Philippines

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Product Design

Entrepreneurship Development Program

Bachelor of Science Degree in Commerce

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Brian Dys Sahagun

Principal UX Designer, DesignOps Lead

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Leadership

WordPress

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

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

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

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

Managing a remote team

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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

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

Being a woman in tech

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 successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

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

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

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

• Ever since I was welcomed in Amazing Design People List, I’m having more opportunities to help my fellow practitioners in the tech industry. It is by sharing what I know and what I’m experiencing that coincide with what they are exploring — commonly among them — navigating their way in or into the world of user experience (UX).
• https://www.briandys.com/sharing-with-the-design-community/

• DesignOps, Team Management, Recruitment, UX design work in web & mobile banking, innovations.
• An aspect of team management entails ensuring that project needs are matched by team capabilities. Through the support in their professional development, individual designers are able to fulfill the roles that comprise a strong team.
• https://www.briandys.com/tag/avaloq/

• Led the design for the small-to-medium enterprise product, PayMaya Negosyo.

• Co-founded Aboo, an audiobook platform for Filipinos, as part of IdeaSpace 2016 cohort. Led the product design of the Android app.

• Led the design team for flagship products such as Freenet and Midas enterprise app.

• Designed and developed in WordPress the government website for roadway construction projects, MM Roadway. Helped the Philippine government transition the old MMDA website to the standard one for all government agencies.

• Led the team who designed the user experience  of web and mobile applications such as Smart PowerApp and Chikka Text Messenger across various platforms (desktop, web, mobile); conducted workshops on front-end design.

• A freelance, self-proprietorship business that helped businesses of various sizes and individual professionals establish their presence on the internet through websites and blogs.

• Designed the school’s corporate brand identity; designed and developed the school website; headed the production of the school yearbooks --- from studio photography to layout and publishing.

• Led a team of web and print designers; designed and developed corporate websites; maintained static and Flash websites of clients.

• Part of the pioneering team of designers in the company; designed real estate and corporate websites.

• Designed Flash banner ads; designed and developed websites of INQ7.net; maintained intranet sites of partner printing companies.

• Designed photo gallery website templates for clients; maintained partner websites of the company; managed website contents of partner websites.

• Conducted a university-focused survey regarding media (TV, radio, print) habits of students as part of a thesis (Granny Goose Tortillos advertising campaign).

Brian Dys Sahagun🇵🇭