Mini Design MBA

Learn 5 key business skills of top designers in just 5 days

Business + Design = Magic

Feeling stuck in your design career? You’re definitely not the only one—and you’ve just landed in the right spot. Business literacy is the secret ingredient to a design career that thrives (and feels good too).

That’s why we created the ultimate starting point for learning business: The Mini Design MBA - a 5-day email course and workbook. It’s packed with the best, most practical frameworks from our flagship d.MBA program, which has been trusted by over 1,000 designers for the past 7 years.

The Mini Design MBA is already a hit with 10,000+ designers from companies like:

What’s inside?

5-day email course

10-page workbook

5 key business concepts to become the Go-To Designer

1 BUSINESS EMPATHY

Know your competition

Map your competitive landscape and learn who you're designing against with the Competitive Arena tool.

2 BUSINESS STRATEGY

Design like a strategist

Think strategically with the Trade-off Matrix, a framework to simplify tough decisions and guide your team.

3 BUSINESS MODELS

Know how your company makes money

Understand how your organization makes money so you can connect your design work to what drives success.

4 BUSINESS METRICS

Speak the language of business

Demystify 13 key metrics without the MBA-speak, so you can measure design's impact in ways the business values.

5 QUANTIFY DESIGN

Articulate design's value

Turn your work into numbers and speak the business language that gets buy-in and recognition.

… and 5 ready-to-use AI prompts  that will save you days of research

Meet the Author

Alen Faljic is the founder and CEO of d.MBA, the online business program for designers, trusted by over 1,000 alumni worldwide. An ex-IDEO business designer and host of the d.MBA podcast, Alen is one of the leading voices in the world of business design.

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