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Predicting Business Impact for Designers

A design leadership course to convert insights and opinions into compelling, statistical evidence that your work is awesome.

Predicting Business Impact for Designers • Design Leadership Course

Overview

If your stakeholders are asking about ROI, you need to know what they mean by that and whether or not they actually want the math. Because if they’re not using math, they’re just guessing. There’s no way to meet the expectations of a guess.

In this course, learn how to develop rubrics and ratings to define product quality for the teams who build it. Establish a scorecard to monitor and track the desirability health of your product, service, or portfolio. Raise your confidence levels in understanding the math of Return on Investment.

In this course, you’ll learn the basics of statistics to track, monitor, and validate the value of design work.

  • Estimate ROI
  • Track and Monitor Your Progress
  • Connect Solutions into Financial Outcomes
  • Propose Actions that Impact the Bottom Line

Who is this for?

Designers, DesignOps, Design Managers, Design Directors, Design Executives

Program goal

Learn how to develop rubrics and ratings to define quality. Establish a scorecard to monitor and track the desirability health of your product, service, or portfolio. Raise your confidence levels in understanding the math of Return on Investment.

Topics Covered

ROI Formulas

Basic math skills go a long way. By examining standard ROI formulas for engagement, satisfaction, adoption, retention, and more, you will learn how to ask about the math being used and how to align design to business math.

Rubric and Rating Scales

Rubrics are assessment and learning tools that can help ease the anxieties product teams feel when talking about quality. Learn to lay out specific criteria and expectations for what good looks like to help your teams stay focused and be more confident in their work.

The Ultimate List of Metrics

Review the common metrics used by companies around the world to evaluate not only product health, but the health of support, sales, and operations.

Predictive ROI

At it’s core, ROI is a simple math formula involving two numbers; cost and return. But how do you learn how to estimate either? Learn how to better estimate your impact before the work even begins.


Meet your Instructor

Ryan Rumsey

For 20+ years, Ryan worked as a designer and executive at Apple, Electronic Arts, USAA, Nestlé, and Comcast. He is also the author of Business Thinking for Designers.

Ryan spent 10+ years as the senior design leader charged with building and scaling design organizations.

For the last four years, Ryan has been teaching design executives, leaders, and teams as CEO of Second Wave Dive and lead instructor of CDO School.


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