United States

UX Design

Master's Degree

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)

Ewa Karweta

Director of User Experience

Usability Testing

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Analytical skills

AI/ML

Branding

Conversational AI

Chatbot

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

User research

Product roadmap

Trello

Adobe XD

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Mural

Team player

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

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

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

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

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

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

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

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

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 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

Lead Large Teams in delivering Design Solutions for Clients. Established a Design Studio, Design Ops practice, defined Design Career Progression, led Design Thinking Workshops, Defined Design and DT Education, oversaw delivery of a robust Design System, evangelized Design across the enterprise. Led a total of 40 globally dispersed designers to deliver 22 research studies, 16 design thinking workshops, 14 user journeys and 32 high fidelity prototypes across 12 enterprise platforms spanning from Legal and HR, IT, Operations, Supply Chain, Field Work and more.

Lead small teams in delivery of enterprise software redesigns including UX research, wireframing, prototyping, white labeling etc. Collaborated with Client Senior Management, IBM Executives, Business Analysts, Front and Backend Engineers on Enterprise Wide Digital Transformations. Run Design Thinking Workshops with Senior Management and Employees. Participated in the Recruiting process for IBM iX.

Delivered wireframes, site maps, high fidelity designs, prototypes etc. for Clients. Collaborated with Engineers and Business Analysts.

Designing posters, CD covers, marketing materials, business cards and events for small local companies, bands and individuals.

Ewa Karweta🇺🇸