United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Service Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

UX writing

Branding

Interaction Design

Project Management

UX Testing

UX Research

Service Design Research

City/Urban

Jayson McCauliff

Director of UX

Usability Testing

Typography

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Accessibility

Brand strategy

Design systems

Human computer interaction

User research

Product roadmap

Trello

WordPress

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

ChatGPT

Figma

HTML

Miro

Notion

Adobe After Effects

Confluence

Google Analytics

Conflict resolution

Problem-solving

AI/ML

Brand positioning

Conversational AI

Content strategy

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

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

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

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

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

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

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

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Coached designers on craft across product lines. Streamlined design operations, launched measurable OKRs, integrated design more closely into the Product Development process. Drove culture, critiques, facilitated workshops, and quarterly planning sessions for a remote team of 15 designers, ensuring consistency, quality and adherence to timelines.

Physicians Experience. 
iOS mobile app used by 2000+ Oncologists to treat patients with any type of cancer. 

Leveraged OCR, and NLP for Oncology use cases. 

Mentored and managed UX designers from concept to launch, resulting in a 948% increase in total users and a 1084% increase in daily active users. 

Led and conducted user research with Oncologists and Providers for new mobile app features.

IC'd federally compliant mobile medication ordering feature. Following iOS platform usability standards working with 6 engineers at once overcoming ambiguity with an ownership mindset.

Available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Watch.

AI/ML Research Team.
Validated user research, training LLM models with 4K clinical notes to streamline workflows buried by redundant administrative tasks, reducing physician burnout by cutting charting clicks 75%

ION Design System.
Art-Directed, managed, mentored a team of Visual Designers to produce a new Design System. Demonstrated how the new brand manifests within the product. Led the unification of marketing, branding and UX efforts resulting in 0 duplication of work.

Unified 4 engineering teams and 2 UX teams. Improved component tracking, streamlined development with existing tooling. Trackable components 100%, Design System onboarding requests -80%, 3rd party libraries consolidated.

Patient Engagement Health Portal & Admin Console. 
Aligned 7 UX Designers for agile collaboration with offshore teams, launching a zero to 1 consumer-focused responsive web for cancer care. Gained practices from competitors with new UX, consumer design system, patient and provider features.

Researched, art directed and socialized McKesson's first Product Design System, established Goal-Directed User Centered Design principles for the UX team, lead design and mobile EHR initiative from the ground up.

Documented Design System Rationale and Behavior.

Collaborated closely with Product and Engineering to position UX Design value: activities and outcomes during discovery within Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) to ensure the customers voice is included early and continuously.

Led service design and product strategy initiatives for Fortune 500 companies to startups. Expertise in brand strategy for defining digital products and service experiences helped clients connect with their audiences more effectively. 

Mentor and managed design interns, junior designers, and design teams, fostering an environment of continuous learning and growth.

Service Design Strategy:
Federal Home Loan Bank
Northern Arizona University
Mercedes/Daimler Research MBRNA
Clorox

Product Design and Development:
US BANK Wealth Management

Demonstrated versatility in roles as Design Researcher, Interaction Designer, and Visual Designer for diverse industries including healthcare, finance, insurance, manufacturing, automotive, real estate, telecom, and education.

Applied a deep understanding of user needs through thorough research methods such as ethnographic interviews, design workshops, product audits, competitive analysis, heuristic evaluation, concept validation, and user testing. 

Translated insights into actionable deliverables, including user personas, scenarios, journey maps, wireframes, workflows, and micro-interactions to shape impactful user experiences.

Developed cohesive, responsive, and accessible visual systems that aligned with brand identities, ensuring seamless integration with digital products: making design systems an extension of their brand identity. 

Custom Design Systems and Interaction Design 0>1 for:
GE Heath – EHR
Boston Scientific – Cardiology Medical Device
Varian Medical Systems – Oncology Medical Device
Practice Fusion – iPad/Tablet EHR
Carl Zeiss Meditec – Ophthalmology Medical Device
PatientsLikeMe – Social Treatment Platform
AMGEN – Treatment Decision Support
PWC – Accounting
Intel – Chip Development

Created and taught advanced private and public curriculum for: service design, UX process, visual design, product branding and user research methods.

Responsible for applying the principles of design to communicate the client's brand, simplify workflow, clarify the meaning of data to guide behavior and relationships between human, service and interface. A designer who conducts user research; evangelizing how the persona wants to feel about their work, the product and brand. I create visual language strategies for products and the service experience that guide every design, realized through a honed craft of precision pixel illustration and final specification. I create design systems, component libraries for new products and to breath life into repaired ones. Mentored and managed design interns and junior designers.

Designed products servicing the high-end digital printing industry.
Visually designed and branded over 20 products.
Designed the EFI logo (Yes, that one to the left).
Created user profiles, scenarios, task flow diagrams and wireframes.
Designed and developed UI design standards for Windows, Mac OS and mobile platforms.
Intimate with Windows and Mac OS Human Interface Guidelines.
Remote collaboration with offsite engineering teams.
Mentored and managed design interns and junior designers.

Print Driver and color calibration utility software design for Windows OS, Mac OS and Linux OS

Designed unique web based applications for Papermedia's diverse client base.
Worked with Art Directors, Information Architects, Project Managers, and Developers to design and produce award-winning sites from Nobel-prize winning: Doctors without Borders, financial: ON24 to non-profit: Youth Speaks.

Designed informational print collateral for city wide public work projects for the City’s Economic Development Division: Office of Small Business.

Began as a volunteer for the City of Eureka's Main Street Program –  a community-driven, comprehensive strategy to used to revitalize downtown and neighborhood business districts. A program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Awarded "California's Volunteer of Year" for service in preservation of Eureka's Historic Old Town and rejuvenation of Eureka's Downtown core.

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