Australia

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Content Design

Product Design

UX writing

Product Marketing

Interaction Design

Growth Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Kristina Volchek

Senior Product Designer, Design Mentor and Career Coach

Designer's Coffee Newsletter

Dribbble Portfolio

Usability Testing

Social media marketing

Referrals

Quantitative research

Monetisation

Newsletter writing

Public Speaking

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Accessibility

Affiliate marketing

AI/ML

Brand strategy

Chatbot

Design systems

Email marketing

Influencer marketing

Market research

Marketing strategy

User research

Trello

Webflow

Zapier

Adobe Photoshop

Airtable

Asana

ChatGPT

Figma

Framer

Hotjar

HubSpot

Jira

Miro

Notion

Google Analytics

Brand positioning

Branding

Content strategy

Email writing

Information architecture

Viral marketing

Video marketing

Typography

Partnership

Product roadmap

Product 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

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

Being a woman in tech

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management 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

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

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

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

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

The Product Design Career Accelerator is an 8-week program designed to assist product designers with their job search. Coaches at Liftyz provide personalized guidance and support throughout the entire job search process, they give invaluable insights into what employers are looking for and help students stand out from the competition.

• Reorganised the wallet Figma files & brought consistency to the main flows
• Updated Design system
• Designed Affiliate program, FloozTags, Social Sharing Features

• Mentored cohorts of 10-12 students on Dribbble's 8-week UI Design Course and 24-week Product Design Academy Course, providing guidance and expertise in all areas of Product & UI Design
• Taught essential design principles, Figma basics and design processes to equip students with the necessary skills for success
• Led weekly live mentor sessions to provide personalized feedback and support to each student throughout their learning journey

• Contributed to achieving over 66 million downloads within a year
• Collaborated closely with developers to implement social sharing, referral and affiliate features for growth design initiatives
• Conducted experiments to create and refine viral loops, driving user acquisition and engagement
• Led app localization for Arabic and conducted RTL workshops for the team and developers

I teach UX/UI & Product Design.
I’m a Senior Product Designer with a marketing background. I’m also a mentor in Dribbble’s design courses.

Kristina Volchek🇦🇺