Canada

Product Design

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Technical Product Management

Front-end

Interaction Design

Growth Design

Certificate

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Nick Hubley

Senior Product Designer Design System

Typography

Prototyping

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Accessibility

Brand strategy

Community management

Design systems

User research

Product roadmap

UserTesting

Webflow

WordPress

Adobe XD

ChatGPT

Figma

Framer

HTML

JavaScript

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Miro

Communication

Conflict resolution

Analytical skills

Brand positioning

Branding

Negotiation

Usability Testing

Tone consistency

Relationship management

Product strategy

Qualitative research

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 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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management 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

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

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

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

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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 set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

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

Leading the transformation of Scotiabank's digital experience by developing the Compass Design System, revamping the homepage, implementing a comprehensive motion system, and establishing a new DEI standard for UXR.

  • Developed the Compass Design system, boosting design consistency and efficiency.

  • Improved homepage navigation, user engagement, and aesthetics.

  • Created Scotiabank's first-ever motion system for seamless user interactions.

  • Conducted DEI research to promote inclusive design practices.

  • Actively participated in the ERG for Disability, advocating for accessibility.

  • Lead the integration of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) templates.

  • Created an end-to-end design process guiding projects from concept to implementation.

  • Mentored team members, fostering creativity and continuous improvement.

  • Led workshops using Double Diamond principles to improve project efficiency.

  • Collaborated with a Design Director to champion inclusive practices and bias-free environments.

  • Streamlined workflow processes with a Design Team Repository and workshop templates.

  • Developed a new critique process for efficient feedback and continuous improvement.

  • Improved design-to-development handoff by converting Figma tokens to CSS for AEM assets.

  • Created Scotiabank’s first Colour System to match with Scoitabank's new visual ID (VisID).

  • Initiated the development of a new AEM design system with internal stakeholders.

  • Presented "Unlearning: Mastering the Skill of Unlearning for Innovation" at Future Fest 2024.

  • Presented to the Global Sales Organization (300+ attendees) advocating for neurodiversity and cancer awareness. 

  • Fostered continuous learning within the design community through Figma training sessions.

  • Developed workflows and roadmaps for the Compass Design System to improve transparency and efficiency.

Ceridian's Tiger Team was created to disrupt organizational norms by empowering cross-functional specialists to implement Everest Design System into our current product set. 

  • Demonstrates leadership through effectively communicating and designing all the processes with the Design/Developer handoff

  • Encourages open communication with a global team of developers to achieve Tiger Team's goals and objectives 

  • Created KPI's through Planning, forecasting, setting objectives and determining courses of action for the team. This process created an efficient, collaborative and transparent environment that placed the team 7 months ahead of schedule 

  • Revamped Ceridian's Help Portal website within 8 weeks, further demonstrating an ability to work independently, think "outside the box" and design with conventional programming media.

  • Hard coding the CMS to reflect Everest Design System patterns

  • Creation of current and future components from the Everest Design system

  • Collaboration with key stakeholders to address current and potential problems within the current CMS

  • Creation of Mock-ups, wireframes and user flows for stakeholders

  • Implementation of sectional visual editor templates for the future expansion of the site

  • Maximizes the opportunities within every situation to seek new ideas and approaches in the creation of a new login UI for Ceridian Dayforce product

  • Demonstrates imaginative insights to the 2023 Insight Conference through collaborative creation of the keynote presentation

  • Uses proven methods and techniques to revamp Ceridian's Dayfore product by incorporating Everest Design System patterns/UI
         • Navigation
         • Icons
         • Components 
         • UX/UI 
         • Etc.

Demonstrated technical competence, dependability and efficiency that was instrumental in the creation of Ceridian’s premier Everest Design System.

  • Scaled adoption models, design system governance, intake, and championed programs for Everest Design System across product teams to create bridges with stakeholders

  • Spearheaded the creation of the first ever implemented components and colour tokens within the first two weeks of employment following the Double Diamond process/Atomic Design System Methodology

  • Explored and created new paths, procedures and approaches to implement Design System tokens

  • Pioneered the creation of a series of documentation templates within the Everest Design System 

  • Developed the ongoing Audit process for the Everest Design System/Design Organization

  • Effectively blended a series of templates that assisted the Accessibility team in translating external information into Figma

  • Elevated Ceridian's design practices, workflows and culture for an org of ~70 multidisciplinary UXers (product designers, UX researchers, design ops specialists, accessibility design leads, and product designers) through a series of team-building events

  • Conducted a series of brainstorming sessions with the Accessibility team to address the needs of disabled persons and their caregivers 

  • Shared my knowledge of Figma plugins to enhance our accessibility testing and meeting A11Y and WCAG guidelines

  • Designers and their implementation of Everest Design System-related component building
Initiated the Intake Process flow to facilitate the external design component workflow. 

  • Designed, coded and implemented Ceridian's first Figma plugin to aid with icon handoff to the Development team

  • Operationalized Everest’s first Intake Process for over 1500+ stakeholders across Product and Technology

  • Assisted in developing programs to improve employee retention rates, satisfaction and collaboration

• Contributed to UX Collective by covering topics on user research, culture, AI, and ML.

• Edited and managed content to ensure high quality and relevance for readers.

• Led the growth of WIP Industries INC. from 100 to 7 million+ users through front-end development, UX research, SEO, persona analysis, and social media marketing.

• Designed innovative products that created hybrid platforms to enhance community experience.

• Utilized skills in search engine optimization and social media marketing to reach a global audience.

• Developed cross-channel strategy and planning for Nubley Digital, focusing on user experience and community engagement.

• Implemented the Double Diamond process to create effective user personas and scenarios, driving end user needs and wants.

• Specialized in new business acquisition and development with a user-first mentality, resulting in increased user engagement and satisfaction.

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