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Accelerate Your Product Design Career

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5 Weeks

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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

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Mid-weight Designers


You're ready to go beyond craft-focused design. It's time to upskill and take on strategic senior roles

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Start-up Sole Designer


Gain confidence in decision-making, master facilitation, and maximise your influence as the design advocate

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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.

What do people say about my delivery?

        Jac's approach to measuring design value and communicating with stakeholders is inspiring. She has taught me to analyse challenges beyond design. One quote from her that has shifted how I solve problems since the beginning of my career is "a great designer always thinks like a business designer".
Man Hin Ma 🇦🇺

Man Hin Ma 🇦🇺

Product Designer | Eucalyptus
        I see Jacalin as a role model for designers - always learning, curious and passionate. She generously shared her knowledge, resources and inspiration to help me grow into a more impactful designer.
Michelle Ou  🇦🇺

Michelle Ou  🇦🇺

Human-Centred Designer | eHealth NSW | Inclusive Design Practitioner | Design Mentor
        Jacalin is just the absolute sweetest human being, but also with a brilliant mind! She was able to help me with my weird founding designer problems. She has specific insights that were actionable and authentic. I love that she doesn't sugarcoat. 
Amber KB Wilson 🇺🇸

Amber KB Wilson 🇺🇸

Senior UX Designer | Comcas
        I loved learning from Jac. She was an absolute legend - making sure our class was always engaged and went out of her way to make the class time productive, fun and of course very relevant. Jac also kept the learning pace at a good rate. Can’t thank her enough for such a valuable learning experience!!
Aneka Reid 🇦🇺

Aneka Reid 🇦🇺

UX Manager | My Muscle Chef

Meet your instructor

Jacalin Ding

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.

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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

Course modules

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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A pattern of wavy dots
Join an upcoming cohort

Accelerate Your Product Design Career

MAY 2023

$895 USD

Dates

May 19 - June 17, 2023

Application Deadline

May 19, 2023

$895 USD

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