Now accepting applications for Cohort 3. Last date to apply is January 22, 2022!
A 4-month intensive cohort-based program that helps you
& Transition to your dream job in design!
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Success Stories
And here’s what the fellows shared with us
Product Designer, Gojek
Product Designer, Unacademy
Product Designer, Jiva
Product Designer, Obvious
Product Designer, Frog
Product Designer, ownpath
Learning Experience
Learn how to make better design decisions and gain confidence in your work.
Advance your design skills with an industry-ready curriculum and a structured learning environment.
Advance your design skills with an industry-ready curriculum and a structured learning environment.
Identify gaps and opportunities with mentorship from senior designers.
Identify gaps and opportunities with mentorship from senior designers.
Sharpen your portfolio and showcase your work to hiring partners.
Sharpen your portfolio and showcase your work to hiring partners.
Fast paced startups and agencies that recruit directly from us. Head to our FAQ section to read more.
Mentors
Get feedback from practitioners on your work regularly.
Head, Product and Design
Dir. of Product Design
Director of Design
Founder
Design Beku
Lead Designer
Co-Founder
DesignOps Assembly
Product Designer
Founder
UX Leader
Group Design Head
Design Lead
Product Designer
Group Design Head
Design Manager
Senior Design Manager
Gojek
Curriculum
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.
timeline
Choose a track that’s the right fit for you.
part-time
For Designers who want to stay in their current job during the Fellowship.
Work on a real-world project with a team mate end to end.
Present your work to prospective hiring managers and designers.
full-time
For Designers who want to do the Fellowship full-time.
Work on a real-world project with a team mate end to end.
Present your work to prospective hiring managers and designers.
Fee structure
Choose your path 👇
Upfront payment
₹1,50,000
Win scholarships worth upto*
₹75,000
You effectively pay*
₹75,000
How does this work?
Upfront payment
₹1,95,000
Earn back upto
₹1,95,000
You effectively pay*
₹0
How does this work?
*Subject to getting selected for part-time work and 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 110% post fellowshipOur team would be happy to assist you with any questions you might have
De-risk your hiring process with vetted designers at ownpath
Hire trained designers graduating from ownpath’s programs.
See proof-of-work and references to ensure you’re hiring qualified designers.
Our scholarship partners
Admissions
That’s totally fine, as long as you’ve worked in some design field (Eg: Information design, Interaction Design, Product Design, Graphic design, Visual Design, New Media Design, Industrial design, and Digital Game Design).
If you’re completely new to the design field, we suggest taking introductory courses, getting an internship, and then 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.
Payment
Yes. Please take a look at the Fee Structure section on this same page.
We spend a lot of effort and money towards curating the curriculum, designing the learning experience, and executing our programs. We also compensate our speakers and mentors.
That said, all of this is to help you succeed! We strive to help you get far more value from the program than what you pay for. We do this by ensuring you have a fulfilling learning experience and find a better paying job through our placement services.
Learning Experience
A typical week will involve you in:
Upto 24 folks will be admitted into the cohort. The emphasis is on enabling you to deliver your best through personalised guidance and feedback.
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.
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, 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.
Placement
Yes! The idea of having industry partners on board and organising Demo Days 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 do well on your projects and clear the interview!
No. We do not offer job guarantees, we do however help you:
Prepare for interviews through coaching and portfolio reviews
Showcase your work through Demo Days, to hiring managers from our Hiring Partners and elsewhere.
Introduce you to companies who are hiring through our network.
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.
Fellowship Track
The Apprentice track places cohort members with select hiring partners, for part-time roles to help them get real-world experience during the Fellowship.
It requires the Fellow to be enrolled full-time into the Fellowship program.
The stipend you earn will go towards paying off your Fellowship fee, thus making it a lot more affordable! The actual stipend will depend on the company you are working with.
The company you are doing your apprenticeship with, has the option to offer you a full-time job after successfully graduating from the Fellowship, based on fit.
Additionally, your profile is also shared with other hiring partners in the ownpath hiring network with whom you’ll be interviewing for full-time roles.
What’s better, you stand a chance to win a scholarship if you get hired by one of our scholarship partners!
Group Design Head, Gojek
Can’t express how much about design management I learnt with @ownpath_xyz ♥️
To all the aspiring UX designers out there!
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!
Master's student, UW
There's so much to talk about in what I've been upto for the last two months.
🔥 things so far :
- learning from masterclasses and then applying it to our problem statement
- working with fellows who have become dear friends
- confidence in my ability to drive a design process
Product Designer, Obvious
I left my job in Feb and have been having literally the greatest time ever the last 2 months learning at @ownpath_xyz from some incredible mentors.
I'd say the COVID induced masters FOMO has also vanished (perhaps temporarily, we'll find), it's been that great.
Product Designer, Gojek
I've been watching Ownpath for a while and interacting with grads and I'm super excited at what they're trying to create. They're trying to build a new, different kind of work-education hybrid model where students are engaged with potential employers from the start.
SVP Engineering, Gojek
Love what @ownpath_xyz has launched! This is *the* way to do professional upskilling - doing actual *paid* work for real customers on real world projects. No test, exam or unpaid project can compare. And the course becomes effectively free in the process. Perfect.
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