The future of digital solutions requires more than just technical knowledge—it requires creative thinking and a holistic understanding of design. The Digital Design Professional (DDP) certification goes far beyond traditional design and integrates methods of Requirements Engineering and design to create customized digital solutions.
With the DDP certification, you will learn to design innovative digital solutions that connect people, business, and technology seamlessly.
Find out how, with the right approach, you can drive digital transformation forward and design future-proof products. Immerse yourself in the world of Digital Design and help to shape the digital future!
Digital Design combines design, technical, and creative skills to develop innovative digital systems.
Digital Design views digital as a malleable material that allows you to create solutions that meet both the current and future needs of people and business.
It considers not only the individual product, but the entire ecosystem: business goals, technical feasibility, economic aspects, current or future needs, and the sustainability of the digital solution. This holistic approach ensures that solutions work comprehensively over the long term.
For example, Digital Design is to digitalization projects what an architect is to building a house. Digital Design enables you to take a holistic view and coordinate as a team.
The DDP Foundation level offers you an inspiring introduction to the profession of Digital Design. Learn how digital can be used as a shapable material to create innovative solutions. This foundation training helps you to internalize and immediately apply the principles of Digital Design.
Digital Design Professionals create forward-looking solutions by bringing together technology, business, and people. The focus is on holistic design: the combination of people, business, and technology forms the basis for sustainable digital innovations.
The DDP certification enables you to combine the requirements of the digital world with the necessary technical know-how. Our goal is to provide you—whether you are a UX or CX designer, product owner, requirements engineer, or business analyst—with the tools to actively design the digital future and realize innovative solutions that inspire both people and companies.
With the goal of promoting a holistic and structured approach to the design of digital solutions, IREB has developed the DDP certification to provide professionals with in-depth knowledge of Digital Design.Lösungen zu fördern, hat IREB den DDP entwickelt, um Fachleuten fundierte Kenntnisse im Bereich Digital Design zu vermitteln.Die Entstehungsgeschichte des DDP:
The first major milestone was set back in 2016 during a panel discussion at Bitkom—a discussion about existing roles and challenges in the software industry. Based on the observation that there was a lack of designers in the software industry who were able to take overall responsibility for a digital solution, including its analog (physical) components, the idea of a new job description was born.
To develop the DDP certification, the DDP working group collaborated with a global network of experts from IT, product and industrial design, and software engineering. The DDP certification is based on Bitkom's Digital Design Manifesto.
The DDP certification was developed to bridge the gap between technology, user needs, and business strategies. The certificate was developed to provide a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of Digital Design—from technical architecture and UX to the consideration of sustainability and ethics.
In February 2021, the time had come: the DDP certification was launched.
