For those leading design studios or design teams, learn how to:
- lead business-focused conversations
- manage creative environments
- build a sustainable culture
- take charge of your career
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Attracting Clients
Join Design strategist Jonathan Kirk of Up to the Light (authors of the What Clients Think Report) for an online workshop on redefining your agency’s marketing approach from selling to drawing clients through Thought Leadership.
Designers FORUMS
IDI’s Monthly Forums are all about giving you the opportunity to set your agenda to discuss the topics of most relevance to you with the people who understand most. The IDI’s Forums series give you a safe space to discuss the topics that are most pressing in your field of work, with others in the same position.
Professional Diploma in UX Design
A unique 6-month university-accredited programme in UX for Designers and Creatives, combining online learning and live webinars to further develop business skills and build successful careers.
Design Management Professional Diploma
Developed for busy working professional designers and design function managers (not all design managers are designers) to empower them to take their business and careers to the next level.
Designs on Growth
An innovative learning and development response providing owner/managers with best practice business management skills to support sustainability and increase revenue in their business.
Certificate in Design for Sustainability and Circular Economies
Invest in the Future of your design practice and continue your professional development with a Certificate in Design for Sustainability and Circular Economies, delivered by LSAD and accredited by TUS in partnership with Design Skillnet.
We’ve delivered training to over
2,000 design professionals across Ireland
The Design Leaders Conference was an opportunity to benchmark my thinking on design as a profession
An unmissable opportunity to build your network, get exposed to new ideas and learn up to date industry trends and best practice.
‘It was great to bring away knowledge I could apply instantly in our studio’
"The programme helps you take the first hand, in-depth knowledge of your own business, structure it, assess it, set realistic goals, and create a road map for growth”
“There was great solidarity seeing other studios on the course also facing similar issues. It has had a positive impact on how we’re now developing our studio.”