United States

UX Design

XR Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Yeovil College

Kharis O'Connell

Principal, Design

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

UserTesting

Asana

Figma

InVision

Jira

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

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

Managing a remote team

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

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

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

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

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

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

• Advocated for user-centric design principles, and user needs. Built strong relationships with key stakeholders to gain support for design initiatives, and Affective AI development processes
• Spearheaded the design roadmaps for a team of prototypers and researchers, AI engineers, and the development team to deliver exceptional end-to-end experiences, increasing dev speed by 50%.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Apple to define and develop the application for GTM - specifically for Apple Vision Pro. Guided as Mentor for teammates
• Accountability for the Design Research, Human Factors and Usability testing, in discovering valid business objectives through A/B testing design strategies

• Managed the conceptual design process for the team iterating on 0-1 emerging technologies products for customers, that resulted in company growth and high customer satisfaction.
• Developed new products in alignment with internal R&D groups to create prototypes for leadership assessment. Customer obsession resulted in increased retention 62% within 1 quarter for Amazon Halo health service
• Championed user-centric design, testing X potential solutions and translating insights into actionable products. Advocated for user needs, shaping impactful IoT concepts.

• Led the UX design of advanced AR Operating system. Defined new novel input and product experience across various form factors.
• Championed the implementation of gesture interactions, increased user engagement 90% in 3 months, and standardized spatial computing design principles
• Advised the R&D for the Built Environment group on integration of enterprise software services into the build process, identifying pain points and facilitating a clear customer journey

• Leading the UX and Product teams, I created the product-market-fit, the interaction design language (with patents granted) and directed on the go-to-market strategy.
• Won Augmented World Expo (AWE) ‘Best of Show’ award, and Meta increased sales 80% becoming a design pioneer in the AR field, forging partnerships with Dell, Nike, and Tesla.

• Supervised the new productivity-focused team, that explored the business opportunities emerging in AR / VR, and the application design, creating the team processes, experimentation and tooling needed to succeed.
• Developed a unique VR application that let AEC professionals create buildings and structures in real-time, collaboratively, across multiple VR and AR platforms. Product was acquired by Stantec (AEC firm) in 2018

• Co-created an early-stage startup that focused on product design and innovation with clients such as MIO fitness watches, Finning Digital and BC Hydro.
• Designed a wearable safety device (Proxxi) that was spun out into a successful Saas startup. Proxxi has customers like PG&E and Google and is growing 32% YoY.
• Designed the first website and app for Wealthbar (Canadian wealth management company, acquired by CI Investing)

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