Go Beyond Opinions: How to use Data and Design to Build Better Products

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4 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Design Better Products Faster, Integrate AI into your Design Process, and Showcase the Value to Design to Employers

Clients include

Designlab Learning
Northrop Grumman
Social Security
Intuit
National Cancer Institute

Course overview

When was the last time the final product looked like your design?

How many of your great designs collect dust because your recommendations get shot down?


Creating great designs is only half the battle. The other half is communicating the value of your work to others.


How can you tackle the most common communication challenges designers face, like:


 • Getting your team to move beyond quick fixes

 • Showing the impact of your design decisions

 • Communicating design value effectively to non-designers

 • Getting teams to approve your recommendations

 • Building persuasive design portfolios that attract employers?


The most practical way is to use Data to back up your Design.


Here's what you'll learn:


Week 1: Design what businesses need

Spend an hour to save a month's work. Understand the business's needs and how design decisions affect business outcomes, and you'll save weeks of miscommunication and rejection.


Week 2: Integrate AI into your Design processes

Rather than learning a single AI tool, you'll learn the fundamentals of integrating AI into your design process. This helps you manage knowledge and work more productively.


Week 3: Don't present information: present insights

You might have remarkable user findings, but it doesn't matter if no one acts on them. Refine user findings using frameworks employed by Netflix, Meta, and Airbnb to harness to drive action.


Week 4: Learn Data Visualization, a powerful skill that drives action

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.



These aren't theoretical frameworks; they're practical tips that I've used to lead multi-million dollar Product-Led Growth Initiatives.


I've also successfully led these initiatives in low UX maturity environments, where I've worked with stakeholders that didn't understand what UX was.


What You'll Get Out of the Course

* A practical, step-by-step process for working with data and refining findings into actionable insights

* Real-world case studies from Meta, Nike, Netflix, and history demonstrating successful data-informed design strategies

* Hands-on experience creating effective data visualizations and UX stories that drive change

* Templates and frameworks I've personally used to lead multi-million dollar Product-Led Growth initiatives


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.

Who is this course for

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Senior/Lead 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 have ineffective design portfolios that get ignored by employers.

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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

Design better products, faster (so you don't have to stay late)

Spend an hour to save a month's worth of work. You'll learn how to ask questions that uncover exactly what Product teams want and need from Designers.

Show the value of design on business outcomes (without guessing at ROI)

If you've ever struggled to justify the "ROI" of UX, Data-Informed Design can help. Follow Step-by-step frameworks that spell out how design decisions translate into real-world outcomes

A library of fill-in-the-blank templates and scripts to work with difficult stakeholders

If your teams won't listen, I'll provide fill-in-the-blank templates I've used at UX-hostile organizations to make a real difference.

Turn user observations into insights that businesses want to act on

You've probably seen some critical insights during user testing, but they've fallen flat. You'll learn how to present your research in ways that drive action.

Up to 2 hours 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.

Tell UX stories in your design portfolio that get employers interested

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.

This course includes

12 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

74 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

8 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.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Jun 2—Jun 8

    Jun

    2

    Introducing Data-Informed Design, and the importance of aligning with the business

    Mon 6/24:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Want to Design Projects Much Faster? Define What Matters to Businesses

    10 items

    Jun

    5

    Workshop 2: How to track the right metrics, and coming up with hypotheses

    Thu 6/54:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Show your value: Tracking Design's impact on Product Outcomes

    9 items

    Jun

    6

    Office Hours

    Fri 6/64:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 2

Jun 9—Jun 15

    Jun

    11

    Workshop 3: Building a second brain with AI

    Wed 6/114:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Fundamentals of AI: Creating a second brain

    8 items

    Jun

    9

    Workshop 4: Defining the right problem in a way your audience understands

    Mon 6/94:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Iterating with Data: Defining what needs to change, and why

    10 items

    Jun

    13

    Office Hours

    Fri 6/134:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 3

Jun 16—Jun 22

    Jun

    19

    Workshop 5: Analyzing user insights and finding evidence for your recommendations

    Thu 6/194:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Analyze Data to create Data-informed design recommendations

    14 items

    Jun

    16

    Workshop 6: Understanding what your Data Visualization is about

    Mon 6/164:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Turn your Insights into Visuals

    9 items

    Jun

    20

    Office Hours

    Fri 6/204:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 4

Jun 23—Jun 29

    Data Visualization: a powerful tool that highlights the need for change

    9 items

    Jun

    23

    Workshop 7: Craft your Perfect Data Visualization Hook

    Mon 6/238:00 AM—9:00 AM (UTC)

    UX Storytelling: How to persuade your team to take action

    13 items

    Jun

    26

    Workshop 8: Building a UX Story through frameworks

    Thu 6/264:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Jun

    27

    Office Hours 4

    Fri 6/274:00 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

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What students are saying

Meet your instructor

Christopher Kai Wong

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.

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Course schedule

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

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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

Frequently Asked Questions

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Join an upcoming cohort

Go Beyond Opinions: How to use Data and Design to Build Better Products

June Cohort

$599

Dates

June 2—29, 2025

Payment Deadline

June 1, 2025
Get reimbursed

$599

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4 Weeks