United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Customer Experience (CX)

UX Research

Master's Degree

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

John Ruiz

Sr. Product Designer

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Information architecture

User research

Tableau

Zeplin

Adobe XD

Airtable

Asana

Axure

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

Hotjar

Lucidchart

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

BambooHR

Workday

Namely

Sketch

Mural

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

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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

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

Being a woman in tech

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

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

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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Skills: Independent Contributor · Design Systems · User-centered Design · User Experience (UX)

Hypergiant Space Age Solutions Division:

The guiding light for Fortune 500 companies. Providing  understanding, creation and implementation at the intersection of experience and machine intelligence. Analyzing data. Teaching machines to teach themselves in order to create powerful technology solutions and smarter, more efficient human workforces.

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•Lead the creative department with ideation, storyboards, UX/UI for overall website
•Clipped media coverage, and edited videos directly into the platform
•Updated events, social strategy and POS for new and active members

•Collaborate with cross-functional team to create user stories and use cases to establish feature definitions for product development
•Collaborate with development team to assess feasibility, and provide feedback and guidance on current builds
•Research new, innovative technology to advance client product portfolios
•Develop information architecture, task flow diagrams, responsive wires and UI, prototypes, handing off design artifacts using Zeplin
•Advocate usability improvements and user-centric design thinking

• Collaborate with the DoStuff national and local teams to concept, create and execute custom programs that integrate brands into content, events, editorial, social and PR.
• Work closely with the DoStuff Program Delivery team to ensure coordination with the efforts of DoStuff cities you’re selling into, and other DoStuff sellers.

• Ensure timely and accurate creation of customer contracts
• Create, update and maintain customer base
• Reconcile active client contracts
• Collaborate with project management team and third party vendors

• Supervised and managed department interns
• Responsible for researching details for special events
• Updated specific social media outlets and physically set up events around Austin

•Transcribed and organized panel content for On Story: Screenwriters and their Craft
•Maintained filmmaker contact information database
•Researched and analyzed Google Analytics for the Festival and On Story websites
•Interfaced with city officials and business owners to ensure efficient operations during the Festival, including coordinating permit applications

•Developed and implemented digital marketing
•Collaborated with music artist and managers in regards to promotion details related to social media outlets and video 
•Filmed, edited, and promoted live concerts

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