Canada

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Growth Design

Anna Maria Hall

Senior Product Designer

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Design systems

User research

Product roadmap

Asana

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

Miro

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

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

Being a woman in tech

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

Keeping team members motivated

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

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

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

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

- Planned and led the end-to-end design for 4 fintech products from ideation to final implementation.

- Delivered an engaging and seamless user experience by collaborating cross-functionally with product, marketing, sales, and dev teams.

​​- Achieved improvements in conversion rate optimization, user experience, and design responsiveness by conducting UI/UX audits.

- Streamlined the time it took the team to go from concept to feature implementation by aligning internal and external stakeholders.

- Optimized dev team coding time by implementing better design systems and detailed product specifications.

- Reduced overall project delivery time by 30% by implementing a more efficient design process including product strategy, design outline, roadmap, and feature prioritization.

- Mentored junior designers to grow their skillset and increase their confidence in their work, by collaborating with them throughout the product design process, resulting in higher-quality design work.

- Conducted user interviews to gather valuable insights resulting in a significant increase in user onboarding completion rates and overall time spent in the app.

- Aligned key business goals with the design of new app features based on customer needs, which helped to improve the overall user onboarding experience. 

- Oversaw product development from concept to implementation by prioritizing the design of new features and app updates.

- Worked directly with the Development team and CEO to ensure the technical feasibility of designs, achieving a successful implementation of new app features.

- Increased the user conversion rate for new user signups by over 37% by quickly A/B testing new design features.

- Maintained a high level of design consistency throughout the app by implementing the use of a design system using Figma which provided the front-end framework for the dev team.

- Improved the UI/UX of websites and mobile apps for clients in industries such as Fintech, E-Commerce, Human Resources, Machine Learning, and Dating by providing expert design guidance.

- Worked collaboratively with clients to create and maximize their product design processes, achieving a more efficient and effective approach to product development.

- Performed product audits and offered customized solutions that addressed specific design challenges, obtaining an increase in product design quality, and higher user retention rates.

- Carried out user and market research to gain valuable insights into user needs and industry trends.

- Prepared and coordinated the product development cycle from ideation to post-launch design iterations, resulting in successful product launches and ongoing product improvements.

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