Austria

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Growth Design

UX Testing

AI Design

TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Olesia Borysova

Product Design Lead 

Behance

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

Design systems

Market research

User research

Product roadmap

Trello

Typeform

UserTesting

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Amplitude

Asana

Balsamiq

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

GitHub

Hotjar

HTML

Jira

Maze

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Midjourney

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

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

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 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

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

- Managed a 5-member product & 3D design team (full-time and part-time), building design processes in Scrum, Kanban, leading design reviews and brainstorming sessions.
- Established design workflows, led design reviews, facilitated brainstorming sessions, implemented best practices for design system management, iterative design, and version control.
- Conducted stakeholder interviews, UX Research, Usability Testing, User Interviews for 3 products, analysed, structured and presented findings.
- Built design systems from scratch and scaled cross-product design system with Angular-integrated components for 4 products, reducing implementation time by 27% through reusable, production-ready components.
- Researched, implemented & scaled a cost-efficient design system integrated with Angular components.
- Coordinated design delivery to ensure consistency, quality, and readiness for development.

Olesia Borysova🇦🇹

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