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Anna

Senior UX Designer

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

Keeping team members motivated

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

Fostering a good team culture

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

Working remotely

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

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 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

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

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

At Google’s Health AI team, I designed products and services that leveraged AI to make high-quality care more accessible to everyone.

I led programs to explore the future of health and brought new ideas to life through thought-provoking stories and inspiring demos. I worked on experimental, early-stage projects focused on identifying new opportunities for Gen AI to meet people’s information needs and created product concepts that reimagined how people make sense of complex topics.

I led UX design for an AI-powered application that helps people understand and make decisions about their skin conditions. This tool was integrated into Google Lens and now helps people around the world every day. I also designed AI-enabled applications to support doctors in detecting eye diseases—tools that are now on track to improve the accuracy and efficiency of eye screening for millions in Thailand.

Throughout my time at Google Health, I focused on making AI technologies more approachable and understandable. I was especially excited about designing new products that tackled hard health problems at scale and exploring how to bring cutting-edge AI technology into people’s hands in a way that empowers them to make better health choices.

Bytefoods manufactures connected fridges, stocks them with the food and places them in offices and public spaces all over the Bay Area. The new tablet interface that I designed provided flexibility in facilitating sales of the last items before they spoil, engaged consumers in dynamic pricing (surge pricing) and simplified the user experience of food discovery and checkout.

My role:
- Unpacked complexity of various requirements (business, data source, engineering restrictions, timeline) and come up with a solution that strikes the right balance of user needs, business objectives, and product insights.
- Worked closely with multi disciplinary team of engineers, content writers, executive team to lead the product design processes from ideation to production.
-Crafted prototypes (paper and interactive) and quickly validated concepts with the team, the stakeholders and the users. 
- Produced high fidelity, production ready designs.
- Collaborated with engineers during implementation phase to ensure the product meets design intent.

Transplant Hero is a monitoring system that promotes medication adherence. Studies conducted at Montefiore Medical Center demonstrated that patients that were using Transplant Hero had better lab results in the early postoperative period when they are at highest risk for medication nonadherence.

My role:
- Actively involving in defining product strategy and product design concept, in planning releases and new iterations. 
- Influencing the shape of the product with research and data while executing design work using high quality wireframes, mockups, user journeys, and interactive prototypes.
- Advocating for design by sharing my work and presenting cross-functionally, while precisely articulating design rationale.
- Creating a unified, end-to-end experience through close collaboration with team members (engineers, designers, product manager).

As a part-time mentor and advisor for the Human-Centered Design introduction class, I am helping students to learn how to design better products.

Worked on a range of activities related to the company’s marketing and growth strategy, establishing company’s office in San Francisco and building Stanfy brand in the USA market.  Coordinated acquisition of new clients and advised them on mobile product vision and design strategy. 

- Advised clients on mobile product vision & product roadmaps
- Developed and implemented company’s business development strategy including strategy for entering a new market - the USA
- Coordinated and mentored marketing and sales team, establishing accounting processes within the company 
- Supported sales efforts to plan projects and present to potential clients
- Managed and developed client relationships, solving conflicts
- Represented the company at the mobile industry events
- Led workshops with client teams to co-design user interface
- Organised and optimised collaborative processes between business development department and project teams

Achievements:
- Learned the value of the team, the power of collaboration and having smart people around
- Built strong company brand on the Eastern European markets 
- Successfully entered a new market, the USA, now the primary source of company's new businesses
- Won several key companies as clients and helped to release more than 30 iOS and Android projects
- Organised effective client engagement and sales processes
- Established client-centered services within the company. Due to that and the great performance of the design and engineering teams, around 80% of the company’s projects are repeatable businesses.
- Organised several mobile entrepreneur community events in San Francisco

Kyivcast is the online project created to present life at Ukraine's biggest city Kyiv through short video stories. Our aim is to introduce the variety of cultural life of Ukraine's capital: beautiful places, interesting events and creative people. Together with my partner and friend Daria Rosyuk I created around 50 cool videos about Kyiv’s life. We did everything starting from writing scenarios and scripts to finishing video production and post production.

http://www.youtube.com/user/kyivcast/videos

- Organised and facilitated event planning, budgeting;
- Coordinated PR and online promotional activities; 
- Fundraising. Planned and coordinated sponsors' activities before and during the event; 
- Created engaging content for the site; 
- Opened and closed the official part of the event;

- User and business research, interaction design, visual design, prototyping, usability tests and creating user interface guidelines for several proprietary projects including 77Academy, 77Finance and 77Tool.
- Development and implementation of creative concepts for clients’ online marketing campaigns.
- Agency brand identity design.

Achievements:
- Designed intranet for 77Academy, a training course on digital marketing for graduates.  
- Re-imagined user experience and implemented it in the easy-to-use user interface for 77 Tool - web application that allows agency's Account Managers to manage multi-channel digital campaigns.
- Created user interface guidelines for some of the company’s products that defined standard user interface guidelines for the creation of new components and ensured user interface consistency.
- Close work on design together with the product manager of 77Finance.co.uk, best buy finance service for UK market, allowed to grow user retention and engagement
- Initiated and implemented product acceptance processes by designers that allowed 

77Agency (http://77agency.com) a full service digital agency with offices in Amsterdam, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, Riga and Sydney. The Agency’s objective is to provide clients with marketing solutions that help them to achieve their goals through the use of the latest digital channels, measuring the results and minimizing the investment risk.

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