Canada

UX Design

Chris Torregosa

Senior UX Designer

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Advanced data analytics

AI/ML

Figma

Hotjar

Miro

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

I mentor fellow designers who need career advice, interview techniques, and anything that can help them grow in the industry, which helps me grow as well. The topics I cover are along the lines of DesignOps, UX design, and user research. If you need mentorship in design, and you think I can probably help with, feel free to visit this link: https://adplist.org/mentors/chris-torregosa 😊

Interaction design, design leadership, user research, information architecture

I worked closely with business stakeholders and developers in delivering products for Postnord's private and business users. My role demands to work on different skill sets such as user research, usability tests, UX design, and visual design.

Lexmark is an international printer-manufacturing company with research and development facilities in United States, India and Philippines. Its main business circles around printers and software solution behind it. The design teams on different countries worked together on improving the usability and experience of the users.
My role is to conduct UX research which encompasses competitive analysis, journey maps, user persona, moderated usability testing and designed information architecture, wireframes and prototypes for web apps and printer panels.

Motivosity is a company-wide social platform for appreciating co-workers with with gift cards and rewards.
My roles:
- Work from concept, research to final production of UX/UI of web and mobile app
- Develop, maintain and adhere to our brand style guides 
- Collaborate with the marketing dept. for design assets such as email campaigns, posters and brochures.
- Collaborated with dev team on the implementation of UX and UI improvements.
- Designed and prepared marketing assets.

Chris Torregosa🇨🇦