United States

Graphic Design

UX Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Generalist Product Management

Branding

UX Testing

UX Research

Content Strategy

Laura Melbourne (she/her)

Experience Strategist

Product analytics

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Brand strategy

Data mining

Market research

User research

Qualtrics

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Airflow

Balsamiq

Canva

ChatGPT

Crazy Egg

Hotjar

HTML

Jira

Adobe Creative Suite

Google Analytics

UserZoom

Sketch

Apache Spark

UserTesting

Mural

Presentation skills

Project management

Illustration

Information architecture

Usability Testing

Typography

Tone consistency

Relationship management

Quantitative research

Qualitative research

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

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

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 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

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

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

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

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

Creating a product vision

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

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