The Product Design Fellowship helps you learn how to understand your users, define product strategy, and build products people actually want.
Get real-world experience with a project
Learn directly from industry mentors
Showcase your project to our Hiring Partners
Starts in Feb 2021. Applications processed on a rolling basis, last date to apply is Jan 22, 2021 (Extended).
Only 20 seats available.
Head of Design, Gojek
Dir. of Product Design, PhonePe
Product Designer, Obvious
Director of Design, Mark43
Design Manager, Razorpay
Founder, Design Beku
Founder, 3 sided coin
Founder, Narrativeviz Consulting
User Experience Leader, Google
Design Lead, Gojek
Design Lead, Microsoft
Product Designer, Obvious
Co-Founder, DesignOps Assembly
Design Manager, MathWorks
Product Design Head, Gojek
Build a real-world project with a team member. You’ll also showcase your project during Demo Day!
Learn concepts and case studies from industry leaders with live masterclasses led by industry experts.
Get personalised feedback and guidance for your project from industry practitioners.
Discuss questions and challenges with mentors and peers during Live Office Hours.
Get highly curated and carefully produced guides that are specific and relevant to your learning needs.
Participate and learn from peer-based events, guest talks, and forum discussions.
This masterclass will introduce you to research and techniques to understand pain points and validate product desirability.
In this masterclass, you’ll learn how to make sound design choices that creates a viable business impact.
To ensure the viability of your project, you will learn how to scope your product by striking a balance between value and features.
This masterclass will show you how to build robust data driven models informed by both quantitative and qualitative insights.
This masterclass will help you learn how to work laterally across teams by staying agile and learning how to generate, receive and work with feedback.
In this masterclass, you’ll understand how to leverage and implement insights in ways that ensures transparency for both you and your users.
Note: More topics will soon be added.
* Income Sharing Agreement
Apply with a brief portfolio of your prior design work. See our guide on how to apply.
Work on live projects, learn with masterclasses, and get feedback from practitioners.
Showcase your work to prospective employers on Demo Day.
Get offers from your dream company and take your journey as a Designer to the next stage!
Benefits | ownpath | College | Other Bootcamps & Mentoring Platforms |
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Learn from industry practitioners | |||
Emphasis on communication & collaboration | |||
Emphasis on entrepreneurial skills | |||
Focused on advanced skills | |||
Pay only if you get a better paying job | |||
Job placement through industry partnerships |
ownpath successfully conducted a 3 Month program on Design Management in 2020 for senior designers at Gojek. Aggregate rating of 4/5 across content, experience, and mentorship.
Aishwarya Naik learnt UI Design, UX Design, and User Research techniques from mentors on ownpath. Through her project work, she went on to win a work contract with a not-for-profit.
Abhinit Tiwari
Head of Design, Gojek
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
— abhinit آبھنئیت (@abhinitial) July 6, 2020
I had a great time working with them. Highly recommended! :D https://t.co/VcdhRV4YB3
Sameer Bhiwani
User Experience Leader, Google
🧠 As an Ownpath coach, I found this program’s format to be really engaging with a whole lot to offer learners.
— Sameer Bhiwani (@sambert) July 6, 2020
🚀 Ownpath is going places, highly recommended! https://t.co/YHkvfYoTKN
Fatema Raja
Design Lead, Gojek & ownpath learner
Can’t express how much about design management I learnt with @ownpath_xyz ♥️
— Fatema Raja 👩🏻💻 (@FatemajRaja) July 6, 2020
To all the aspiring UX designers out there! https://t.co/fqupqznDCT
Aishwarya Naik
Designer & ownpath Learner
Last week I took a fun workshop on Fundamentals of Visual Communication by @ownpath_xyz taken by @raginisiruguri who is a communication designer at @TaraBooks . Here's what I loved about the session we had : pic.twitter.com/t7SqDvmaCg
— Aishwarya (@ashwrya7) April 13, 2020
Jayashree Raman
ownpath Learner
Throwback to this amazing course I took last year with @ownpath_xyz and @planemad. I'm pretty observant about signage and navigation ever since.
— Jayashree Raman (@do_it_herselfer) August 4, 2020
Saw this really crisp trail navigation system recently and it made the exploration so worth it! 🏞️ https://t.co/iJsp3FrHwj pic.twitter.com/fqMxCQoMK2
Kristin Skinner
Founder at &GSD, ownpath Instructor
I kicked off the year leading a Masterclass on Design Management with the stellar team @ownpath_xyz and now we're following up with a Q&A for Design Leaders. Join us! https://t.co/IRKGL9wxSM
— Kristin Skinner (@bettay) January 22, 2020
20 folks, so that’s 10 teams of 2.
A typical week will involve you in:
Yes! The idea of having industry partners on board and organising a Demo Day is to help you showcase your work to top startups! We will also help you prepare your portfolio.
We’ll do everything we can. But, it’s still down to you to design a great project and clear the interview!
That’s totally fine, as long as you’ve worked in some design field. If you’re completely new to the design field, we suggest taking introductory courses and applying soon as you have a few projects on your portfolio.
We do plan to announce an introductory course for folks who’re completely new. Please do make sure to subscribe to our mailing list for updates on the same.
Either case, it’s a low risk decision. You either get a full refund or you don’t pay us if you don’t get a job in your target income range within 6 months of Demo Day.
The target income is personalised according to each participant’s background and goals, since they’re likely to be slightly different.
We wanted to make the Income Sharing Agreement option available to folks who’re currently tight on finances. We really don’t want money to come in the way of a good education.
That said, the option really depends on your financial comfort at this time. If you’re able to pay upfront, we suggest taking this route as it will likely save you money down the road.
Demo Day is an invite-only virtual event which will see participants from the cohort present their projects live.
The audience will include Heads of Design/Product and Hiring Managers from companies looking to hire Product Designers.
After the presentations, members in the audience will get in touch with you to discuss if their organisation might be a good fit for you.
Presentations will be recorded and based on your preferences, will be shared with select employers even after Demo Day, to ensure that you find the best possible offer.
Different people come with different backgrounds, life constraints, and learning speeds or preferences. So, there’s nothing to worry too much about if you don’t find an offer on Demo Day.
Since it’s most likely to do with lacking experience for the role, we’ll recommend you take up another project for a duration of 3 months, and we’ll continue to support you in the form of mentorship and opportunities during this time.
Please note that the second project is a required step in order to be eligible for a refund, in case one does not find a job within 6 months of Demo Day.
While we will give you a digitally verifiable certificate, we’d like to go further. We want to help you with gaining concrete experience and also developing industry connections.
Through assignments and projects, you’ll actually learn how to apply concepts and develop real-world experience; stuff you can feature on your portfolio.
Finally, by working with experienced professionals on ownpath, you’ll develop valuable connections that can unlock doors which would be much harder otherwise.
Interview with Sameer Bhiwani - UX Leader at Google
Team ownpath
How to successfully apply to the Product Design Fellowship program
Shreyas Satish and Sameer Bhiwani
Finding my own path with design
Aishwarya Naik
Interview with Pragati Mehrotra, Product Designer at Obvious
Team at ownpath
Interview with Chetty Arun, Design Manager at Razorpay
Team at ownpath
Interview with Tejas Bhatt, Founder of 3 Sided Coin
Team at ownpath
Office Hours with Sameer Bhiwani
Team at ownpath
Interview with Somya Hastekar, Product Design Lead at Microsoft
Team at ownpath
Office Hours with Fatema Raja, UX Lead at Gojek
Team at ownpath
Interview with Praneet Koppula - UX Manager at MathWorks
Team at ownpath
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