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UX Design

Service Design

Content Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

UX writing

Interaction Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Service Design Research

Content Strategy

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Nick Finck

Founder & Principal Consultant

Usability Testing

Typography

Twitter writing

Referrals

Quantitative research

Public Speaking

Product analytics

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Analytical skills

2D Animation

3D Animation

Accessibility

Advanced data analytics

AI/ML

Blog writing

Brand positioning

Brand strategy

Business intelligence

Chatbot

Cloud computing

Community management

Content creation

Content strategy

Design systems

Event organisation

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

Budget management

Video editing

Whitepaper/ebook Writing

CAD design

User research

BambooHR

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Workday

Adobe After Effects

Sketch

Airtable

Mural

Asana

Autocad

Axure

Balsamiq

Canva

ChatGPT

Carrd

Confluence

Figma

Framer

GitHub

Glassdoor

Google Analytics

HTML

InVision

JavaScript

Jira

Lookback

Lucidchart

Mailchimp

Miro

Mixpanel

Monday

Morae

Notion

Optimal Workshop

SurveyMonkey

Tableau

Trello

Typeform

UserTesting

UserZoom

Vimeo

Webflow

WordPress

Youtube

Zapier

Zeplin

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

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

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

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

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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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 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 conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

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