AI-Powered Strategic Design Accelerator

Jacalin Ding

Product Leader, 2xFounder, Seed-B Raised

Live Cohort

Learn live alongside a cohort of peers

Self-paced

Start anytime and work at your own pace

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Future-Proof Your Design Career: AI-Powered Strategy + Business Storytelling

OCT - SOLD OUT ⭐️9.8/10 Rating ⭐️Top 7th design course ⭐️ 3 cohorts annually ⭐️ 1-1 support

Many designers face these challenges:

👉🏽 Hesitating to contribute to business strategy discussions

👉🏽 Hitting a career ceiling despite strong craft skills

👉🏽 Struggling to communicate design value to business stakeholders .

This course transforms you from executor to strategic partner. Beyond business acumens, learn to apply AI tools across strategy, evaluation and to increase your business confidence.

With AI handling repetitive craft, the designers who advance are those equipped with business knowledge, make strategic decisions, and drive business outcomes.

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💬 "This is by far, one of the best courses I've taken about combining business with design." Principal Product Designer @Meta / Ex-Doordash

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Tap into the real live MBA strategies and success frameworks I've used to helping companies to secure millions in funding and grown my multi-6-figures side hustle businesses.

Outcome from Alumni:

+ 72% higher confidence connecting design to business outcomes

+ 68% higher confidence in strategic decision-making

+ 64% higher confidence in business storytelling skills

What you’ll learn

Use AI to strengthen strategic thinking. Gain trust as a business partner. Make confident strategic decisions. Communicate design's value.

Master Business Acumen & AI-Powered Strategy

Build confidence speaking the language of growth, profit, positioning, and trade-offs

Use AI to accelerate strategic analysis, trend validation, and opportunity mapping

Decode business models to identify where design creates strategic advantage

Drive Business Growth Through Multiplying Design Impact

Connect design initiatives to measurable business outcomes using proven frameworks

Map how design impacts across revenue, operations, and customer value

Make strategic trade-offs confidently, even when metrics aren't clear-cut

Prove Design ROI With Data

Quantify design's business value through ROI prototyping and evaluation methods

Build rationales backed by data that resonate with finance and executive stakeholders

Create feedback loops that demonstrate design impact over time

Communicate Confidently & Influence Decisions

Build bulletproof business cases that connect design decisions to revenue

Master communication techniques that build trust and executive presence

Lead strategy conversations and gain new level of confidence to excel your career

Learn directly from Jacalin

Jacalin Ding

Product & Design Leader | 2x Business Founder | Seed to Series B Advisor

Jacalin Ding is a Design Leader and Business Strategist who's spent 18 years connecting design work to measurable business outcomes.

She's advised CEOs and founders through raising millions in funding to grow their businesses, launched AI initiatives that doubled revenue, and built her own multiple six-figure businesses.

Her work has spanned startups to enterprises across New York, Vancouver, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney.

Since 2018, Jacalin has taught over 10,000 designers to become design business partners. Her students come from Google, Meta, DoorDash, LinkedIn, Visa, and Atlassian—and have gone on to earn promotions to Lead Strategic Designer and land Product Strategist roles.

You'll learn proven business frameworks and communication methods used in high-stakes strategic decisions.