United States

Associate of Arts (AA)

Jodie Lyons

Senior Product Designer

Website

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

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

Being a woman in tech

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 create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

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

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

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

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

- Identified team needs and communication styles to coordinate cross-discipline collaboration as Design Lead
- Held teams accountable and navigated communications with a growth oriented mindset
- Set operational goals and aligned strategy while advocating for client, business and user needs
- Designed and operationalized feedback mechanisms and self-directed career growth playbooks for design team
- Lead teams in applying best practice human centered design thinking methods and standards

- Conceptualized an end to end design program for behavior changing digital health experience 
- Facilitated project kickoff workshops, user research protocols, product strategy, roadmapping, and process maps
- Developed trusting relationships while communicating project goals to clients and stakeholders

- Developed and implemented a design system overhaul for Backcountry.com
- Facilitated design sprints and prioritization for the Competitivecyclist.com redesign
- Mentored UX team in design thinking, research methodologies, and design systems
- Measured project success against company objectives utilizing A/B testing, NPS scores, and task based usability testing

- Evaluated the holistic product experience including strategy, design objectives, and interaction
- Conducted non-design project needs including research, interviews, and client meetings

- Spearheaded UI / UX design with wireframe production, visual comps, and style guides
- Advised clients as a subject matter expert including Microsoft, Google and Amazon

Conceptualized and designed artwork for all mediums including but not limited to: website, branding, brochures, promotional banners, television, and mobile, from concept to completion. 

Collaborated closely with development team to ensure timely and successful design implementation.

Liaised directly with clients to manage creative projects, briefings, follow up meetings and expectations.

Utilized existing brand elements and guidelines for Australian Government and other clients while also creating unique branding for new businesses.

Produced content and marketing plans for all web and print media for implementation.

Created wireframes, site maps, and visual design for all web and print media.

Developed company brand standards to promote consistent brand across family of products.

Designed, executed, and measured targeted marketing campaigns for Hands-On Mobile games. 

Provided customer support and moderated all social media outlets for brand.

Created artwork for in game ads, Facebook, online ads, Email Newsletters.

Provided analytics for all campaigns and managed all social media outlets to measure effectiveness of targeted campaigns.

Experienced with designing for a wide range of platforms including but not limited to enterprise applications, social media, mobile interfaces and other devices. 

Conceptualized information architecture, wireframes, and site maps for projects.

Collaborated efficiently with teams and worked individually to meet demanding schedule and goals.

Developed and executed targeted marketing campaigns for wide range of clients and brands.

Designed HTML emails, website banners, fan pages, and social networking pages.

Compiled, analyzed, and reported on website traffic statistics using Google Analytics software.

Established, evaluated, and maintained efficient creative workflow processes/standards for all design & production requests, workflow practices, and team resources.

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