The Strategic Designer: How to Use Data to Get a Seat at the Strategy Table
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Stop being the 'Figma person.' Learn to speak data, influence executives, and become the strategic partner every team needs.
The Strategic Designer: How to Use Data to Get a Seat at the Strategy Table
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Stop being the 'Figma person.' Learn to speak data, influence executives, and become the strategic partner every team needs.
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Course overview
Tired of being excluded from strategy meetings while others make decisions?
You're talented. Your ideas are solid. So why are you still excluded from the meetings that matter?
Because you don't speak the language that gets you invited to the strategy table.
While you're perfecting wireframes, others are speaking data.
While you're talking user experience, they're talking business impact. And while you're waiting for recognition, they're getting promoted.
Sound familiar? It's because you haven't learned to translate design into the metrics executives actually care about.
If you can't connect your work to business outcomes:
You'll stay on the sidelines: watching PMs and others make strategic decisions about your designs
Your best ideas will get shelved: because stakeholders don't understand their business value
You'll hit a career ceiling: stuck as the "Figma person" while others advance to leadership
Your job becomes vulnerable: especially as AI commoditizes basic design skills and companies cut "nice-to-have" roles
The harsh truth? In 2025, companies aren't hiring designers who just make things pretty.
They're hiring strategic partners who can prove ROI.
As one Design Leader with 20+ years told me: "It's hard to justify a team member's existence if they've been in meetings for 3 months and nobody knows their name. The person who's listening and understanding the business - that person gets it. There's value in collaborating and supporting team success, not just doing pretty pixels and UI."
When you learn to speak data and connect design to business outcomes, you'll:
Get invited to strategy meetings: because executives value your insights, not just your pixels
Bypass office politics: with concrete numbers that skeptical stakeholders can't argue with
Become indispensable: by proving your designs drive measurable business results
Accelerate your career: earning the promotions and respect you deserve
This intensive 4-week program transforms excluded designers into strategic business partners.
Limited to 15 students for personalized 1:1 coaching.
Training Your Team? Email kai@datainformeddesign.online for bulk pricing and personalized options.
Who is this course for
01
Designers who want to use data to bypass office politics and prove their value immediately
02
Designers tired of watching 'strategic' roles like PMs get promoted while their insights are ignored
03
Designers in low-UX maturity environments where relationship-building isn't enough
04
Mid-level designers whose great ideas get dismissed by skeptical executives
What you'll walk away with
Data-Informed frameworks that make even skeptical stakeholders approve your designs
Have clear frameworks to immediately show your design impact in meetings, presentations, performance reviews, and interviews.
ROI experiments that prove your design value in business outcomes, not opinions
Stop talking in hypotheticals and opinions. Show experiments that prove your design value in business outcomes
Templates to turn any design project into a compelling business case study
Not sure how to talk about your design work in an effective way? You'll get templates that provide you with step-by-step instructions
Scripts to present user research that gets immediate executive buy-in
Not sure what to say when talking with decision-makers or executives? You'll get scripts to help you in crucial situations
60 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.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Christopher Kai Wong in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
80 lessons • 8 projects
Week 1
📚 Workshop 1 Lessons: Design what businesses need
📚 Workshop 2 Lessons: Track Design impact on Business outcomes
🔍Extended Learning and Templates
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Bonus
Book a 1:1 call with me
BONUS: Get a private consultation from top design leaders around the world
What students are saying
Meet your instructor
Christopher Kai Wong
Christopher Kai Wong
Top Design Writer on Medium (325+ design articles). Data-Informed Design Expert.
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
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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This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
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