Canada

Product Design

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Interaction Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Design Research Techniques

BDes with Honours

Federico Galindo

Lead Product Designer & UX Researcher

Usability Testing

Typography

Quantitative research

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Organisation skills

Customer service

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Human computer interaction

User research

Optimal Workshop

SurveyMonkey

Trello

Adobe Photoshop

Airtable

Asana

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Mural

Time management

Team player

Conflict resolution

Critical-thinking

Branding

Accessibility

Design systems

Product roadmap

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

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

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

Managing a remote team

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management 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

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

Working with product managers, researchers, and clients from various industries to discover and deliver global digital experiences. Coaching designers and improving design processes and practices.

Creating product design educational online content for mentorship online classes

Mentoring product managers, developers and designers in a 6-week program.

Working with product managers, researchers, and clients from various industries to discover and deliver global digital experiences.

Mentoring product managers, developers, and designers in a 6-week program.

As product designer and researcher , I’ve been helping to build a business-driven web application along with other interactive learning products. I’ve been responsible for gathering and synthesizing user research, creating wire-frames, designs and prototypes as well as leading projects through high fidelity designs to production.

As product designer, I’ve been helping to build a business-driven web application along with its interactive learning management system. I’ve been responsible for gathering and synthesizing user research, creating wire-frames, designs and prototypes as well as leading projects through high fidelity designs to production.

As lead in-house designer, I designed, developed and maintained the business web-site. In addition, I art directed various print and media marketing pieces.

As web designer and front-end developer, I maintained and updated the department’s web-site, fixed technical bugs, and created new interactive content.

I ran a freelance design practice that offered interaction design, product design, identity design and front-end development services for a variety of local clients, designing and developing web-sites and interfaces.

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