Deanna Alcorn🇺🇸

About Deanna Alcorn

Senior Product Design Manager at Stitch Fix

Design leader with proven success growing the careers of design professionals through managing, teaching and mentoring. As one of the first design hires at Stitch Fix, I played a pivotal role in maturing the design practice and building a strong, adaptable team culture as the company went public and grew to over $2B in annual net revenue. I look forward to guiding and empowering you with the mindsets, tips and practices that will increase your own impact and job satisfaction as you grow in your career.

Expertise

Sessions with Deanna Alcorn

• Mock Presentation & Feedback (40 min): Get ready for your next presentation! Whether it's for a stakeholder or job interview, you’ll have a chance to practice your communication and presentation skills and receive feedback. Open to UX/Product Designers of all levels, as well as UX/Product Design managers.
• Low-Cost Session for the Unemployed (30 min): Open to all product design topics. What's on your mind? What would you like support around?
• Open Topic (30 min): What's on your mind? In what areas would you like to grow or get support?
• How to Foster Design Team Culture (30 min): A strong design team culture sets the foundation for job satisfaction and high performance. Whether you're an individual contributor or a manager, you can influence the culture of your team and the broader design organization. Bring your questions or specific challenges, and I'll help you identify methods to strengthen your design team culture.
• Targeted Portfolio Feedback (30 min): Open to all levels of UX/Product Design I.C.s: Bring specific questions related to your portfolio. I can give feedback and provide insights into how a hiring manager might evaluate your work.

What mentees say

“I've met on a recurring basis with Deanna since December, with the goal of gaining insight into how to improve/optimize my cross-functional collaboration and communication skills. She's great at active listening and providing frameworks for thinking about areas of improvement.”

“Deanna was an engaging mentor to speak with. I showed a snippet of what I was working on and she immediately had some great design suggestions. I think she is especially good at weaving in the right amount of insights and context for the moment. I had a lot of fun, highly recommend to founders or those who want to better understand the world of design”

“I had an amazing mock interview with Deanna. She is a true pro! She asked me for a few role descriptions that matched my search criteria ahead of time and my resume! As a result, our 30-minute session was extremely productive and insightful. We did a short debrief at the end that I found extremely helpful. Deanna spotted my weak spots and gave me improvement tips.”