We made an email template to help convince your boss to pay for Mindful Design

Dear {Boss},

I have found a new design course called Mindful Design that I believe will completely transform our ability to produce design that actually works well for our users/customers. The course doesn’t teach hacks and deceptive patterns, but instead teaches us how the human brain actually works, so our design skills will evolve to work with people, rather than against them. I think that will benefit us all in the long term.

I also think the course will be useful for our front-end developers because the instructor, Scott Riley, covers practical design skills from scratch. Our developers are not designers, but having a broader understanding of practical design and how the human brain works will improve their skillset and output a lot. It’ll also help them work more effectively and efficiently with our designers, who themselves, will always benefit from re-learning the fundamentals too.

The course has nearly 20 hours of video content and around 15-30 hours of practical exercises. I thought doing those exercises as a team will be an efficient way for us all to skill up at the same time. The course is written off the back of a really successful book, also called Mindful Design, which has helped countless teams already, including the BBC, Stanford, GitLab and Zeroheight.

If you would like to look over all the course curriculum you can find it here. Certificates are also available upon completion of the course should we want them, along with LinkedIn certifications.

I am asking that we allocate some of our training budget for this course if possible. Bulk discounts are available, should we want the team to go through this together.

Thanks!