United States

UX Design

Product Design

Bachelor of Arts - BA

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Aaron Cecchini-Butler

Lead Product Designer

Product strategy

Design systems

Product roadmap

Figma

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

• Manages design for Flash product which generates over $100M annually (with 1 direct report)
• Leads mobile design for the Allē app with 12K-5 star reviews on the Apple app store, 7M active users
• Designed feature that’s projected to generate $13M in revenue over the next 12 months
• In collaboration with Marketing tribe, released a marketing tool that generated $10M in revenue in the first 6 months

Increased report downloads by 30% through design of dashboard
• 15/16 users were either “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with dashboard (1/16 felt “neutral”)
• Designed interactive widgets that achieved 80% end-user engagement, enhancing user experience and driving measurable impact
• Supported other teams with data visualization needs and led UI alignment initiative across design org

Co-owned Cookbook, Grubhub’s mature design system.
• Reported to Director of Design, presented weekly to VP of Design
• Designed, maintained, and documented components, patterns, and foundations 
• Designed the visual/functional direction of the product (“north star”) in many areas such as menu and home
• Strategized the rollout of large scale changes, calculated ROI of design system to prioritize roadmap, held weekly office hours to support product designers

Owned Rhino’s design system “habitat” and contributed feature work.
• Created and maintained design tokens
• Designed foundational library of reusable components
• Designed an internal tool that reduced time-on-task by over 50%
• Collaborated with PMs and developers to help improve processes at a mid-stage startup, as well as ship components and features to production

• Designed features including home, payment preferences, pay/scan, rewards store, checkout, review order, menu – and more – used in 80+ branded restaurant apps including brands like Nando's, Pret a Manger, Caffe Nero, Wendy's, and many other household names
• Led the design system creation for Grubhub’s enterprise products – requiring stylable and flexible components
• Reduced time to launch by over 95% across design and engineering
• Maintained detailed design system documentation

Curriculum Development 
Running Enrichment Activities 
Communicating effectively with students and their parents

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