Netherlands

Design Operations

UX Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

UX Research

Michiel Sollet

UX Design Leader & DesignOps Strategist

Quantitative research

Product analytics

Product strategy

Prototyping

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Design systems

Information architecture

Product roadmap

Affinity

Amplitude

Figma

Jira

Miro

Mixpanel

Notion

Collaboration

Time management

Team player

Conflict resolution

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

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

General mentorship

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

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

Managing a remote team

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

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

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

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

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

Lead UX Designer in a product leadership triad (with Product Lead + Engineering Manager), owning UX strategy for a B2B content authoring platform used by editorial teams across Europe. Introduced the organisation's first analytics instrumentation (Mixpanel), embedded hypothesis-driven discovery, and coached designers from junior to senior level. Team eNPS +50 points in 12 months.

UX Manager with full HR and operational responsibility for the design function. Scaled the team from 6 to 17 designers, built career progression frameworks from scratch, and transformed UX from a delivery service into a strategic product discipline. Introduced dual-track agile, DesignOps foundations, and data-informed ways of working across the organisation.

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