United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Bachelor of Arts

Brandon Templar

Principal Product Designer

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Stakeholder management

Design systems

Information architecture

React

Figma

GitHub

HTML

JavaScript

Adobe Creative Suite

ChatGPT

Framer

WordPress

Maze

Notion

Time management

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Project management

Analytical skills

Accessibility

User research

Usability Testing

Typography

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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 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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

Working cross-functionally

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

Being the only designer

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

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Deliver elegant, engaging, and intuitive customer experiences for a photography SaaS application with 3,000 monthly active users. Collaborate with a remote, cross-functional team of five using agile methods to deliver prioritized features for users.

Use data-driven and qualitative approaches to solve complex customer challenges. Prototype rapidly and iterate with team as well as users. Refine and deliver enhancements to the customer experience.

Continually improve the product, refactoring and optimizing CSS, squashing bugs, and refining the visual design system. Use Ruby on Rails, GitHub, Bootstrap, and CSS.

Design engaging print advertising campaigns, interactive marketing websites, sales pages, and all other branding touch points and channels. Create and enforce brand standards, ensuring a consistent visual presentation across multimedia.

Collaborate remotely with medium-sized to Fortune 100 companies to create custom, bespoke applications. Create iterative prototypes, hinging on user-centric design, best and innovative patterns; all while using agile methodologies. Present and facilitate design discussions with client and internal teams.

Work closely with UI developers, engineers, and project managers to translate finalized designs into production-ready code by ensuring high visual and functional quality across all viewports and devices. Perform regular rounds of visual QA and provide supporting documentation. Develop clean, semantic markup.

Collaborate with clients and designers to translate my clients' core brand values into elegant interactive experiences. Design branded, strategic interactions that integrate into larger brand strategy and utilize user experience design patterns, and best and innovative practices. Engage with creative directors to anticipate and resolve potential design challenges. Work closely with developers and project managers to deliver high-quality, flawless client deliverables on-time and on-budget. Develop clean, semantic markup.

Full-stack design & development consulting. Collaborate with clients to ideate, refine, and build
comprehensive design solutions. Use popular CMS’s to create an intuitive back-end and empower
clients to edit their site. Provide digital training and support for non-technical clients.

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