Top 10 Courses for Products Managers — From Data to Design, and More

LearnUX is a great place to get started if you’ve got no background in design. Their selection of courses take you right from the fundamentals of good UX design, through to tools like Invision, Framer, and Abstract. It also includes a workshop on basic HTML and CSS, ending with you building your own landing page.

Design+code offer courses best suited to those who already have some experience or a background in design, and are looking to improve. With their courses, you can really dive deep on a specific topic.

Do Product Managers need to be able to understand and write code? Not at all! It’s not your job to actually build the product. But it is your job to work with a tech team to ensure they’re building the right thing in the right way. Knowing code will help you feel more confident expressing your ideas and point of view, and will generally make communicating with your teams easier.

SuperHi offer a Foundation HTML, CSS + Javascript course , which is best suited to those with a bare minimum understanding of code, and takes you through 8 weeks of coding projects.

CS50 was born from instructor David J. Malan’s belief that anyone can learn computer science. It’s a free, online, self-paced version of Harvard University’s Intro to Computer Science, and requires absolutely no previous programming knowledge.

Elements of AI is a relatively new course, but already has 430,000 students enrolled from 170 countries. Another free course, this one takes you through things like solving problems with AI, the Bayes rule, how neural networks are built, and the societal implications of AI.

This is Google’s free crash course on all things Machine Learning , broken down into easy-to-find video classes. Stacked with cases studies, lessons from real machine learning practitioners, and hands-on exercises, it’s a great introduction to ML.

Data science is one of the subjects that looks the most intimidating to those who aren’t in the know. But the whole world is built on data, and that’s especially true in the product world! Time to dive in!

This course is best designed for those with a base knowledge of data who are looking to pick up some new knowledge. Whether Thats probability fundamentals in R, optimizing code performance on large Datasets, or optimizing Postgres databases.

This course has been Archived for now, but you can still access the course content. You'll come away from this course with a new appreciation of Statistics, and the ability to ‘ think like a statistical detective ’.

For some, Product Management is their first real leadership role, which can be a learning curve. For some, leadership is a collection of soft skills that you can only pick up through being a leader. But if something can be learned, it can be taught.

Shaw Academy offer an online leadership course , which does a great job of asking the question ‘ are you a manager or a leader ?’

The course structure takes you all the way from a brand new leader, to proficiency, so there’s something in here for professionals at every level. We particularly recommend the final few classes on ‘Leading Through Change’ which will be especially helpful in 2020!

If you’re serious about crafting a career in leadership, the certificate in leadership and management from Upskilled is a great investment. This Australia based company offers a range of creative, technical, and business courses, and we particularly recommend their leadership course.