Philippines

Product Design

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

UX Research

Information Technology

Associate / Diploma

Jan Harold Diaz

ex-Product Design Lead at PayMongo

Typography

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Project management

Blog writing

Branding

Design systems

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Airtable

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

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

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

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

Building balanced teams

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

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

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Currently responsible to build a design system with our engineers while working closely with our product team. Analyzing the current state of UI and UX also working closely with the growth team.

Created the design system from ground up for the customer facing UI while constanlty iterating and scaling it.I’m also responsible for identifying and understanding the core problems needed to be solve before producing solutions. Inline with this responsibility is to produce screens considering the users and their whole experience using it.In practice, valuing user experience, functionality, usability, and aesthetics though important should be the last one.

Responsible to create intuitive user interfaces from case studies to wireframes to front-end coding.

Founder and designer of the studio. I handle tasks from graphic design, product and interaction design, and front-end development.

Worked with the team on Chinaccelerator Program Batch IV. Design lead particularly user experience, user interface (Interaction design) and front-end development. Our team won the Regional Seedstars World in Shanghai, China.

Nawawala.org is a Startup Weekend Manila(4th Ed) product. Our team won the 3rd place and the Blackberry Award. Responsible in planning the UX and UI design for the web and mobile app. I also handled the visual identity of the organization.

Responsible in producing and doing the front-end development with a smooth user experience without sacrificing the aesthetics producing classy, yet minimal design.

Responsible on Web Design Aesthetics, Usability and User Experience. As a Senior, I also direct and collaborate with most of my colleagues where to head with their design.

Responsible in creating designs for tshirt, posters, flyers and other promotion materials.

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