Certified Digital Product Professional
Design, build, and ship a real digital product, independently.
About 140 hours of real coursework
Enroll in this PathwayCertified Digital Product Professional
Finishing every course is not what earns this credential. You earn it by demonstrating all 19 required competencies through real, assessed evidence, then bringing them together in the Project below — reviewed end to end, not graded on attendance.
Professional & Solution Architecture
- Identify the Underlying Problem
- Distinguish Problem from Proposed Solution
- Identify Stakeholders and Constraints
- Produce a Defensible Problem Statement
- Elicit Functional Requirements
- Identify Non-Functional Requirements
- Prioritize and Resolve Requirement Conflicts
- Produce Structured Requirements Documentation
- Decompose Requirements into Components
- Define Structure and Component Relationships
- Evaluate Architectural Trade-offs
- Document Architectural Decisions
- Document Interfaces and Dependencies
- Produce Professional-Facing Documentation
Professional Practice
- Requirements Interpretation & Communication
- Estimation & Planning
- Stakeholder Communication
- Professional Presentation & Defense
- Handover & Knowledge Transfer
Course Sequence
"A 4-6 month realistic digital product project: problem definition, user research, design and build, launch, and measuring real impact. Real-world constraints (stakeholder needs, technical limitations, timeline), not a classroom exercise."
Included Modules
"Job search and portfolio presentation; the real differences between product designer, UX researcher, and product manager roles; interviewing skills for product roles; the entry-level product role salary and opportunity landscape."
Included Modules
Skills Gained
- User experience research and design
- Product roadmap planning
- Visual and motion branding
- 3D product visualization
- AI-powered feature design
- Cross-functional stakeholder collaboration
- Design system development
- Product launch and iteration
Professional Competencies
- • Requirements elicitation and stakeholder communication
- • Distinguishing the real problem from a proposed solution
- • Decomposing complex requirements into manageable components
- • System architecture design and trade-off evaluation
- • Documenting architectural decisions, interfaces, and dependencies
- • Structured requirements and technical documentation
- • Project estimation and planning
- • Professional presentation and defense of technical work
- • Knowledge transfer and project handover
Industry Tools
Integrated Digital Product Project
One digital product, architected, designed, engineered, tested, deployed, documented and defended -- not three unrelated assessments.
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1
Discover
Problem Definition
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2
Define
Product Requirements Specification
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3
Architect
Product Architecture + UX Architecture
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4
Engineer
Working Product (repository)
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5
Execute
Tested, deployed product (live URL, test results)
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6
Professionalize
Full documentation/handover package
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7
Defend
Live panel defense
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This program is part of the Digital Product Architect Pathway. You'll pick your starting cohort for Certified Digital Product Professional — the first program in the pathway — on the next step.
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