United States

UX Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Generalist Product Management

Interaction Design

UX Testing

Master of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

Brian Verhoeven

Head of Design

Product strategy

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Design systems

Information architecture

User research

Product roadmap

SurveyMonkey

UserTesting

Asana

Figma

UserZoom

Communication

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Project management

Usability Testing

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

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

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

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

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

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

Conducting good user research

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

Design career path

Provides direction, support and coaching to design managers, designers, user researchers, content strategists, brand designers to drive operational excellence across strategic alignment, product processes, and staff management.

- Lead the strategic direction and serve as executive champion of our design system: designsystem.morningstar.com
- Ensure design solutions meet business objectives
- Collaborate with other design leaders to coordinate, set, refine and monitor design goals
- Coach and lead UX discipline across consumer product organization
- Improve design processes and team collaboration within Agile software delivery and design-thinking
- Translate business objectives  into tactical plans
- Grow design team skill set and coach individual contributors toward mastery
- Ensure user-centered best practices are being across products
- Nurture design community and our relationships with others throughout the organization
- Measure and track performance of design teams

- Lead and mentor the UX design team
- Design and oversee existing and future user experiences for HelloWallet’s product(s)
- Develop wireframes, sketches, diagrams, designs, prototypes with and without clear direction
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, users, customers, researchers and other designers to deliver award-winning experiences
- Advocate, design and plan qualitative and quantitative design experiments for our products
- Be a user-advocate during the entire development process

Inspired a talented team of UX designers to do their best work across a product suite focused on helping our audiences attain financial wellness.

HelloWallet was a Morningstar Product.

I was responsible for fostering and supporting a culture of creative collaboration across Forum One’s service areas to provide value beyond the digital product to our client organizations. During my time time at Forum One, I helped grow the design team from four to twenty three staff. 

I worked with Forum One’s senior leadership to demonstrate our design expertise, define new service offerings, and contribute to corporate management of the company. I was responsible for maintaining the design team's budget and demonstrating the need for further investment by building business cases. I also ensured that we staffed our projects with the designers with the right expertise and created partnerships with others in the design community when we did not have the expertise required for a given project.

Develop compelling online user experiences by helping clients engage their most important audiences through conducting extensive audience analyses; developing audience-centric information architecture; creating elegant and effective visual designs.

Conducted user research, designed and launched first Digital obituary 
Supported multi-million dollar advertising business by designing UI of Classified Self-Service 
Led interaction design for Subscriber Self-Service

Designing user experiences for ICF clients.

Brian Verhoeven🇺🇸