Canada

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Product Design

UX Testing

Amos Shaw

Founder

Product strategy

Prototyping

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Branding

Design systems

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

HTML

Jira

Miro

UserTesting

Mural

Trello

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Notion

Optimal Workshop

Sketch

Communication

Collaboration

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Brand positioning

Illustration

User research

Usability Testing

Typography

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

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 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

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

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

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

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

Creating a product vision

Founded and operate a fractional design studio, partnering directly with founders and leadership teams to shape product, brand, and culture from the ground up.

Lead Designer overseeing brands like Toronto Life, Maclean's and Chateline, that reach 23+ million readers. 

As UX Designer on the Digital Customer Experience team, we provide UX/UI services across the organization supporting Sunlife.ca and Sunlife.com. Responsibilities have included building out the Global Design system in Sketch/Invision and serving as Lead Designer for a complete redesign and rebuild of the Employee hub for 30k employees.

Co-founded a multi-platform kids project that was in development with CBC Kids and TFO's Luv studio as a reality based gameshow. Worked in partnership with FanExpo, Jam3, Ryerson TMZ, ROM, Ontario Science Centre and MakerFaire to produce experiential mobile games for families and kids of all ages.

Led an overhaul of the company's design system migrating all design work to Sketch to maximize efficiency with the Engineering team. Was responsible for hiring and managing the Toronto Design team for this fully remote peer-peer marketplace for student notes.

Oversaw all Design work including mobile games for YTV, websites and the production of two major internal CMF funded projects.

Design lead responsible for updating website, marketing material and overseeing the UX of Tineye's first web application.

As Lead Designer I was tasked with revamping the Brand identity and working on the UX for the world's most downloaded e-reading app. Good times!

Amos Shaw🇨🇦