United Kingdom

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Interaction Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Grant McAllister

Senior Staff Product Designer

Usability Testing

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Team player

Presentation skills

Accessibility

Conversational AI

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Product roadmap

Figma

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

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

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

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

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

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

Creating a product vision

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

As part of the experience team, I focus on Deliveroos consumer-facing apps and websites. Making sure that people who come to our app for a treat, lunch, or groceries can do so as easily as possible.

Booking.com is the world’s leading accommodation website. We serve millions of customers all over the world from our headquarters in the center of Amsterdam where we’re looking for User Experience experts to join our front-end team of designers, developers & researchers. 
 
My core responsibility is to combine my knowledge and expertise about UX Design & the goals of the business to deliver a world-class user experience to our diverse, loyal user-base. Working alongside developers, product owners, and fellow designers in taking a data-led approach to UX improvements.

User Experience Designer for Schuh.

Analysing customer behaviour and carrying out user testing to improve the user experience and accessibility of the site and mobile platforms.

Ideation of new projects and features to push online and mobile platforms forward.

Taking care of general front end development and user journeys across the platforms.

A/B Testing to improve the conversion and measure the changes I made as a design to make sure they solved user issues.

As the only web designer I took complete control over the web site design for most of the clients, working on complete redesign, creating new features and improving existing sites across various industries from interior design companies to multi-million pound property administrators to solve user needs while meeting business goals.

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