Design Skills

Now couldn’t be more a important time to start developing your design skills and keeping up with current trends, but where do you start?

When the time is right, studying full-time or part-time can help you or your employees gain further qualifications which can prove beneficial when thinking about your next career move or to help developing your workforce. However personal development can take many forms.

Our advice

There is a wide range of options that you or your company can consider when looking to improve your skills and knowledge:

• You may want to consider short courses which many institutes are now running for 1-3 days in length.
• Attending various events, seminars or workshops is an easy way to network but if time and costs are an issue, then the internet is a great source and time efficient way to watch events from around the world. Why not view our website to see what the latest events are happening in the region.
• Other opportunities to consider include keeping up-to-date with design issues or trends through magazines, books, blogs or social networking sites. Why not view our website to see what the latest useful links have been added.

How can Design Network North help?

Design Network North has a series of Design Performance workshops which will enable your whole team to assess your current performance across the key areas of new product and service development and to create action plans to improve your performance.

These workshops are fully funded (for up to two days support) and are facilitated by our Design Network North experts. Interested? Please contact a member of the Design Network North team via our contact us page.