Course
Digital Product Design Training
Go beyond design to build impactful digital products and scale your career.
Learn how digital products are built and how to stand out as a product designer by connecting users with business goals and teams, and by scaling through strategy and systems thinking. You’ll also learn how to grow your design taste, create high-quality products, set clear product principles, work better with teams, and think about the whole picture, from customer journey and branding to storytelling and tying everything together.
Intake starts
What you will learn
Learn to uncover high-value problems before jumping into solutions
Build scalable, consistent, and efficient design practices.
Connect design decisions to business impact and strategic thinking
Ship designs that maintain quality, communicate value, and inspire teams.
Apply all learnings to a realistic, high-impact case study.
Course Syllabus
Week 1: Modern product design mindset
Objective: Reorient thinking from UI deliverables to strategic, systems-driven design.
- Internet startup history → lessons for designers
- Evolution of product design: from visuals to outcomes
- Career and growth cycles for product designers
- Myths vs. facts in design careers
- Aspirations, inspirations, and personal ethos
- What makes a great product designer today
- Systems thinking and product sense
- Business Goals × User Needs × Tech Constraints
- Intro to Product-Market Fit (PMF) and Jobs to Be Done (JTBD)
- Outcome mindset: why strategy matters now
Week 2: Problem discovery and research
Objective: Learn to uncover high-value problems before jumping into solutions.
- Building product thinking as a skill
- Problem finding vs. solution jumping
- Research methods: ethnographic, generative, competitive
- Journey mapping vs. opportunity mapping
- Understanding users and business through qualitative + quantitative data
- Working effectively with PMs and researchers
- Collaboration tools (Miro, Notion, Loom, figma) for distributed teams
Week 3: Design systems, tools and rapid prototyping
Objective: Build scalable, consistent, and efficient design practices.
- Difference between graphic, UI/UX, and product design
- Atomic design principles and component thinking
- Naming conventions, tokens, accessibility, theming
- Real-world startup design system case studies
- Tools deep dive: Figma, Miro, Notion, Zeplin
- Prototyping with logic, flows, variables
- Design handoff essentials
- Thinking of design as a system, not a screen
Week 4: Strategy, metrics and business fluency for designers
Objective: Connect design decisions to business impact and strategic thinking.
- Startup operations and funding basics
- Startup types: B2B, B2C, marketplaces, P2P
- Product types and business models (SaaS focus)
- SaaS metrics and unit economics
- Analytics tools: Mixpanel, GA, Amplitude
- Key metrics: DAU, MAU, retention, funnels
- Storytelling and decision-making with data
- Pricing models, perception and brand strategy
Week 5: Execution, collaboration and communication
Objective: Ship designs that maintain quality, communicate value, and inspire teams.
- Agile in reality vs. theory
- Working with engineers, QA, PMs
- Best practices for design-to-dev handoff
- Documentation: Notion, Loom, Figma best use
- Presenting design to stakeholders with influence
- Customer journey vs. user journey mapping
- UX architecture, flows, holistic experience thinking
- Taste, intuition and radical creativity
- MVP, MLP, MFL: designing for love, not just launch
Week 6: Capstone project, portfolio and career
Objective: Apply all learnings to a realistic, high-impact case study
Activities:
- Pick a domain: SaaS, Fintech, Healthtech, etc.
- Frame user + business pain points
- Research and design solution
- Prototype using design systems and flows
- Present case study to mock stakeholders
- Peer and mentor critique
Bonus career sessions
- Breaking into product design from adjacent roles
- Super-designer habits and mindset
- Writing as a design superpower
- Career tips for Nepali and global design markets
- Portfolio review and storytelling
- VC insights and how products get funded
- Post-course support and networking
Skill level
Intermediate
Duration
6 weeks
Format
2-3 live sessions/week
Hands-on Projects
Why Take This Course?
- Industry-relevant skills to kickstart your product design career
- Hands-on projects that mirror real-world challenges
- Certification upon completion to showcase your skills
- Access to mentorship & a supportive learning community
Who should take this course?
Aspiring Innovators
People who want to get better at solving problems in creative ways and making things that really help others.
Product Managers & Startup Founders
Professionals who want to make products that focus on users and bring new ideas to their teams.
UX/UI Designers
Designers who want to better understand users and work well with different teams.
Certification & Career Benefits
Earn a recognized certification upon completion
Strengthen your resume with industry-ready projects
Unlock career opportunities