Accelerate your Design Career in 2025

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Accelerate your Design Career in 2025

Hosted by Ryan Scott

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What you'll learn

Understand the business forces changing the Design industry

Learn how forces like Economics, Entrepreneurship, & Strategy are reshaping design careers & job opportunities.

Avoid career traps set by the current market

Designers are being pushed towards jobs that may undermine their larger career goals. Learn to spot & avoid these traps.

Build a strategy to move your career goals forward

A good strategy will help you get ahead. Learn how I've recently helped designers land raises, promotions, & new jobs.

Why this topic matters

The design industry is changing more rapidly than most designers can keep up, leaving designers at all levels uncertain about their careers. As one of my students put it, not having a career strategy “is not an option anymore.” Today, I’ll share lessons from my MBA to explain what’s changing about the Design industry, why it’s been turbulent, and how to achieve your career goals in today’s market.

You'll learn from

Ryan Scott

Design leader · Airbnb, DoorDash, Salesforce · Berkeley MBA

Ryan Scott is a multidisciplinary designer who has led cross-functional teams to launch some of today’s most recognizable products.

As an early employee at DoorDash, he spearheaded launches of live order tracking, mobile group orders, remote driver training, and the food photography program. Ryan's work dramatically impacted Airbnb, where he influenced most parts of the product through major redesigns of checkout flow, messaging platform, search platform, & mobile website.

After earning his MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Ryan now trains designers on the business skills to get ahead in their careers.

Go deeper with a course

Describing the ROI of Design

Ryan Scott