Australia

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Copywriting

Branding

Interaction Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Fabio Liberatore

UXfolio

Senior User Experience Designer

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Team player

Presentation skills

ChatGPT

Figma

Monday

Adobe Creative Suite

UserTesting

Sketch

Mural

Stakeholder management

Organisation skills

Critical-thinking

Public Speaking

Design systems

Email writing

LinkedIn writing

User research

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

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

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 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

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

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

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

Key responsibilities: 

- User experience for Officeworks purchase-to-pay shopping cart experience and Officeworks Business

- Conduct user research using analytics reporting, task analysis, and participatory design techniques and leverage that data to create iterative improvements 

- Create interactive designs for complex web applications by the way of page/user flow diagrams, site maps, and interactive wireframes

- Design and delivery of key customer interface projects.

Key responsibilities: 

- Conduct UX research to develop user stories and customer personas which included identifying design solutions to build a unified experience

- Facilitate internal workshops with stakeholders to review user interviews and provide recommendations on large-scale enhancements to UI design

- Conduct user testing interactively using high and low-fidelity prototypes. 

Key achievements: 

- Led a team of 15 engineers to develop a new mobile app for Nintex Promapp. The app was the first of its kind for Nintex Promapp saving customers time, leading to an increase in productivity and the convenience of using the software in a mobile-first-built experience

- Developed and introduced a new colour range of tertiary swatches that improved the colour accessibility of data visualization for Nintex Analytics. This included the research, testing, and analysis of the colour pallet.  The addition of the new colours meant that the Nintex Analytics product was accessible and compliant with customers of low vision

- Drove brand consistency for all icon designs for web and mobile applications which allowed the use of icons across all Nintex brands to become unified and consistent

- Worked with key stakeholders to develop and implement brand and image consistency resulting in greater productivity across the business.

Key responsibilities: 

- Led the design for all print applications and user interface designs. This included implementing design strategies that reflected State specific individuality while keeping the branding identity. 

Key achievements:

- Created multiple mobile and print brand designs across promotions, annual sales events, and signage. Brand designs  that are still current, effective, and producing brand results throughout the 2022 sales period

- Designed Priceline sponsorship designs used in sports arenas and sports uniforms to build increased brand awareness and appeal to different audiences

- Developed in excess of 20 catalogs per year to drive in-store traffic and sales revenue.

Key responsibilities: 

- Managing all national catalog and press advertisement briefs

- Ensuring that studio output was progressing on schedule

- Troubleshooting production and designs issues

- Quality check all artwork 

- Providing stakeholders with department reports and costings

- Develop and maintain internal traffic procedures, approvals, and maintenance of job folders

- Consult with internal proofreaders, promotions team, legal, copywriters, and finished artists.

Key responsibilities: 

- Managing client briefs and workflow through the studio using available resources to meet deadlines

- Schedule and prioritising studio workflow

- Ensuring efficient allocation of resources to meet deadlines

- Encourage and promote the accuracy of all studio artwork

- Brainstorm and design creative concepts as required

- Assist in graphic artwork design 

- Ensure briefs are detailed, well-informed, and clear for designers

- Ensure artwork is set to clients' corporate guidelines and meets industry standards

- Proofreading new jobs whilst safeguarding changes to existing jobs

- Promote efficiency and profitability at all times

- Encourage good morale and a positive work environment.

Key responsibilities: 

- Print and digital design for major events including signage, outdoor and corporate collateral

- Producing graphic content for webpages, page layouts, email designs, and site graphics

- Hosting client functions and corporate events

- Managing, producing, and designing projects from brief to completion

- Ensuring concepts adhered to clients' corporate style guidelines

- Working with a range of media, including photography, to create final artwork

- Designing pitches and sales presentations

- Liaising with clients and external suppliers.

Key responsibilities: 

- Print and digital design work for all Leader Newspapers branded campaigns

- Outdoor executions including event banners, events signage, and billboards.

- Page designs and listing updates for Leader Newspapers real estate insert magazine

- Photoshopping of real estate listed images

- Custom page layouts for clients

- Digital online banners and weekly website updates

- Briefings directly with real estate agents.

Key responsibilities: 

- Print design concepts for sales proposals and new advertising

- Amending existing art including updating and resizing to designs

- Designing for editorial feature layouts

- Creative brainstorming and liaising with clients.

Key responsibilities: 

- Print design concepts for client campaigns

- Digital flash banner designs  

- Amending existing art including updating and resizing to designs

- Job trafficking work amongst team members and work prioritisation.

Fabio Liberatore🇦🇺