Accelerate Your Product Design Career
Accelerate Your Product Design Career
5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Transform into a strategic and influential designer. Learn the skills that will forever change the way you contribute as a designer.
Hosted by
Jacalin Ding
Product Design Leader | Coached 350+ Designers | Top-NPS-ranked GA instructor
Course overview
Stop being a feature design machine. Start impacting businesses with design
So you have the burning desire to step up and crave driving a bigger impact as a designer. Perhaps there's a lack of guidance to show you where and how to add impact. You feel powerless and wonder what it takes to become an influential and strategic senior designer👇🏼
Designers with the most success in our industry are business-aware.
If you think narrowly and talk about "design and design only" without factoring in business growth and understanding how to share the value of design, your impact will stay shallow.
Tap into the strategies and success frameworks I've used to grow my own career, as well as mentoring and coaching 350+ designers and design teams.
This course will give you the skills and knowledge necessary to take on more senior roles. You'll learn the keys to unblocking your design career with the knowledge that will change the way you contribute as a designer forever.
Commitment: 4 weeks. 2-3 hours/week.
Who is this course for
01
Junior Designers
Set yourself up for success and fast-track your career progress with fundamental strategic knowledge
02
Mid-weight Designers
You're ready to go beyond craft-focused design. It's time to upskill and take on strategic senior roles
03
Start-up Sole Designer
Gain confidence in decision-making, master facilitation, and maximise your influence as the design advocate
04
NOT for Aspiring Designers
This course will NOT cover hands-on craft skills or basic design thinking knowledge.
What you’ll get out of this course
Develop business acumen and become a savvy strategic designer
You will learn to understand and communicate business language through design. Feel empowered to make better-informed decisions.
Master facilitation techniques to influence design in the business
Learn the facilitation golden nuggets I've collected over the years. Gain the confidence to lead cross-functional design discussions, and effectively communicate design ideas to stakeholders.
Turn user research insights into compelling stories and get buy-in
Learn to apply minimum viable research frameworks to guide your designs. Connect business goals with research insights and become a persuasive storyteller when sharing design directions.
Measure your impact to maximise promotion opportunities
You'll learn how to set goals for professional development, and bring your managers with you on the journey to measure and evaluate the impact of your work.
Bonus: Live Q&A with industry leaders
Opportunity to tap into the leaders in the industry with your burning questions on our Live Q&A sessions. Get an insider look into how they work with their teams.
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Meet your instructor
Jacalin Ding
Principal Product Designer // Educator // Mentor // Speaker
Jacalin Ding is a seasoned product design leader and business strategist with more than 10 years of experience in building design teams and turning big product ideas into successful products.
She has worked with start-ups, enterprises, and agencies in various locations, including New York, Vancouver, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney.
Since 2019, Jacalin has been a design educator. She has taught and mentored more than 350+ designers and facilitated 50+ workshops that impacted more than 10,000 creative problem solvers worldwide.
Join an upcoming cohort
Accelerate Your Product Design Career
MAY 2023
$895 USD
Dates
May 19 - June 17, 2023
Application Deadline
May 19, 2023
Course modules
01
Develop business Acumen and Become a Strategic Designer
- Understanding key business terminologies and how they relate to product design
- Learn to connect design impacts with the business viability to gain buy in
02
Unblock Research Feedback Loops, Build Data-Backed Design Rationales to Gain Stakeholder Buy-in
- Learn to expand your research toolkit that supports your design rationales
- Deliver your design directions with confidence by applying effective storytelling techniques
03
Build Facilitation Skills and Influential Advocacy
- Learn the importance of active listening and effective communication
- Practise facilitation skills by planning and leading ideation workshops with actionable frameworks to follow
04
Measuring Impact and Leaping to Strategic Product Design
- Learn how to measure design impact and track progress using data
- Understand what it takes to step up into a senior strategic position
- Define your career goals and identify milestones to achieve them
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Bonus Q&A with Industry Leaders
(Optional)
Live Q&A with 2 industry experts
Course schedule
3 hours per week
Saturday classes
10am-12pm AEST
Live courses with Jacalin.
Cohort collaborations & discussions.
Wednesday weekly review
5:00pm - 6:00pm AEST
Once a week live critiques and feedback. Get your burning questions answered.
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
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
Accelerate Your Product Design Career
MAY 2023
$895 USD
Dates
May 19 - June 17, 2023
Application Deadline
May 19, 2023