United Kingdom

University of Edinburgh

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Leon Brown

Design Lead

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

Building an effective team

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

Fostering a good team culture

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

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

Managing a remote team

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

Managing people

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

Working remotely

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

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

Presenting your work with impact

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Leon Brown🇬🇧