Australia

Cert IV

Bacharel of Design

High School

Motion Design

Gigi Ellwood

Lead UX/UI Designer

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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

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

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

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 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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

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

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

Skills: User Experience (UX) · User Experience Design (UED) · User-centered Design · Information Architecture · Mentoring · Prototyping · Figma (Software) · Discovery Process · User Interviews · Interfaces · Wireframing · Process Improvement · Usability · User Interface Prototyping · User Interface Design · Design Thinking

Skills: User Experience (UX) · User Experience Design (UED) · User-centered Design · Information Architecture · Prototyping · Figma (Software) · Interfaces · Wireframing · Usability · User Interface Design · Design Thinking

Working in the Biotech industry, mainly on NPD (New Product Development), as a Senior UX/UI Designer I was responsible not only for designing fluid user experiences from concept stage to prototyping and A-B testing all the way through to user interface and asset creation for various sites, apps & platforms, but also supporting the CMO with brand along with designing communication activities of a variety media for advertising and communication purposes.

I was also responsible for the implementation, maintenance and support for online portal, and commercial websites.

During my time at Ellume I also managed a team of 5 customer support staff during a 6 months period.

All under strictly FDA requirements, as a Senior UX/UI designer I ensured all the projects I led were delivered with a high-standard quality and usability for all.

Concept development, prototyping and defining information architecture for digital Ellume products for all platforms (desktop/tablet/mobile). UI and content design, asset creation, implementation and maintenance for these products.

Leading and managing the creation and development of artworks and assets (branding, pre-press, printing, eDM, social media, etc) for critical marketing campaigns for hotels, pubs and restaurants abroad Australia. As well as maintaining open communication with external stakeholders.
Main clients:

- Woolworths Group
- Coles Group
- Hallmark Group
- Australia Avenue Co.
- Palmerston Golf Club
- Racing Australia

Responsible for designing the architecture, wireframes, user interfaces, implementation, and optimization of app, websites, landing pages, e-commerce as well as maintaining digital assets for marketing campaigns for the brands:

- Telstra
- Squad Athletica
- Artisan Aesthetic Clinics
- Clear Complexion Clinics

Designed the wireframes and UI for first version (Beta version) of the Desygner web and app (desktop and mobile) tools as well landing page for first release.

Research, architecture, wireframes, design, implementation, and optimization of websites, landing pages, e-commerce and systems that are graphically interesting, but also intuitive.

Nominee and Awarded best website of the day worldwide several times through CSS Design Awards and CSS Light.

Leading the design team, creating, implementing, and optimising interfaces that are graphically interesting, but also intuitive for apps, websites, landing pages, e-commerce and B2B systems.

Awarded best website of the day worldwide 3x through CSS Design Awards.
Nominee several times for best website of the day worldwide through Awwwards and CSS Design Awards.


Mains tasks: leading the Design team, researching, creating, implementing, and optimising  interfaces that are graphically interesting, but also intuitive for websites, landing pages, e-commerce and B2B systems.

Awarded best website of the day worldwide 2x through CSS Design Awards.

Main tasks: Design, implementation, and optimization of intuitive interfaces for websites, landing pages, softwares and apps.

Grew new leads, including marketing-qualified leads, by converting site traffic through calls-to-action, landing pages, and lead generation content (including offers). Food photographer creating images of food for use in advertising, menus, cookbooks, catalogues and social media. Designed visual concepts, using digital tools, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform and captivate consumers. Also developed the overall layout and production design for advertisements, brochures, magazines, and corporate internal and external reports and maintaining corporate website.

Branding, research, web design, pre-press, printing, customer service

Branding, research, pre-press, printing, customer service

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