Advanced UX & Product Influence for Researchers & Designers

Learn to champion your ideas, build influence within your team and level up your UX research and design career

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Gain the skills to build your voice as a strategic research and design partner with influence and impact on your work

You have great ideas and valuable insights, but struggle to communicate them to your team effectively. You’re often overlooked, dismissed, or talked over during the decision-making process. You want to step up your game and have your seat at the table, but you’re left feeling undervalued and stagnant. You’re aware that something needs to change for you to move forward.

With our Advanced UX & Product Influence course, you'll gain the confidence and skills needed to navigate ambiguous product challenges, drive evidence-based design decisions, and influence product development, all while delivering more value to your team and organisation.

Ready? Speak to one of our Learning Advisors today and get one step closer to building your strategic influence

Who is this course for?

  • You’re an experienced researcher employing rigorous methodologies, generating actionable findings, and advocating for the importance of research in product development - you want greater recognition and influence within your organisation to ensure research findings are integrated effectively into decision-making processes and product development strategies.

  • You’re an experienced designer creating impactful and user-centric solutions that solves problems, enhances experiences and improves people's lives - now you’re looking to have your strategic voice heard and step up your influence on the product.

  • You passionately promote the value of user-centred design principles and practices, emphasising the importance of considering user needs, behaviours, and preferences throughout the product development lifecycle - you want your perspective valued at the table during product discussions.

  • You're looking to become more than a contributor where your input on the direction of the product is limited to executing tasks based on briefs - you want to become a strategic partner with greater influence on product development.

  • You're actively pursuing opportunities for growth and development to move your career forward in UX research and design - you want to demonstrate your value to your team and effectively communicate the impact of your work on the product.

What you’ll get on the journey ahead

Live Online,
Instructor-Led Lessons

Engage in interactive live classes for nine weeks, led by industry experts, held part-time in the evenings. Flexibility allows managing your schedule and weekly deadlines.

Support Beyond
The Classroom

Access 1:1 career coaching, ongoing updates, frameworks and networking opportunities in our private community, connecting your classmates and instructors.

Leading
Industry Access

Learn directly from senior research, design and product professionals at leading companies. You'll get an insider look into how they work with stakeholders.

New Confidence
and Skills

Develop the skills needed to influence product development and present confidently as a strategic partner within your team and organisation.

Course Outline

This advanced course is tailored for experienced researchers and designers who want to strategically influence product decisions, effectively communicate their business impact, and improve their career prospects with confidence and skills that can be tested in the real world - adding value to their team and organisation.

    • Introduction to foundational concepts in strategic influence

    • The role of strategic influence in UX and product design

    • Identifying key stakeholders and their decision-making influence

    • Overview of course objectives and expectations

    • Identifying and mapping stakeholder influence networks

    • Analysing stakeholder motivations, interests, and power dynamics

    • Effective stakeholder management and relationship building

    • Successful stakeholder engagement examples

    • Principles of persuasive communication in UX and product design

    • Crafting clear and compelling messages for diverse audiences

    • Role-playing scenarios for practicing persuasive communication

    • Feedback sessions for refining communication skills

    • The role of data and insights in influencing design decisions

    • Methods for collecting, analysing, and interpreting relevant data

    • Articulating insight-led design rationale and recommendatins

    • Applying data-driven insights to real-world design challenges

    • Storytelling in design and its influence on decision-making

    • Crafting narratives that resonate and drive action

    • Workshop: Develop and refine project-specific design narratives

    • Evolving narratives based on new insights and design feedback

    • Parallels between negotiation and design processes

    • Understanding interests and needs

    • Identifying and managing constraints for problem-solving

    • Utilising frameworks and ladders for agreement

    • Incorporating feedback into the design process

    • Fostering collaboration and alignment across different teams

    • Building relationships and identifying collaborators

    • Facilitating productive and inclusive discussions

    • Networking and Job Search Strategies for Senior Roles

    • Interview Techniques and Preparation

    • LinkedIn & CV Workshop

    • Portfolio & Case Study Presentations

    • Taking an Offer & Negotiating

    • Career Coaching

    • Expert Q&A

  • You own your career, and you have more of an ability to shape it than anybody else.

    Julie Zhuo

Meet the Instructors

  • Tobi Adesuyi

    SENIOR DESIGN RESEARCH MANAGER
    The LEGO Group

  • Anita Lai

    SENIOR INTERACTION DESIGNER
    Department of Work & Pensions

  • Nelya Pearson

    TALENT ACQUISITION PARTNER
    Nelly Works (ex-Meta)

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UX Elevations FAQs

  • We partner with PayItMonthly to offer various flexible payment plans, allowing you to divide the course cost into installments for affordability and accessibility. To discuss payment plans further, schedule a call with an advisor.

  • Students are admitted on a case-by-case basis after a consultation with one of our Learning Advisors. Key factors we’ll discuss with you include:

    1. Commitment *

    You do need to be motivated and committed. We set a high bar and require a certain amount of time, energy and focus. Our team will be there to support you along every step of the way to get the most out of the course.

    2. English language

    You need to be comfortable learning in English. All video lessons, course materials and correspondence delivered in English.

    3. Equipment

    A computer (macOS, Windows, or Linux) with a webcam, microphone, and an internet connection.

    *Note that you will be required to invest some independent study time into familiarizing yourself with the tools you’ll use throughout the course, and learning how to use them. It is estimated that you will need to spend an additional 1-2 hours per week of extracurricular study time becoming comfortable with them.

  • No coding skills are required. You will be using industry-standard tools such as Figma and Miro which require no coding ability.

  • We welcome enthusiastic beginners always! However, to get the most out of this course I recommend you already have around 2 years of experience working full time as a designer or researcher. It's helpful to have situations or team dynamics you can use to reflect upon during the course.

    If you’re a beginner, we would recommend looking into one of the following courses:

    • Google UX Certificate

    • CareerFoundry

    • Coursera

    • Skillshare

    • UX Academy

    • Interaction Design Foundation

    • LinkedIn Learning

    • Udemy

    • General Assembly

  • Yes, your employer can reimburse costs for this course as long as they have a dedicated learning and development budget. Check-in with your employer to get more details.

    You can also send our email template to your employer in order to get buy-in.

  • Refunds are available with no questions asked up until 2 weeks before the course begins. Afterwards we can work with you to defer your enrollment to a subsequent cohort if necessary.

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