United States

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Clara MacDonell

Freelance designer

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Team player

Project management

Illustration

User research

Adobe Illustrator

Figma

Sketch

Organisation skills

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

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

Being a woman in tech

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

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 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

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Founder of a design consulting  and arts business.

I built user experiences to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, exploring new categories for the product to expand to so that all of our Retailers and Brands could succeed and grow.

I lead the content group in design strategy and ux improvements, working to better understand our user group and continuing to gain more great content on our platform.

I worked on the collaboration solutions team to build out the UI and UX for collaboration software. I also was trained as a design thinking facilitator.

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