United Kingdom

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

UX Research

Design Systems

UCLA Extension

Mike Young

Head of Product Design

Medium Profile

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Leadership

React

React Native

Figma

Mixpanel

Cursor

Stakeholder management

Team player

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Product strategy

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

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

Getting the most out of my internship

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

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

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 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

• Implemented company-wide design strategy at Rapyd Cloud, driving expansion into new market verticals and contributing to strong first-year growth.
• Guided engineers to fully adopt the company’s Figma design system, improving UI consistency and onboarding processes.
• Collaborated with engineering and executive leadership to integrate design into strategic planning, leading to a bi-weekly release cycle.

• Designed core product experiences to support platform architecture for timely launch.
• Simplified complex infrastructure into a user-friendly hosting dashboard, enhancing onboarding and reducing UI complexity.
• Developed a modular Figma design system with theme tokens, dark/light modes, custom icons, and reusable components to ensure visual consistency and speed up development.

• Led product design and strategic alignment initiatives to enhance design consistency and team productivity at BuddyBoss.
• Crafted roadmaps that prioritize user needs and business objectives, resulting in faster release cycles and heightened customer interaction.
• Established a unified Figma design system for web and mobile applications to maintain visual coherence throughout the product range.

As Product Manager:

• Managed product lifecycle from idea to launch, overseeing feature delivery and platform enhancements.
• Decreased bug backlog from over 1,500 to less than 100, enhancing product reliability and customer contentment.
• Increased release frequency from monthly to bi-weekly, enhancing team collaboration and backlog organization.

• Led product design and strategy for over 100 digital products and online brands spanning diverse industries.
• Assisted startups and small businesses with pitch decks, defining MVPs, launch strategies, and building teams.
• Contributed to clients securing over £1M in funding by developing pitch materials and shaping product vision.

Mike Young🇬🇧

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