United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Interaction Design

Growth Design

Chrissy Pipetti

Head of Design, US

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Leadership

Project management

AI/ML

Design systems

Information architecture

User research

Webflow

Figma

Framer

Jira

Maze

Miro

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Trello

Stakeholder management

Accessibility

Brand strategy

Prototyping

Product roadmap

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

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

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

Launching new products or features

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

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

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

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

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Sadly, my position was eliminated in June of 2023 along with our entire US product team.

Successfully hired and nurtured a high-caliber design team, promoting a sense of community and fostering exceptional talent within the organization.

Developed and implemented a robust white-labeled design system while driving a complete product redesign which gained us 3 new large clients serving over 150,000 employees and a 36% uptick in user engagement.

Led DesignOps initiatives to enhance collaboration, communication, and scalability, resulting in streamlined cross-functional teamwork and the delivery of consistently outstanding product features.

Led a diverse team of design leads and senior designers across various industries and partnerships.

Developed and implemented inclusive, accessible design processes and documentation, while establishing design systems for multiple clients' ecosystems.

Responsibilities: 
• Designed native applications for iOS, Android, and Web using agile, iterative processes
• Produced low-fidelity wireframes, information architecture & navigation systems, clickable prototypes, high-fidelity UI designs, and documentation
• Applied both qualitative & quantitative user feedback to design iterations
• Lead the creation of multiple design systems, ranging from small to large applications
• Interacted with the business stakeholders in order to understand their problems and needs to create & document project feature requirements
• Presented ideas & designs to client stakeholders and internal teams, using audience-appropriate language
• Served as a mentor to junior designers

Responsibilities:
• Used UX/UI skillset to design engaging and effective interactive experiences to client specifications, including landing pages, email campaigns, display ads, logo illustrations, and print pieces
• Used current best practices to develop clean, modular, semantic code for responsive websites 
• Created extensive design & front end documentation 
• Assisted my team with processes to plan project lifecycle from start to finish 
• Served as a mentor for junior designers, providing creative direction and project support

Highlights: 
• Designed a large-scale website for Kindermusik using modular, responsive design techniques. I also wrote extensive documentation to help guide the developers of the site, which the client greatly appreciated. 

• Designed the Hugs Pet Products website and co-designed the Love Cooking website using modular and responsive techniques. Utilized my knowledge of front end development in order to create designs that were easily converted to code. Also assisted in the development of the site, using AngularJS, Bootstrap, Node.js, Grunt, and LESS.

• Assisted in the development of the Fragasso Financial Advisors website, using WordPress, Bootstrap, Node.js, Grunt, and Sass. Also helped to create WordPress templates using PHP. 

• Designed the Flying Cork holiday toy drive website, which effectively created brand awareness for FCM and helped a charitable cause. 

• Designed and developed various landing pages, email campaigns, display ads, logo illustrations, and print pieces for a number of clients.

Developed websites applying responsive design, progressive enhancement, and mobile first techniques with Visual Studio using a .Net MVC framework
 
• Lead the redesign of the Argosy University website
 
• Played an integral part in the planning and front end development of The Art Institutes website redesign
 
• Planned team development phases using Agile Project Management and Microsoft Team Foundation Server
 
• Created wireframes and design comps for The Art Institutes, South University, Argosy University, and Brown Mackie College
 
• Participated in design and testing efforts for landing pages and microsites
 
• Added and managed website content with Visual Studio and a web based CMS

Responsible for all visual communications for this small SaaS startup. Collaborated with a marketing team to grow brand knowledge, generate leads, and increase CTR and website conversions.

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