4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Stop being the 'Figma person.' Learn to measure design impact, translate design into business value, and become a strategic partner.
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Stop being the 'Figma person.' Learn to measure design impact, translate design into business value, and become a strategic partner.
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Course overview
You're talented. Your designs solve real problems.
So why does leadership treat you like the "Figma person"?
Because you're not translating your design work into terms your business understands.
Your stakeholders don't see the connection between your thoughtful design decisions and the business outcomes they care about.
When you present user research findings, they're trying to figure out how to make multi-million dollar decisions around it.
When you present design recommendations, they want to know why it's worth the time and resources.
It's not that your design work doesn't create business value.
It's that you're not measuring and communicating that value in terms your audience understands.
Without this ability:
You'll stay excluded from strategic decisions: You'll watch as others make bad user decisions while you're forced to execute on bad ideas.
Your best ideas will get dismissed: Because stakeholders don't see the business impact until it's too late
You'll remain the "Figma person": When you're seen as tactical rather than strategic, you get treated (and paid) like a commodity
Your expertise gets undervalued: As leadership questions the ROI of design work and whether you can be replaced by AI
The solution isn't working harder. It's learning to work with the data your business already has.
Every other department leader collects data to measure progress, quantify outcomes, and justify their value.
That's how they're seen as a strategic partner instead of a commodity.
Why not you?
As multiple Design Leaders have told me, "The difference between okay and great designers is that great ones bring data and a package that helps sell the idea they've created."
This course is how you create that package.
When you master Data-Informed Design, you'll:
Get invited to strategy meetings: because you bring measurable insights about how design impacts business outcomes
Gain immediate credibility: Using data from tools your company already has to generate actionable business insights
Become a strategic partner: by proving your designs drive business results with rapid hypothesis validation
Earn the recognition you deserve: as someone who understands both design and business, and can leverage AI to communicate value at the speed leadership expects
You don't need an MBA or advanced analytics training.
You need a systematic framework to measure design impact, validate your hypotheses from multiple stakeholder perspectives, and translate it all into compelling business narratives.
This 4-week program transforms overlooked designers into data-informed strategic partners:
Week 1: Align design with Product Goals and Track the Value of Design Work
Week 2: Define the current problem that matters to audiences, and turn it into a Data Visualization
Week 3: Validate your proposed Design Solution from UX and PM perspectives using AI
Week 4: Package everything into persuasive 5-minute business presentations
Limited to 15 students for personalized 1:1 coaching.
Training Your Team? Email kai@datainformeddesign.online for bulk pricing and personalized cohorts.
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Designers who want to use data to bypass office politics and prove their value immediately
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Designers tired of watching 'strategic' roles like PMs get promoted while their insights are ignored
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Designers in low-UX maturity environments where relationship-building isn't enough
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Mid-level designers whose great ideas get dismissed by skeptical executives
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.
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.
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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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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
White paper: How 15 Global Design Leaders are Thriving in 2025
I interviewed 15 Global Design Leaders about how to thrive in 2025, when Designers are increasingly asked to show their value.
How are some designers thriving, and what they doing? You can read about it here.
Ready to learn how to apply these patterns of success at work? Enroll in the course to learn how.
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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
September Cohort
$599
Dates
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October Cohort
$599
Dates
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November Cohort
$599
Dates
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$599
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4 Weeks