Canada

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Marie-Claire Hill

Senior Product Designer

Typography

Prototyping

Communication

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Leadership

Design systems

Information architecture

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

Stakeholder management

Collaboration

Team player

Problem-solving

Project management

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

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

Managing a remote team

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

With 15+ years in product design, I lead platform design at Safety, helping shape product-led growth in a complex technical space.

•  I lead research and strategy-led projects from ideation to implementation increasing user adoption of campaign behavior change goals.  
•  Worked closely with our GCD and Tech Lead to grow our digital team of UX/UI designers and developers.
•  Mentored and managed a design team, provided feedback, and worked on finding ways to help them improve their work and grow.
•  Presented to President, ECD, GCD and clients to get buy-in on digital strategies for behavior change and design and development implementation results.
•  Led, implemented and maintained process improvements across the department and cross-functional collaborations with our department.

• Defined a vision for how products should look, feel, act and interact to exceed the needs of the end user and align with client business challenges and goals for brands such as TikTok and TELUS delivering on-point but unexpected branded digital products and visual identities.
• Led design with product managers in an agile workflow to gather feedback and iterate for increased usability, satisfaction, accessibility and brand cohesion and initiated and maintained user adoption through product ecosystems delivering on time and on budget.
• Mentored, provided feedback, and guided a designer to improve their work.
• Identified, implemented and maintained process improvements.

• Collaborated with Creative and Art Directors to create beautiful, functional and engaging branded digital products across multiple platforms and devices for clients such as Athletics Canada, Vancouver Port Authority and Downtown Van.
• Developed and implemented UI design strategies, ensuring consistency across multiple platforms and devices, resulting in cohesive and seamless user experiences across products.
• Collaborated with the development team to ensure accurate implementation
of UI designs, providing detailed design specifications and assets for an efficient development process.
• Created sitemaps and wireframes based on user research and IA for extensive websites across all breakpoints, guiding UI design decisions and interactions.
• Created interactive prototypes and wireframes to demonstrate UI functionality
and gather user feedback, leading to informed design decisions and enhanced
user experiences.

Branding & identity and design work for an impact-led B-Corp PR firm.

• Created visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces for web and mobile applications, focusing on enhancing user engagement and conversion rates.
• Worked extensively with TELUS using the design system and existing design patterns to create landing pages, product detail pages, EDMs, apps and digital products.
• Created the brand identity and large-scale sports record entry web app for Personal Sport Record.

Digital and brand identity projects for clients in the non-profit sector at a BCorp design studio.

Digital and brand identity projects for clients in the hospitality, health and corporate sectors.

Wayfinding and signage and interpretive displays for clients such as Walmart and Harley Davidson.

Digital and brand identity for clients in the public and private sectors.

Identity, branding and digital projects for clients in the real estate industry and private sectors.

• In my independent practice, I specialize in identity and digital product design.
• Working across timezones, I create engaging identities and digital brand experiences for agencies and clients globally.

Marie-Claire Hill🇨🇦

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