United States

Dana

UI/UX Designer

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

Resized files to be compatible for different platforms and created Instagram campaign images. Practiced flexibility and organization through remote work and working independently. Utilized design and branding skills by following their guidelines. Posts generated 400 to 800+ likes on Instagram.

Create Campus Residences banners and various promotional graphics seen and utilized by thousands of students that promote a community and diversity.

Update the Student Activities and Student Life website daily utilizing OUCampus. Create various graphics for the department within Student Activities with the Adobe Creative Suite.

Created layout and graphics using Adobe InDesign for the only undergraduate scientific research journal on campus. Used visual and aesthetic knowledge to update the journal’s appearance to increase interest. Executed leadership through delegating deadlines and sharing critique to the layout team.

Utilized conceptual skills by branding RSP according to the university by providing graphics regarding safety on campus. Created graphics that hundreds of students will see to remind them to lock their bikes, how safe the university is, how to prevent safety, and fire prevention on campus.

Created brochures for a hospital in Long Island, New York. Created mock layouts for OASIS hotels in Cancun.

Resize print, digital ads/layouts, and package files for print/production for the university. Designed flyers, ads, postcards, brochures, and other promotional materials to advance Stony Brook University and it's departments using Adobe InDesign. Researched departmental photo library (Portfolio) and iStock for images needed for projects and worked in a tight deadline workshop environment. 

Utilized design and branding skills through the Stony Brook University Dental School banners, the Provost Lecture series posters, and other Stony Brook related advertisement that thousands of students would view.

Fostered a community for students living in Stony Brook University by creating programs and providing a support system and communication. Utilized conflict management by resolving problems within the residence halls. Provided information about diversity, mental wellness, academic success, civic engagement, safety, and the campus to students living in residence halls.

Utilized creative thinking by creating graphics such as Snapchat Geofilters, fliers, and promotional graphics to promote campus wide events such as the Post Malone concert, the Trevor Noah lecture series, and events which are popular among students using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Executed flexibility by creating fliers, logos, and geofilters for organizations and clubs funded by USG when requested. Practiced following branding by making material in accordance to the university branding for USG to use.

Created a community for graphic design and free design and critique on campus. Designed logos, banners, fliers, jerseys, and various projects for clubs and organizations on campus to better the aesthetics and design of the community. Promote graphic design to the campus by creating workshops for students to learn about the fundamentals of design.

Designed graphics and fliers using Photoshop and Illustrator to brand the organization. Implemented branding strategies and purchase promotional items to increase attendance  such as punchcards and creating apparel for the students to win. Created graphics for the website to become more aesthetically appealing. Created social media initiatives and use social media to engage the campus community.

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