United States

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Service Design

Interaction Design

UX Testing

Molly Garber

Director, Product Design

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Design systems

Information architecture

Figma

Conflict resolution

Critical-thinking

Usability Testing

Typography

Product roadmap

Product strategy

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

Managing people

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

Building an effective team

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

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

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

Working cross-functionally

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

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Creating experience for luxury hosts that list properties on Airbnb Luxe and Luxury Retreats. I consider our complex user base to create and optimize features for hosts who have specific controls.

Working to create a new financial tech product to help people start investing. Helped shape the product from the pitch to build with our client. Participating in sprint planning and client workshops.

Worked with small teams on pitching some awesome clients, including winning a new financial digital product. Worked on the research and user validation for the new project and then started working on the product design.

Interaction design, UI design, and concepting. Often working on small teams to create amazing outcomes. I have worked on accounts from a small 3 people start-up to a multinational energy corporation.

While at Sequence, I was asked to be a part of the team in making wireframes and design concepts for multiple clients. I was able to meet face to face with clients and present my work. Sequence is a smaller company full of extremely intelligent people. I grew so much as a designer, presenter and general thinker during this internship.

Worked with a small team of designers and developers to make beautiful experiences for a number of clients. I worked on everything from concepting motion pieces and story boarding, to designing mobile experiences, to flash banner campaigns, to working in Cinema 4d. While working closely with the top designers and the development team, I learned a lot about the process of designing, and the process to make those designs real experiences.

Designed websites and worked on interactive e-learning flash projects. Learned to work closely with clients and fellow employees. Worked on various projects, one being an interactive RV named MARV.

Worked with a large team of designers on many different projects. I helped to design Flash and HTML websites. I learned the challenge of decorative typefaces in layouts with a western themed website. I also was a part of the e-learning team, in which we made educational courses in Flash. Since Real Art is also more of an experimental design firm, I also was a part of the team that made an interactive experience that was projected on the back window of a 1970s RV, named MARV, who interviews students at colleges all around the United States.

I am here to talk and give advice to help people navigate being a design leader. I can help with advice on how to give good feedback, coach direct reports, or focus on navigating stakeholders and managing up.

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