🗓️ Next bootcamp: Saturday 28 Sept
Mastering Business Acumen in Design
Join this half-day business acumen bootcamp to level up your business confidence, and learn to connect design ideas to business outcomes.
✅ Understand key business terminology and how it relates to product design
✅ Learn to connect design impacts with the business viability to gain buy-in
✅ Learn to apply business strategy framework to guide design decisions
Designers from top companies have up-skilled from Jacalin's courses since 2018
Designers with the most success in the industry are business-aware.
As competition heats up in the design talent pool, it's clear that designers who grasp business intricacies have a significant edge in delivering true value.
Focusing solely on user experience is no longer enough to prove a designer's value. Imagine a well-designed product that fails to generate revenue.
When a designer becomes business-aware, they gain:
✅ Confidence to secure stakeholder buy-in
✅ Ability to prioritize design decisions with thoughtful rationales
✅ Value as a business partner, increasing their promotion prospects
If you have the burning desire to step up and crave driving a bigger impact as a designer, this workshop is for you!
Who is this course for?
Mid-level Designers
You're ready to go beyond craft-focused design responsibilities. You're ready to tackle strategic senior roles.
Senior Designers
Build a strategic business mindset with proven frameworks. Create impact to become an influential business partner.
Sole Designers
Gain confidence in decision-making. Learn to influence business decisions as a strategic consultant.
🗓️ Saturday, 28 September (20pp max capacity)
Investment: AUD $380pp
You can expense the cost of this education course 👉🏼 here's how
Tap into the strategies and success frameworks I've used to grow my career
There's a clear knowledge gap in traditional design education. I spent the first half of my career as a craft-focused designer, making numerous mistakes. The second half was dedicated to learning and building my business—a real-life MBA experience. The business building journey has transformed how I design and communicate the value of design ever since.
Tap into the strategies and success frameworks I've used to grow my own career and allowed me to mentor and coach 350+ designers and design teams.
This workshop will give you the system, frameworks, and hands-on collaboration opportunities needed to elevate your skills.
Improving your business acumen will not only make you a more influential designer but will also change the way you value design as an expertise forever.
Course syllabus
This half-day workshop includes 3 core modules, delivered based on the 30-30-30-10 format:
30% theory. 30% practical use case walk through. 30% collaborative exercises with other designers. 10% knowledge reflection.
Business fundamentals for designer
✅ Understand basic business models, growth stages and competitive landscapes.
✅ Apply key business metrics to measure success.
✅ Identify innovative advantages for a business as a designer.
Business strategy
frameworks
✅ Understand the why and how behind strategic thinking.
✅ Define strategic focus using proven frameworks.
✅ Collaborate with other designers to work a real business case.
Connect design to business outcomes
✅ Learn to bridge design opportunities to company goals.
✅ Communicate the value of "Desirability".
✅ Collaborate with other designers to present a convincing design rationale.
🗓️ Saturday, 28 September (20pp max capacity)
Investment: AUD $380pp
You can expense the cost of this education course 👉🏼 here's how
Meet your instructor
Jacalin Ding - Principal Product Designer // Business Founder // Educator // Speaker
Jacalin Ding is a seasoned product design leader and a strategic business designer with more than 15 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.
Jacalin is a Top-NPS-Ranked Instructor from General Assembly.
👉🏼 Read more about student's raving reviews on the Maven product accelerator course here.
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Location
Darling Square Library - Ideas Space Level 1
The Exchange, Levels 1 and 2, 1 Little Pier St, Haymarket NSW 2000
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