Spain

UX Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Generalist Product Management

Growth Product Management

Interaction Design

Growth Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Graphic Designer

Manuel Rocco

Lead Product Designer Mobile

Usability Testing

Monetisation

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Team player

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Design systems

User research

Product roadmap

Figma

Framer

Maze

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Empathy

Time management

Project management

Analytical skills

Conversational AI

Data visualisation

Information architecture

Video editing

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

General mentorship

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

Keeping team members motivated

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

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

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

Building balanced teams

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

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

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

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

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

- Elevated the UX maturity level from 1 to 4, results in: leadership incorporated UX into the decision making process, user research is streamlined, better cross-functional collaboration and alignment between business goals and client needs.

- Led a team of analysts in enhancing their user-centric approach, enabling them to independently plan and execute experiments which increased user satisfaction and product value.

- Conducted over 25 qualitative user interviews and more than 15 qualitative usability tests with clients to develop UX personas and implemented 3 significant product improvements.

- Implemented and adopted a new UX strategy and UX design process, to ensure an outcome oriented approach and a consistent design performance.

- Initiated and facilitated numerous workshops, including sessions on: vision and mission, company values, over 5 feedback sessions, 2 product retrospectives, 2 minified design sprints, and few complex user journey workshops.

- Led and mentored a team of UX designers to streamline productivity, develop their skills, facilitate the exchange of knowledge, and embrace innovation.

- Led the design direction of the mobile banking app to ensure a modern and cohesive visual language.

- Implemented and adopted a UX Strategy and an improved version of the UX design process to better align with the product strategy and goals, achieve a consistent design performance, and reduce productivity costs and effort of UX designers.

- Designed and shipped an improved version of the Credit Suisse mobile pension experience to increase adoption and retention.

- Transitioned from Sketch and Abstract to Figma resulted in a 50% increase in productivity.

- Implemented and adopted a new UX design process to ensure consistent performance among two banking products for retails and for business.

- Defined the UX vision for two company products to improve retention and acquisition.

- Designed a new Design System that resulted in a 25% boost in speed for designers and developers.

- Conducted research and qualitative interviews with more than 50 people to gather feedback and insights, triggering more than 7 impactful product improvements.

- Triggered and facilitated workshops, including: over 5 feedback sessions, 3 product retrospectives, 5 minified design sprints, and over 10 user journeys.

Manuel Rocco🇪🇸