United Kingdom

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Site Reliability

Elizabeth Rubel

Senior Interaction Designer

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Accessibility

Information architecture

User research

Unity

Blender

ChatGPT

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Time management

Organisation skills

Leadership

Critical-thinking

Public Speaking

AI/ML

Branding

Cloud computing

Data visualisation

Design systems

Usability Testing

Typography

Quantitative research

Prototyping

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

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

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

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

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

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

Launching new products or features

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

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

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 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

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

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

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

• Strategize, design and iterate on a variety of digital wealth management platforms (both client- and advisor-facing) including goals-based financial planning, portfolio performance, client dashboards, options and margin trading 
• Coordinate with Product Managers, BSAs, researchers, development, and QA teams to meet the highest standard for the company
• Consolidated over a dozen standalone applications into one cohesive system that has reduced time spent on menial tasks

• Conduct research, whiteboard, wireframe, design and test features for an integrated cloud-based platform that identifies sources of client growth at an individual ID level
• Work with Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Product Engineers to visualize various data points into digestible information and to provide insights to users

• Configure and organize data sets from various APIs to provide a seamless platform for hunters and anglers to gain access to relevant information based on geolocation
• Ensure the success of the platform by conducting research, user and AB testing and pivoting based on user needs

• Concept and design digital products for scuba divers including social media platform and activity log application with personalized tracking, eLearning platforms, and marketing website
• Conduct extensive research, create user personas and implement solutions based on analytics and testing

• Information architecture for pharmaceutical website including site maps, wireframes, design exploration, documentation and testing
• Layout for both print and digital projects for direct to consumer and B2B products including a marketing website and tablet application for sales to healthcare practitioners

• Design user experiences for marketing websites - from research and persona building to task flows and storyboards through to wireframing and prototyping
• Work closely with developers and art directors to ensure a cohesive final product

• Participated in concepting and executing original designs for national and international brands including both consumer and B2B brands (Panasonic, Brut, Rita’s Italian Ice, Pert Plus)
• Worked both with teams and independently to deliver a highly creative level of concept development and direction for all projects

• Built print-ready mechanicals for a wide variety of mediums, i.e. magazines, newspaper, POP, direct mail, out-of-home and large format units, packaging, and specialty print items, etc.
• Conducted pre-flight and technical integrity checks on all files originating from the agency, including final review of file specifications prior to release.

• Constructed online and print advertisements that were presented to clients
• Established and developed an original program for future interns

• Conducted interviews and research for various brands to gain insights
• Filmed and edited videos for both clients and the Arnell Group

• Created drafts and final products for clients using Adobe Creative Suite
• Researched branding possibilities for projects

• Acted as back-up photographer on various shoots
• Assisted in photo editing and organized entire digital library

Elizabeth Rubel🇬🇧