuasively connect Design work with desired business outcomes.
Here's exactly what you'll master:
Week 1: Design what businesses need
Spend an hour to save a month's work. Understand what the business needs from designers, and learn how to identify how design decisions affect business outcomes.
Week 2: Don't present information: present insights
You might have remarkable user findings, but it doesn't matter if no one acts on them. Turn your findings into actionable insights using frameworks employed by Netflix and Meta to harness to drive action.
Week 3: Integrate AI into your Design processes
AI is a powerful tool, especially when you know how to work with Data. You'll learn how to super-charge your Design process with AI without losing your team's trust.
Week 4: Tell a UX story that persuades your team to act
Working with Data allows you to use the powerful tools of Data visualization and Storytelling to make a real difference. No creative writing experience is needed.
Investing in these skills means:
• Ensuring your UX work is consistently valued, prioritized, and understood in your organization
• Becoming an influential designer, that decision-makers seek out to help drive critical business decisions
• Accelerating your career growth in a tough job market by speaking to what businesses really need.
Why This Course Matters
In today's competitive landscape, the most successful Designers aren’t necessarily those with the best visual or technical skills. They’re the ones who clearly speak the language of business outcomes.
If you're ready to design projects faster, show how design affects business outcomes, and persuade your team to take action, you should take this course.
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Training Your Team?
Email kai@datainformeddesign.online for bulk pricing and personalized course options.
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Senior-level UX designers who frequently need to justify their decisions to PMs, engineers, and executives.
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Design Leaders/Managers who must consistently persuade executives and other stakeholders to buy-in to their ideas.
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Designers seeking career growth who know their professional advancement relies on demonstrating clear business impact.
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Designers building persuasive portfolios to clearly demonstrate measurable business impact to potential employers.
Stop being the "make it pretty person". Start having an impact with design.
Have clear frameworks to immediately show your design impact in meetings, presentations, performance reviews, and interviews.
Consistently get buy-in to create better products
Translate what you find, from talking with users, into the exact language and techniques to secure stakeholder buy-in and approval quickly and consistently.
Learn leadership skills businesses want from designers
Become an irreplaceable UX leader to your team means gaining influence, trust, and visibility in your organization.
Have a portfolio of work that showcases design value effectively
You'll learn a proven approach to demonstrating design value in your portfolio, LinkedIn profile, and future job interviews.
Super-charge your UX process with AI, without losing creative control
The best way to use AI, as a designer, isn't to learn a new tool. It's to improve your existing design process.
Up to 90 minutes of 1:1 Data-Informed Design coaching
You won't just learn theoretical concepts. You'll learn how to apply it to your work with 1:1 coaching with a Data-Informed Design expert.
12 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
78 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
7 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
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Senior Product Designer at Nanthealth. Top Design Writer on Medium (52k following). Data-Informed Design Expert. Designed for 1m+ users.
Kai has over a decade of UX experience in data-centric fields like Healthcare, Federal, and B2B/SaaS UX. His designs have impacted millions of vulnerable populations, including patients, senior citizens, and medical professionals.
He has often worked as UX team of one, communicating the value of UX to teams and organizations that may not fully understand. As a result, he has learned better, more effective communication by understand effective data-focused viewpoints.
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3-5 hours per week
Mondays and Thursday
12:00-1:00 PM EST
I will have live lectures with Q&A, reviewing this week's lessons. These will also be where I review student's exercise and provide live feedback
Pre-recorded lectures
1-2 hours per week
In these lectures, I'll dive into the specifics around Data, Narrative, Visuals, and more. This will be a more detailed videos on the stuff I cover live on Mondays and Fridays
Weekly projects and exercises
2 hours per week
These exercises, paired with the lecture, will help you practice the concepts you learn from lectures
Learn how to turn down requests from executives without running into trouble.
Many designers don't know how to say no, which leads to trouble. When an executive comes by with a half-baked idea, it isn't easy to know what to say.
This is a script that I've used to politely refuse requests with data without running into issues getting fired.
Want to know how you can use it in with your work? Enroll today.
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Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Join an upcoming cohort
June Cohort
$599
Dates
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