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Design Compass Masterclass: Build Your Product Roadmap

A hands-on masterclass to pressure-test your product idea and map your route to market.

About Design Compass Masterclass: Build Your Product Roadmap

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Have you attended the free Design Compass workshop, or you already know your idea has legs? Now it is time to go deeper.

This intimate two-hour masterclass is limited to nine participants. Before you arrive, you will have signed a group NDA, received one month's access to the Design Compass Expert Chat tool, and submitted the questions and challenges you most want answered.

The session is then structured around those real questions, yours and your cohort's. You are never obliged to share your idea with the group, but if you choose to, you do so knowing everyone in the room is bound by the same confidentiality agreement.

By the end, you will have applied the Design Compass to your own idea, with expert challenge and peer input, in a confidential setting. Following the event, you have a further month's free access to the Expert Chat tool to continue refining your idea.

Co- Created by product designer Stefan Knox, the Innovate UK–backed Design Compass and its Expert Chat are grounded in over 30 years of practice, 500+ product projects, and collaboration with industry and academics. Stefan believes that before anyone invests time and money in development, they need three things: a clear understanding of the problem they are solving and who needs it, the ability to frame the challenges and risks involved in bringing it to market, and a commitment to the funds, time, and mindset to take on that journey.

This workshop helps you get there.

What you will take away ;

  • Clarity on the problem you are solving, who it is for, whether the market needs it, and whether it can be profitable
  • An honest, structured view of the risks involved in taking your idea to market, and help in creating challenges for you to take away and solve
  • Confidence in your next steps and what to do first
  • Two months of Expert Chat access, informed by decades of real product development practice, one month prior to the event, one month after
  • A cohort of peers who have signed an NDA and are on the same journey
  • Stefan Knox

    Stefan is a product innovation mentor and founder of Bang Creations, an agency that helps inventors, start-ups and SMEs transform ideas into profitable products.

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    Having licensed over 23 inventions and launched multiple million-selling product lines, Stefan is also author of the AI-enhanced Design Compass tool, empowering entrepreneurs to make confident design decisions, de-risk development and bring sustainable innovation to market with lasting impact.

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