Data Informed Design
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Create evidence-based design recommendations, Show the Business Impact of UX, and create design portfolios that attract employers.
Data Informed Design
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Create evidence-based design recommendations, Show the Business Impact of UX, and create design portfolios that attract employers.
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Course overview
Feeling ignored by stakeholders? Are your design presentations falling flat?
Doing good design work is only half the job. The other half is about getting people to agree that it's good. Unfortunately, that's where you might be struggling.
This course is designed to address the most common challenges UX Designers and Managers have communicating their work:
- Handling opinionated stakeholders
- Being overlooked or ignored
- Dealing with teams that only want quick fixes
- Not being able to showcase the value of your work
- Being unable to translate design solutions to non-designers
- Getting stakeholder buy-in for large, underlying user problems
- Not knowing how to talk about projects in design portfolios
If you're struggling with these issues, Data-informed Design can help. Turning a "Design Opinion" into an Insight backed by Data is a shortcut to effective design communication.
By integrating "Just Enough Data" into your design process, you can articulate and demonstrate how usability fixes can impact the businesses' bottom line.
If you want to influence decision-makers, show the impact design has on business, or create design portfolios that employers want to read, this course is for you.
I will provide you with real-life examples from leading Product-Led Growth Initiatives with Executives, and actionable strategies I've refined from mentoring businesses, instructors, and students in Data-Informed Design.
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Training your team? Email Kai for bulk pricing, private cohorts, and a personalized course: kaijzen@gmail.com
Who is this course for
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Experienced UX Designers who want to solve user's problems, but don't have stakeholder buy-in for their ideas.
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Design Leaders and Managers who must influence founders, executives, and other leaders to make the right decisions for their users
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Designers who have done good work on design projects, but may have no idea how to create an effective design portfolio.
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Designers who work in complex fields (like Healthtech, Fintech, or AI) who want to unlock the power of data
What you’ll get out of this course
Data-Informed frameworks that showcase the value of your design work
If you've ever struggled to justify the "ROI" of UX, Data-Informed Design can help. You'll learn several frameworks that help you incorporate Data into your Design process to persuade others and showcase the value of your work.
Understand how to align design recommendations with business outcomes
One of the major issues designers face is that their team may not understand the impact certain design decisions have. You'll learn how to align design recommendations with business outcomes to have a greater impact.
Communication templates to help implement Data-Informed Design
Data-Informed Design is a team effort, and you may not know how to talk with your Product Manager about it. You'll receive templates for sending e-mails, interviewing stakeholders, and more to implement Data-Informed Design in your organization.
Craft 5-minute stories, compelling narratives you can use to persuade your team (no creative writing experience needed)
Facts aren't enough: you need to learn how to tell UX stories to have the greatest impact. You'll learn frameworks to turn insights into UX stories, no creative writing experience needed.
Personalized 1:1 guidance
Each organization faces different Data-Informed Design challenges. Through exercises, live workshops, and Q&A, get the feedback, advice, and tactics you need to apply the course content to your situation.
Create Design Portfolios that get employers interested in you
The Data-Informed Frameworks and 5-minute stories that you'll use on the job are also the perfect way to create a design portfolio that recruiters and interviewers want to read. You'll learn how to take what you learn and apply it to your design portfolio.
This course includes
7 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
131 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
29 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.
Data Informed Design
Course syllabus
Week 1
Jul 15—Jul 21
Events
- Jul
15
Introducing Data-Informed Design, and why it's important
Introducing Data-Informed Design, and why it's important
Mon, Jul 15, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC
- Jul
19
Workshop 1: Refining your User Research into Insights through Data
Workshop 1: Refining your User Research into Insights through Data
Fri, Jul 19, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC
Modules
- Intro: Why Data Informed Design matters, and how designers can use itIntro: Why Data Informed Design matters, and how designers can use it4 Lessons
- Design something businesses and users care about: align and track product metricDesign something businesses and users care about: align and track product metric24 Lessons • 5 Projects
Week 2
Jul 22—Jul 28
Events
- Jul
22
Workshop 2: Understanding the Data Story Framework
Workshop 2: Understanding the Data Story Framework
Mon, Jul 22, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC
- Jul
26
Workshop 3: Building a 5-minute story around your data.
Workshop 3: Building a 5-minute story around your data.
Fri, Jul 26, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC
Modules
- Understand and analyzing: Working with dataUnderstand and analyzing: Working with data27 Lessons • 7 Projects
Week 3
Jul 29—Aug 3
Events
- Jul
29
Workshop 4: Creating Data Visualizations to make your points more shareable
Workshop 4: Creating Data Visualizations to make your points more shareable
Mon, Jul 29, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC
- Aug
2
Final Project review: Tying everything together into a Data-Informed Design package
Final Project review: Tying everything together into a Data-Informed Design package
Fri, Aug 2, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM UTC
Modules
- UX Storytelling: we hear facts, but feel storiesUX Storytelling: we hear facts, but feel stories47 Lessons • 8 Projects
- How Data Visualization engages teams and makes your story viralHow Data Visualization engages teams and makes your story viral26 Lessons • 8 Projects
- Putting your Data Storytelling togetherPutting your Data Storytelling together3 Lessons • 1 Project
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Meet your instructor
Christopher Kai Wong
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.
Course schedule
3-5 hours per week
Mondays and Fridays
11:00 AM - 12:30 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
Read my most popular Medium article for free
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Learning is better with cohorts
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
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