United States

Alla Odeianenko

Sr Product Designer

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

Building balanced teams

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

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

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

Launching new products or features

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

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

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

- Design lead for a few mature protects within Google Cloud team.
- Serving as subject-meter expert & lector in Google for Startups.
- As gMentor I help others to grow and evolve with their career aspirations.
- Helping candidates to have their best interview experience.🤩

As a Lead product designer, I'm responsible for all product design-related activities across platforms. 
- Responsible for achieving product key metrics ( through design part)
- Initiates research and validation on all stages ( brand new and improving existing features )
- Squad's planning and features prioritisation for individual product streams
- Product features delivery and support
- Facilitating discovery & ideation workshops and any collaborative activities 
- Mentoring and helping in design team professional grow

My additional passion is - sharing my practical experience with design community. This course aimed for designers who are looking for boosting their skills on a real project with real clients to solve product problems. We are learning on practice how to plan all project stages and which methods will be best to apply.

My responsibilities include few groups or areas where I'm currently involved such delivering and management :

Project-related activities:
- Leading the project team
- Creating and supporting project vision/roadmaps
- Discovery and post stages workshops 
- Users interviews and testing
- Close collaboration with clients and dev teams
- Supporting and delivering of all stages

Managing related:
- Presales activities and staffing
- Project/clients consultancy
- Mentoring people and grow
- Education activities such as juniors laboratories.
- Public speaking events that bring more transparency to our department )

and many more)

Supporting all project's steps from definition, research till the evaluation and user testing.
Collaboration closely with client's team and developers. On-site experience included.
Working by scrams methodology.

Experience with this areas : Finance, Enterprise, Pharma, Education, HR, Health/Care and other.

Mentoring new team members

One of the Sphere's Inc client/project.

I taken part there like full UX/UI designer.
Has on daily basis communication with stakeholders.
Worked closely with dev department on implementation stage.
And post implemented analyses phase.

Support live projects & clients.
Taken part with new projects and expertise analysis.

During this year I was collaborative with wide range companies with a part-time work. Consulting and execute their projects in such business domains:  HR, Pharma, Enterprise, Education, Finance, Sport/Health

Worked for one the client side.
Supporting and improving all UI/UX project needs

chief designer
Digital project,
Supporting clients in social media

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