United States

Product Design

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Branding and Identity Design

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)

Jared Long

Senior Product Designer

Prototyping

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Design systems

Webflow

Figma

Framer

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Miro

Notion

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 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

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

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

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 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

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Public Speaking

Analytical skills

3D Animation

2D Animation

Human computer interaction

Illustration

Typography

Product strategy

Explored solutions to make artificial intelligence at Meta more understandable for customers, regulators, and machine learning engineers.

Led the design effort of Warby Parker's award winning Virtual Vision Test, an iOS app that enables customers to renew contacts or glasses prescriptions from home. 

Contributed to strategic product decisions based on research, data and business objectives. 

Collaborated with the user research and data team to gather insights and identify opportunity areas for future iterations. 

Crafted high fidelity prototypes, animations and visuals that added surprise, delight and personality to Warby Parker's native apps.

Hosted workshops and "Lunch and Learns" to advocate for design thinking and collaboration tools within the organization.

Worked as the primary designer for the Zola iOS and Android apps planning, creating and testing new app features.

Wireframed, prototyped and animated the Zola Stories onboarding experience which educates customers about Zola’s offerings.

Collaborated with a small action team to audit, design and document Zola UI, the Zola design system and Figma component library. 

Designed improvements to the shopping and registry creation process for the Zola mobile apps improving customer experience and increasing registry adds.

Led a complete redesign of the Meural iOS app which raised the app store rating from 3.3 to 4.7 stars.

Wireframed, prototyped and designed the Meural ecommerce site which helped double sales from the previous holiday season.

Formalized the Meural design system which enabled designers to work more efficiently and with greater consistency.

Collaborated with our user research team to test the product setup experience. After applying the findings of this research we were able to raise successful setup attempts by 50%.

Designed digital advertising products that brought in $30,000+ in revenue per day for publications like The Chicago Tribune and ESPN. 

Created analytics and statistics dashboards that gave management a real time view of how our products were performing on key metrics.

Launched a landing page and ticket sales portal for the Wichita Symphony that helped sell out shows with over 2,000 seats. 

Led the design, illustration and printing of a quarterly magazine for Junior League of Wichita that reached thousands of readers.

Sketched, designed and prototyped a web app for Postalocity, a startup that enables users to send mail with the USPS from their computer.

Created social media content, Google ads and in-store print materials for a restaurant chain that grew to 300+ locations.

Designed websites for local businesses like Air House Music Academy that enabled them to reach new customers.

Worked as a production designer. I prepped images for the ecommerce website and learned about how an in-house design department operates.

Operated digital presses and worked as a production designer. I trained and managed new employees and was responsible for managing deadlines and solving problems.

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