Australia

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Bachelor of Design

Design Research

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Jacalin Ding

Principal Product Design Lead // UXD instructor // Youtube: Do Your Thing

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Brand strategy

User research

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

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

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 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

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

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

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

My goal is to support and make an impact for emerging designers. Design Mentor at Amazing Design People List, mentored 60+ designers up to date.

ADPlist was born during COVID19 when a lot of talented designers have lost their job. Another great initiate to help those transitioning in between careers, as well as connecting them to companies who are still hiring.

Book your 30 mins Free mentorship session with me: 📆
https://calendly.com/dingdingding/designer-mentorship?month=2020-06

Lead instructor for UXD
Student mentorship
Bootcamp/Workshop facilitator

I assist business leaders in building design department, fine tune their product process, facilitate CX workshops  & getting the right talent in their design team. 
some responsibilities including: 
Product roadmap
Align brand/business objective with customer values
User research planning and workshops
Prototype and measure 
Facilitate discovery and ideation sprint workshops
Wireframe, user flow, process flow and information architecture
Product creative and visual direction
Build scalable design system 
Facilitate design sprints
Design operation and systemise team workflows
Toptal certified senior designer/advisor

Mox Hong kong's first mobile banking product

E-Learning Instructional Product Designer for Woolmark - UX & UI
- Define the overall flow of Woolmark e-learning for 3 key user types.
- Customer journey analysis, design planning and evaluation of user experience
- Prepare lo-fi, high-fi prototypes 
- Test user experience solutions and evaluate
- UI design and product roll-out management
- Scalable design system & documentation

Lead and designed Lustr, a B2C platform that increases sales for emerging fashion designers by intelligently matching them to fashion-conscious shoppers, facilitating purchases and crowd-sourcing shopper sentiment.

- Communication Design and Branding
- UX/UI research and design for both iOS and Android experiences
- Web app operations experience 
- Marketing website/landing pages
- Design systems
- Product prototyping
- User testing

Kohab is Australia's 1st digital marketplace that connects like minded people to local and global real estate opportunities for co-living, co-investment and co-lifestyle purposes.

- Work closely with stakeholders to ensure that the platform are user centered and effectively implemented.
- Kohab UX, UI design and assets preparation
- Digital marketing creative

www.therushinghour.com
Sustainable / Ethical / Equal / Transparent

We want to create positive change with minimal impact to the world.
From the very start, we've committed to innovation and humanity. We don't believe fashion that gets replaced every season is "Good Design", but rather making quality garments that last season after season, with a sustainable and transparent process.

- Sustainable textile innovation
- One for one: We sponsor 1 girl to school with every full price item sold 
- Making sustainable fashion cool: Utilising the science of recycled textiles and 3D printing technology
- Currently 30% of our pieces are made from rescued cast off fabrics, 25% is sourced from recycled/repurposed materials and 45% from organic and ethically grown fibres.

Mi9 produces products and brands across; online publishing, data strategies, consumer insights, digital design and advertising technologies. 

My role as the Senior Art Director focuses mainly on generating visual concepts in response to clients’ briefs. I worked closely with creative director and copy writers, as well as managed a team of 5-10 designers.

My daily responsibility includes:

-Introducing and applying expert art direction to the visual elements of creative projects
-Ensuring a high standard of visual execution across all media and digital campaigns
-Inspiring and motivating the agency’s clients to be creatively progressive, through the application of fresh and inventive visual work
-Reviewing the work of designers and providing direction and feedback
-Taking ownership of the visual elements of creative work for new business pitches
-Uncovering new ways to incorporate emerging and new media formats into campaigns.

UI, UX, IA Design
Branding Design & Strategy
Digital Strategy
Native App Design
E-commerce Strategy
Experiential Art Direction
Environmental Graphic

Clients: VML |  Twitter  |  Clemenger  |  Webling  | JWT  |  Mi9  |  SBS

Re-branded IKON COMMUNICATIONS
Art Direction across all client campaigns and digital advertising projects.
Facebook Apps design
Create integrated social media campaigns
Create interactive video units
Liaise with creative agencies & publishers nation wide to push campaigns live
Creative support for new client pitches from concepts to finish design
Work closely with all client teams to bring creative projects to life

*winner of New Ikonoclast of the year :)

Rich Media app design
Interactive Design
Mobile App Design
Stakeholder management
Product pitching

Corporate Identity: Brand positioning and design (logos, brand identities, websites, packaging).
Brand Extension: Conceptualised promotional items, events and marketing strategies.
Production Management: Liaised with suppliers to execute all final designs and project management.

Trend Research: Researched and created new prints and all marketing collateral. Ensured all designs emphasised Havaianas’ marketing direction year on year.

Design: Conceptualised and designed new prints, editorial, marketing materials, in-store windows.

Brand Extension: Designed all side events, promotional items and websites with marketing team.

Branding: Brand identity (logo, identity, packaging, signage), design and packaging production.

Jacalin Ding🇦🇺