United States

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Customer Experience (CX)

Interaction Design

University of Oregon

Derek Shirk

Principal Product Designer

Testimonials

Figma Community

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Design systems

Figma

Framer

Adobe Creative Suite

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

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 create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Prototyping

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

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

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Since launch, played a pivotal role in shaping the consumer web app experience and driving transformative system-level changes within the XD team of 30+ designers. Led with successful designs, systems thinking, thought leadership.

A hybrid designer developer leading the creation of design systems and transactional e-commerce interfaces, yielding consistently high-quality outcomes that earned repeat business from clients.

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About Derek Shirk

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