South Africa

Design Operations

Product Design

Generalist Product Management

Front-end

Back-end

Full stack

Development Operations

Honours in Engineering (B.Eng.(Hons))

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)

Matric

Alexander Oloo

Head of Design

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Leadership

Docker

Figma

GitHub

HTML

JavaScript

REST API

Linear

Node.js

Stakeholder management

Design systems

Usability Testing

Prototyping

Product roadmap

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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

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

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

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

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

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

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

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

As part of the Design Office I work to put the customer experience at the center of what we do. I currently work across multiple product team in the digital landscape with my core focus being the web platforms. I bring UI engineering and prototyping into the human centered design process in order to realize beautiful, scalable, performant and intuitive interfaces. 

Prototyping is fundamental part of our experience design process as it enables us to put the customer at the center of our process. By prototyping experience I can quickly validate our design decisions and determine the effectiveness of our design solutions. Prototyping also enables our agile process by enabling us to fail fast and fall forward. 

From a UI engineering perspective, I bring strong technical and engineering skills to inform the design process and enhance the overall customer experience. I also bring interaction design and human centered design principles to the software development process. I am not only responsible for ensuring that the designed experience is realised when executed but also for bringing designs to life through efficient code and delightful animations.  

I am also involved in the training, development and mentoring of young talent. With a colleague, I run the graduate programme for junior designers as well as UI & prototype engineers.

Content strategy, develop brand awareness, generate inbound traffic

Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science

HTML5 and browser research 
Mobile Web development 
Web application optimisation
Backend development in PHP 
Mobile App development in C# (Windows Phone 7)

Alexander Oloo🇿🇦