Content & data
Mapping user goals to what actually belongs on the screen — visualizing, filtering, sorting, and persisting data with intent.
Video course · for product designers
It's easy to design a pretty dashboard. Designing a useful one is a craft.
A deep, practical course on data visualization, complex layout, and the dense interfaces real software runs on — the part your design education quietly skipped.
Full course launching 2026 · Founding-member pricing for the first 100
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01 — The gap
There's almost no real training for this.
Search for "UI design course" and you'll drown in options. Search for how to design a dense, data-heavy dashboard and you'll find a handful of Dribbble shots and a couple of well-worn books.
Most designers piece it together on the job. This course is the resource we all wish existed.
01
Solving the right problem — not just shipping something that looks good in a screenshot.
02
Designing differently for a VP glancing at a status board and an analyst digging for insight.
03
Choosing the chart that fits the data — not the one that looks the most impressive.
04
Communicating the value of your process to the stakeholders and clients who sign off on it.
02 — The craft
Everything a dashboard has to get right.
From the first content decision to the last pixel of polish — and the technical realities in between. Six areas, taught the way a senior designer actually works.
Layout & structure
Hierarchy, progressive disclosure, and scalable module systems — fixed and fluid, on big screens and small.
Navigation
Wayfinding, orientation, launchers and modals — so users always know where they are and where they can go.
Visualization & charts
The decision system behind every chart — comparisons, proportions, relationships, trends, and the patterns to avoid.
Personalization & states
Profiles, preferences, permissions, and the loading, empty, success, warning and error states that make a tool feel alive.
Performance & feasibility
Designing with technical reality in mind — progressive loading, caching, and interfaces that stay fast on low-spec machines.
03 — Curriculum
Nine sections. Eighteen modules. One dashboard you build yourself.
A complete path from first principles to a finished, portfolio-ready capstone — with worksheets, checklists, flashcards and templates along the way.
01
2 modules
Understanding dashboards
What a dashboard really is · dashboards vs. reports · display vs. control · explanatory vs. exploratory.
02
2 modules
Design fundamentals
10 common mistakes and how to avoid them · balancing function and aesthetics · highlighting what matters · designing for decisions.
03
2 modules
User-centered content & layout
Mapping user goals to content · documentation and tooltips · hierarchy · progressive disclosure · scalable interfaces.
04
1 module
Navigation patterns
Placement and interaction patterns · orientation and wayfinding · future-proof navigation systems.
05
2 modules
Data visualization
A short history and the function of charts · choosing the right visualization · comparisons, proportions, relationships, trends · tables · graphics for tight spaces.
06
2 modules
Principles of data design
Data vs. information · data-to-pixel ratio · extreme values · sorting · states and alerts · reducing complexity.
07
2 modules
Visual design
Designing a color palette · branding for consistency · leveraging design systems · a practical polish checklist.
08
2 modules
Responsive & accessible dashboards
Progressive enhancement · mobile interaction patterns · contrast and readability · designing for assistive technology.
09
3 modules
Interaction design & capstone
Filtering, drilldowns and faceplates · animation · user configuration · then build your own dashboard with feedback.
04 — Who it's for
Built for designers who work on the hard stuff.
Primary audience
Mid-level to senior product designers
You're already shipping complex software — admin panels, analytics tools, order management, internal platforms. You can make it look good. You want the depth to make it work: the right data decisions, the right charts, the rationale you can defend in a room full of stakeholders.
Also for
Designers getting ahead early
You're earlier in your career and you've noticed your education never covered any of this. This is the head start — the dense, practical knowledge most designers only pick up after years on the job, organized into one clear path.
05 — Courses
Start now, or be first in line.
The full dashboard course is on its way. In the meantime, the Product Design Ops mini-course is ready today.
Learn Dashboard Design
The complete video course — 9 sections, 18 modules, and a capstone dashboard you design from scratch.
- Video lessons, worksheets, checklists & templates
- Tool-agnostic principles, with examples in Figma
- A portfolio-ready capstone project
Founding price
Get notified at launch →
50% off for the first 100 · pay nothing until launch
Product Design Ops
A focused mini-course on the systems and habits that make a product designer faster, calmer, and easier to work with.
- File, layer & naming hygiene that scales across a team
- Cleaner handoffs and a repeatable design workflow
- Practical templates you can use the same day
$129USD · one-time
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06 — Your instructor
Hi, I'm Ray.
Product designer · 20 years on complex software
I've spent much of my career designing complex web applications and dashboards across fintech, energy, healthcare and education — the kind of dense, data-heavy products that rarely get talked about at design conferences.
Along the way I kept running into the same thing: there's almost no education for this niche, even though nearly every product could benefit from getting it right. So I'm putting everything I know about complex data, visualization and digital product design into one course — the resource I wish I'd had two decades ago.
Get notified
Be first in line — and pay the founding price.
Drop your email and I'll let you know the moment the full course is ready. The first 100 sign-ups get 50% off, no payment until launch.
No spam. One email when it launches, and the occasional dashboard tip.
You're on the list. ✓ I'll be in touch the moment it's ready.
07 — Questions
Good to know.
It's in production now and launching in 2026. Join the list and you'll be the first to know the exact date — plus you'll lock in founding-member pricing.
The principles are tool-agnostic — they apply whether you work in Figma, Sketch, or anything else. Hands-on examples are demonstrated in Figma, since that's where most product teams live today.
General UI courses teach you to make things look good. This goes deeper into the part they skip: choosing the right visualization for your data, structuring dense layouts, designing for very different users on the same screen, and defending those decisions to stakeholders. It's the craft of complex, data-heavy interfaces specifically.
It's a short, focused course that's available to buy today — covering the systems and habits that make a product designer faster and easier to work with: file hygiene, cleaner handoffs, and a repeatable workflow, with templates you can use the same day. A great place to start while the full course is being finished.
Yes. The first 100 people on the list get the full course for 50% off, and you don't pay anything until it launches. It's my thank-you for backing the course early.
Not at all. It's written for mid-level and senior designers, but it's structured to bring earlier-career designers up to speed on topics their education likely never covered. If you're comfortable in a design tool, you'll be able to follow along.