Design teams
with impact.

 

Create business value, increase influence, and hone team practices with workshops built for designers by designers.

 
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WE WORK WITH LEADERS AT

 
 
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OUR CURRICULUM

Design Dept. teaches designers to apply their most valuable skill—creativity—to the challenges of design leadership and management.

 

Designing with AI

Our newest educational experience helps creatives unleash their superpowers with generative AI. Members get access to video workshops, live learning labs, an exclusive speaker series, and much more.

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Managing teams

Teams scale their impact through great management. Level up your managers’ business acumen, increase influence through better cross-functional relationships, and hone management skills and team practices — from running critique to scaling quality.

Train your management team

 

Leading craft

Creative leadership isn’t just a management role. Individual contributors play an important role in influencing outcomes when they lead effectively through business and craft.

Train your senior individual contributors

 

NEW ONLINE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Where creativity and AI converge.

Designing with AI empowers designers with cutting-edge tech and tools they can use right away.

 
 
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Upcoming PUBLIC WORKSHOPS

Hone your leadership craft with a series of workshops created especially for designers.

 
 

NEW: SELF-GUIDED VIDEO COURSE

Design Your Time

Reboot your calendar and priorities at your own pace.

 
 
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Highlights from the blog

 
 

FOR INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS

Why designers need to business

We focus so much of our time, energy, and effort on building great experiences because that is what we love, that’s where our identity lies. But…
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FOR ALL LEVELS

The creative identity crisis

A realization about why learning business basics scares the bleep out of designers, and what to do about it.
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FOR MANAGERS

AI is going to eat your design system

Here’s how to keep your team relevant
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