Ecuador

UX Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Product Design

Data Product Management

UX Research

Javier Alcivar

Lead Experience Designer L3

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Team player

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Axure

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Google Data Studio

Airtable

Google Analytics

Lucidchart

PowerBI

SEMrush

SurveyMonkey

Tableau

Mural

Time management

Organisation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Critical-thinking

Project management

Public Speaking

Brand strategy

Data visualisation

Design systems

Email marketing

LinkedIn writing

Product strategy

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

General mentorship

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

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

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

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

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 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

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Offer Expertise in product design for digital products on contract work. 
Mentoring and course production for Data visualization.
Aid companies in UX strategy and advanced UX research.

• Use the latest Lean and Agile thinking, create pragmatic solutions to solve mission-critical problems for global clients, and challenge yourself every day.

• Work as part of multi-disciplinary teams that balance the thinking required to understand complex problems with the discipline needed to get high-quality working software

• Play an active role in the delivery and design of technology projects

• Facilitate workshops, developing unique design strategies for products and making strategic decisions at the portfolio level

• Extend your expertise to teammates by supporting less-experienced designers when possible

• Advocate experience design expertise to the broader community outside of Thoughtworks

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