ABOUT
Why learn from ownpath?
Get mentored by senior designers
Identify gaps and opportunities for growth, with feedback and guidance from senior designers.
Solidify with an industry-ready curriculum
Advance your design skills with curriclum designed in collaboration with design leaders.
Find your own design community
Interact with alumni, mentors, guest speakers, and supercharge your network.
Progress faster with a structured environment
Show your work and get feedback with design studio sessions every week. Consistent progress is key!
Win scholarships worth upto ₹75,000
Win scholarships based on your portfolio, performance, and placement outcomes!
Unlock your dream job with our hiring network
Sharpen your design portfolio, showcase your work to our hiring partners, and find your dream job!
Is this for you?
Strengthen your design foundations. Grow faster in your career.
You feel stuck.
You want to grow faster.
Mentors
Learn from top senior designers.
Get feedback from practitioners on your work regularly.
Abhinit Tiwari
Head of Design
Navneet Nair
Dir. of Product Design
Padmini Ray Murray
Founder
Design Beku
Akshay Verma
Lead Designer
Pragati Mehrotra
Product Designer
Tejas Bhatt
Founder
Sameer Bhiwani
User Experience Leader
Fatema Raja
UX and Brand Design
Somya Hastekar
Design Lead
Vikalp Gupta
Product Designer
Aprajit Kar
Product Design Head
Shivani Gupta
Design Manager
Kenneth Dsouza
Senior Design Manager
Curriculum
Get ready for the real-world.
A comprehensive curriculum, designed in collaboration with industry leaders.
Gain insights into product teams and the role of a product designer. Understand why products fail and how you can increase your odds of designing a successful product by following the new product development process.
Learn what drives behaviours, and motivations to understand people that products are designed for. Study why they react in a certain manner and what their actions mean which helps you design meaningful interactions.
Identify methods to conduct ethical user research and apply the same while designing products and experiences. Learn how to build products that your users will trust and love.
Communicate with the business and product team about users’ needs through research. Learn methods of research synthesis that help identify gaps in users’ experiences.
Learn to solve problems in emerging domains by studying innovation through first principles. Study how to increase adaptability and lower the learning curve for users in new mediums of interaction.
Learn how to connect design initiatives with business objectives. Identify opportunity areas along with the business team to co-create business models for the product and identify a north-star metric
Define user flows and task flows by identifying the best solution in terms of feasibility, viability, and usefulness. Also, learn methods of generating concepts quickly and testing multiple solutions.
Illustrate the experience of products by creating design systems and style guides. Learn how to empower users to perform tasks seamlessly using principles of visual design, accessibility, design patterns and more.
Identify if the product allows for easy task completion by users and their pain points. Study how to make quick iterations while testing so that the product is able to meet its objectives.
Recognise patterns from research data while testing products to inform design decisions. Learn how to make these decisions accurately by identifying various characteristics of data like biases, hierarchy, analysis, and more.
Develop narratives that are in line with your users’ needs. Understand the parts of a story, tone and structure and use this as a tool to represent users’ voices.
Build a compelling résumé that highlights your skills and achievements. Effectively structure your portfolio and cover letters with relevant project details and prepare for interviews.
Get access to our comprehensive curriculum and resource bank for further reading
TIMELINE
Learn alongside your job.
Do the Fellowship part-time along side your job. For maximum impact, do the Fellowship full-time!
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MasterclassPrepare for the week’s masterclass by going through pre-reads and concept videos. Time: 15-30 mins Self work |
Studio SessionHand-on, live brainstorming session with the cohort and a mentor Time: 60-90 mins Live studio |
Check-inShow your assigned work for the week to an internal mentor & get feedback for the same Time: 15-30 mins Mentoring |
Peer ReviewPresent your work and progress to the cohort. Learn from each other as you build your product from scratch. Time: 60-90 mins Peer Review |
Mentor ReviewPresent your assigned work to an industry mentor and get live feedback on your work. Time: 90-120 mins Mentor Review |
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Community EventMeet & learn from design leaders Time: 60 mins Community |
Research & DesignContinue to work on your project for the week with an assigned team member from the program Time: 45-90 mins/ day Self work |
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Scholarships
Scholarships at ownpath
All fellows at ownpath are eligible for scholarships . Based on your performance, earn back a part of your fee towards the end of the program.
⭐️ Admission Scholarship
upto ₹25,000
Have a strong prior experience in Product/UX design? You stand a chance to win this!
⚡️ Performance Scholarship
upto ₹25,000
Do excellent work in the Fellowship. Write blog posts. Win a performance scholarship!
💼 Hiring Scholarship
upto ₹25,000
Get hired with a scholarship partner and win a hiring scholarship!
Fee structure
The Fellowship pays for itself
Choose your path 👇
Upskill Track
₹1,50,000
Incl GST. Friendly EMIs available.
How does this work?
- 4 one-on-one mentorship sessions with a senior designer
- 16 personalised feedback sessions with industry mentors
- 36 hours of exclusive masterclass video content
- Weekly collaborative sessions for brainstorming & design critique
- Scholarships worth upto ₹25,000.
Placement Track NEW
₹1,95,000
Incl GST. Friendly EMIs available.
How does this work?
- Everything in upskill track plus
- Portfolio & Interview Prep
- Gain access to freelance opportunities in our network of hiring partners
- Earn scholarships upto ₹50,000
- Referrals to companies in our hiring network
*Subject to winning a scholarship with our hiring partners.
Over 50+ companies have signed up to hire designers from us including
Fellows from cohort 1 saw their salaries increase by 98% post fellowship
Need help with making a decision?
Our team would be happy to assist you with any questions you might have
