Building Your Perfect Career Path
In the webinars below, you will learn:
- How to grow your designer career
- How to build your professional network and personal brand
- How to develop your own path to leadership
Are you in need of CEUs? Procrastination gets the best of all of us sometimes. Before the clock strikes on December 31, earn your IDCEC credits by watching the recent webinars below, on topics ranging from career development to sustainability to inclusion. Whatever your interests might be, chances are you’ll see them reflected below.
Collective Design: How to Leverage that First Job
For young adults — or older ones embarking on a second career — that first paid design job can serve as a crucial rung on the career ladder. IIDA convenes design experts at different career points to discuss what to expect when you’re growing a design career, and how to do it right. Watch here
The Art of: Landing the Job
The ability to prepare for and interview effectively is an essential skill for everyone. Whether you’re an emerging designer or a seasoned professional, this program will equip you with the skills and confidence to achieve your career goals and land the job. Watch here
The Art of: Effective Presentations (members only)
Whether pitching to potential clients, delivering a project update, or speaking at a conference, the ability to communicate ideas effectively can have a lasting impact on your career. Learn how to master the art of presentations with IIDA in a conversation led by IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO, Cheryl S. Durst, Hon. FIIDA. Watch here
Building Your Brand (members only)
Your personal brand can be one of your most valuable career tools — and in this webinar we’ll teach you how to develop a brand that helps you stand out. Learn from a panel of design leaders and hiring managers offering tips and tricks to help you take the next step in your career. Watch here
Women in Design Leadership: Pushing Boundaries, Reaching Success
What does the path to design leadership look like? IIDA convenes highly accomplished women design leaders to share their design origin stories, the best advice they’ve ever received and key strategies to forge your own path to leadership. This episode is sponsored by Tarkett. Watch here
Building a Sustainable Future
In the webinars below, you will learn:
- How to implement best practices and key strategies to boost sustainable practice
- How sustainability impacts human health through bathroom design
- How biophilic design can promote human well-being
Collective Design: How to Design Sustainably Now
IIDA convenes a panel of experts and sustainability leaders to discuss best practices for sustainability, key strategies to boost sustainable practice now and lay the groundwork for a more sustainable future.
This episode is sponsored by Interface. Watch here
Collective Design: How to Design a Bathroom
Public bathrooms can tell us a lot about society, from changing cultural norms to shifting attitudes around modesty and gender equity. IIDA convenes a panel of experts to explore how to craft better bathrooms, and how our changing world prompts shifts in lavatory use and design. Watch here
Biophilic Design: 14 Patterns for the Built Environment
Design experts discuss the science of biophilia to explore how it can promote healthier environments and furniture. This discussion aims to share how biophilic design can inspire new and innovative projects benefiting our well-being. Watch here
Building a Better World
In the webinars below, you will learn:
- How to design in a way that embraces user differences
- How design can be a tool to help address the housing crisis
- How to design for neurocognitive challenges in senior living spaces
Collective Design: How to Design a More Inclusive Future
IIDA convenes a panel of experts to explore inclusive design and offer practical advice on how to design in a way that embraces all of our differences, from gender to race to neurodivergence, and other aspects of identity. Watch here
Collective Design: How to Design Your Way out of a Housing Crisis
We assemble a panel of urban designers and other industry experts to discuss how design can contribute to resolving the housing crisis and creating a future with new solutions and better options for all. Watch here
Aging Well: Designing for Neurocognitive Challenges
IIDA gathers design leaders to discuss how to create comfort, safety, and community in senior living design, particularly for those with neurocognitive challenges. Explore ways to widen access to quality care and community amid the housing affordability crisis. This episode is sponsored by Tarkett. Watch here