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Growth Lab for Women in Design
A 4-week programme where you bring the real situations you're dealing with—from promotion cases and difficult stakeholders to interviews and proving your impact—and work through them with an experienced designer.
10 spots · 4 weekly live sessions · Private 1-to-1 · Lifetime Learning Hub access
Stop wondering if you're ready for the next level
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Trying to get promoted?
Bring your promotion case. We'll find what's missing and practise the conversation with your manager.
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Your work keeps getting challenged?
Bring the project. We'll look at how you're presenting your decisions and prepare for the next stakeholder conversation.
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Not sure you're senior yet?
We'll look at what you're already doing, what the next level requires and what evidence you're missing.
Different problem? Bring it. The programme adapts to what your group needs.
Programme
This isn't a fixed curriculum
You bring what’s happening in your career right now. We work through it together, you try something in the real world, then bring the result back the following week.
The programme adapts to the goals of your group, so you’re working on real situations — not made-up exercises or generic coursework.
1h Group Session
Online
Week 1
Meet the group and analyse what’s holding you back.
Learn more
Share the career challenge you want to solve and where you want to get to. Before you start, we'll send you a form to place you in the right group. We’ll look at what’s happening now, what you’ve already tried and what may be missing.
Your first action might be: finding out how promotion works in your company, asking your manager what the next level requires, or gathering feedback you’ve already received.
Your goals help shape what we work on over the following three weeks.
1h Group Session
Online
Week 2
Bring the real work or situation you're struggling with and get live feedback.
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Bring something real: a project you’re struggling to get approved, a promotion case, portfolio story, stakeholder problem or feedback you don’t know how to act on.
We’ll work through it together and identify something specific to change, try or find out before the next session.
That might mean: rewriting how you explain your impact, finding the metrics behind a project, or speaking to your PM about taking on more responsibility.
1h Group Session
Online
Week 3
Practise before it matters.
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Bring a conversation you need to have at work or in your job search and practise it before you have it for real.
It could be asking for a promotion, presenting a design decision, handling stakeholder pushback or answering a difficult interview question.
We’ll challenge your argument, role-play the response and help you communicate it more clearly and confidently.
1h Group Session
Online
Week 4
Turn feedback into your next move.
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Come back with what happened. What worked? What didn’t? What are you still stuck on?
We’ll review your progress, solve what’s still getting in the way and decide what you should focus on next.
You’ll also prepare the biggest question you want to take into your private 1-to-1.
1h Personal Session
Online
1-2-1 mentorship
Use your private 1-to-1 to tackle your biggest career challenge with a mentor who already knows your work.
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By now, I already know your goals, work and challenges — so you won't spend half the session explaining your background.
Use the hour where you need it most: build your promotion strategy, review your portfolio, prepare for an interview, work through a difficult situation or decide what you need to do to reach your next level.
You leave knowing what to do next.
Who is this for?
You're a great designer, but you know
great design alone isn't enough.
// Maybe you…
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have been designing for years but still don't feel senior
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do good work but struggle to show its business impact
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feel stuck at your seniority level
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feel like you have to prove your decisions more than you should
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are ready for more responsibility but aren't sure what's missing
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keep getting interviews but not the job
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want more say in what gets built
Meet your mentor
Your design mom, Stacey
Stacey Nova • Lead Product Designer • Founder of PixelPerfect • Founder of Semiology Design Studio • Guest lecturer at LSE and Hult Business School • Webby Awards judge
Stacey is the founder of PixelPerfect and a Lead Product Designer who has worked with early-stage founders and global organisations including Mercedes-Benz, Novartis, the NHS, BP and Chanel.
She progressed to Senior Designer within three years, often working as the only designer in the room. That meant learning early how to explain design decisions to non-designers, get founders and leadership behind her recommendations, introduce better ways of working, and connect good design to what the business actually needs.
Since 2018, she has built products from 0→1, introduced design processes and systems into growing organisations, and mentored designers through their own career challenges. She has also lectured at LSE and Hult and serves as a Webby Awards judge.
Her biggest strength is communication: turning design thinking into language that founders, managers and stakeholders understand — and teaching other designers how to do the same.
"I've been the only designer, and the only woman, in the room."
"For much of my design career, I worked in teams where I had to learn how to advocate for design, explain my decisions to non-designers and get people to trust my recommendations.
The biggest change in my own career happened when I worked alongside much more experienced designers. I stopped second-guessing every decision. I learned how to present my work, communicate with stakeholders and operate with confidence when there wasn't another designer in the room.
Today I run PixelPerfect, a community built to give designers access to the kind of support, conversations and experienced people I wish I'd had earlier in my career.
Growth Lab for Women is my way of making that support much more personal.
I won't teach you how to design. I'll help you become more confident in the designer you already are — and make sure other people can see your value too."
This works better than a one-off mentoring session or a course
We don’t want to burden you with extra tasks and projects to do on top of your current responsibilities. We understand that your work takes priority and we are to help with it!
Most courses
Recorded videos
Generic advice
No feedback
No accountability
Growth Ladies
Small cohort
Tailored programme to your needs
Real workplace challenges
Personal career strategy
Designers at a similar level
Practice for your interview
No outdated content
Lifetime access to the recordings from PixelPerfect
How to start
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Secure your spot
Join Growth Lab and complete your £199 payment securely through Gumroad.
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Fill out the form
You'll receive a short form about your experience, current career challenge and what you want to achieve from the programme.
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Get matched
We'll match you with women at a similar career stage who are working through similar challenges, then agree an evening time (GMT) that works best for the group.
Price
Invest four weeks in your career - not years figuring it out alone
This isn't a polished online course. It's an accelerator we're building together.
No made-up homework
Small group of up to 10 women at similar level
Direct access to mentor
Your feedback shapes the future programme
special offer
£399
£199
4 group mentored sessions
1 personal strategy session with mentor
Lifetime access to meetings & event recordings
Small cohort (up to 10 women)
Certificate of completion
or 2 equal monthly instalments of £99.50
Q&A
Is this for me?
This programme is for women in Product Design and UX/UI who already know how to design but want help with what comes next — becoming senior, having more influence, getting promoted or finding a better role.
Do I need to be a Senior Designer?
No. It’s designed for designers who have a few years of experience and are thinking about their next step. You might be trying to become Senior, already be Senior and want more influence, or be considering leadership.
I'm looking for a job. Is this still relevant?
Yes. Bring the roles you’re applying for, interviews you’re preparing for, your portfolio or the feedback/rejections you’ve received. We’ll work out what’s holding you back and practise before the real interview.
What can I bring to the sessions?
Real things you’re dealing with right now: a promotion conversation, difficult stakeholder, presentation, portfolio, interview, case study, feedback from your manager, or a decision you’re struggling with.
What actually happens in the live sessions?
You bring your questions and current challenges. We’ll review work, discuss what’s happening, practise conversations and decide what you should try next. You take that back to work, then come back the following week and tell us what happened.
Will I get individual feedback?
Yes. The group is intentionally small so we can discuss individual situations and work. You’ll also finish with a private 1-to-1 focused entirely on you.
Why is it for women?
Because some career conversations are easier when you’re surrounded by women who’ve had similar experiences. This is a space to talk openly about progression, being heard, confidence, difficult workplace dynamics and figuring out what comes next.
Who is Stacey?
“I’m the founder of PixelPerfect and a Product Designer who’s spent much of my career as the only designer, and always the only woman, in the room. I’ve had to learn how to defend my decisions, communicate with non-designers and earn trust without a senior designer beside me. I created Growth Lab to give other women the career support I wish I’d had.”
Will everyone be at a similar level?
That’s the goal. Before the programme starts, we’ll ask about your experience and what you want to work on, then match you with women at a similar career stage and with compatible goals.
Is this another online course?
No. There are no generic weekly lessons to sit through. You bring what’s happening in your career and we work on it together. The programme adapts depending on what the group needs.
I don't know if I should join now...
Growth Lab works best when you have something real to solve now:
- An upcoming promotion conversation.
- An interview you’re preparing for.
- A project that’s getting pushback.
- A new role where you need to establish credibility.
- A career decision you don’t want to keep postponing.
What if I can't attend one of the sessions?
We’ll record all our sessions and members get to keep the recording forever.
What happens after I join?
Pay → tell us about your goals → get matched with your group → choose an evening time → start the prgramme.