United States

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Ava Allen

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

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

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

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

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

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

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

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

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

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

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