United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Content Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

Content Strategy

UX writing

UX Testing

UX Research

Alfred Kahn

Principal

Medium

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Design systems

Information architecture

User research

Product roadmap

Optimal Workshop

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Airtable

Axure

Figma

Lucidchart

Sketch

Time management

Team player

Conflict resolution

Critical-thinking

Analytical skills

Prototyping

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

General mentorship

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

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

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

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

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

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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 set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

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 define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

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

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

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

How to get promoted

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

Design career path

InsideOut is a leadership community custom-built for senior leaders of in-house design, creative and experience teams at high profile brands. Our small format roundtables provide space to connect, collaborate and generate new ways to move business forward, faster.

Transformed the product design team into a strategic business partner:
• Created strategic vision for how the design team can drive WMG business priorities
• Increased effectiveness/impact of design team by coaching and mentoring team to up-level their skills
• Sharpened focus of business by introducing Lean UX techniques

Sharpened focus of the organization and reduced duration of discovery/design by introducing Lean & User Centered Design techniques to focus on critical business and user needs.

Led a multi-disciplinary team (UX, Strategy & Research)
* Elevated the level of design by establishing Design as a peer of Product and Engineering.
• Improved Product Development process
• Created UX Research function to sharpen product/market fit

Drove consistency and efficiency by implementing a design system and governance process paired with a component library – the design system is now being adopted by all Bloomberg web applications.

Worked with clients to drive digital transformation, optimize existing products, and identify product/market fit. Conceptualized product offerings and created simple, elegant yet powerful solutions for consumers and professionals.

Built and led a multi-disciplinary design team consisting of UX, UI, Content Strategy and QA.
• Oversaw design of flagship product voted Best New 2015 Product, resulting in a 15+% increase in sales/revenue
• Increased team efficiency through mentorship (3x output of one team, without increasing team size) 
•Increased effectiveness and autonomy of team by mentoring designers from junior to lead positions

• Reduced time-to-market for products by employing Agile methodologies
• Drove cost savings based on a reduction in call center volume and retiring legacy platforms 
• Fostered team creativity and innovation in alignment with company objectives and leadership guidance

Led teams of user experience designers creating market-leading designs for financial services and public-sector portals and portal-based applications.

Alfred Kahn🇺🇸