United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Full stack

Interaction Design

Content Creation

Johnson & Wales University

Bryan Veloso

Director of Digital Services & Innovation

bryanvelo.so

Collaboration

Empathy

Team player

Presentation skills

Community management

Video editing

Python

React

Youtube

Figma

GitHub

HTML

JavaScript

Adobe Creative Suite

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

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

Managing a remote team

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

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

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

Being the only designer

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

Working with product and engineering

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

Working with engineers

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

Design career path

My time at VShojo gave me an opportunity I never imagined I'd have — designing experiences that connected virtual talent with their fans in meaningful ways. After two decades of keeping my passion for Japanese idol culture separate from my design career, I finally got to merge these worlds.

The highlight was conceptualizing a convention booth for Anime Expo 2023 that transformed how fans interacted with VTuber talent. I pushed for an immersive three-screen setup that brought fans into the streaming world they knew so well, rather than just having them stand in front of a single OLED television. When the talent shared how much they loved the experience, it validated everything we'd worked toward.

My time at VShojo represented that perfect intersection of my professional skills and personal passions — the kind of alignment you spend a career hoping to find.

At Twitch, I led the design of products for the company's social experience—including the company's initial versions of the Whispers and Friends products. Initiated and assisted in the design of highly-requested end-user features: the popular Emoticon Selector and Theater Mode.

What made my approach unique was becoming a broadcaster myself. I realized that to truly understand what I was designing, I needed to experience it firsthand. This wasn't just user research, it was total immersion. Those early streams revealed insights about the platform that influenced my design decisions in ways traditional research never could.

This period marked a significant shift in my career, planting seeds about how platforms could better support creator mental health and community building, concepts that would become central to my future endeavors.

In charge of leading and influencing the user interface, graphic and web design direction for Automattic's products which include WordPress.com, the downloadable WordPress package and bbPress. Emphasis is put on the primary WordPress product lines.

Assisted colleagues with the design and general maintenance of the company's product lines. Quickly learned and put new PHP, Subversion and SSH skills into practice. Provided insight with different design projects both on and off the web. Headed the design aspect of "non-core" projects and pushed out many standards that were used as the design backbone for current products.

Wrote daily about current events, web technologies, design philosophies and personal happenings. Created a sense of online community in a medium focused on the individual.

Cited the need for value-added business services in addition to the store's core business model. Curated the profit center and responsible for all clients and processes related to the position inlcuding initial evaluations, design and outsourcing to printing companies.

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