United States

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Olivia Sisinni

Senior Product Designer

Prototyping

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Branding

Design systems

UserTesting

Webflow

WordPress

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Figma

Hotjar

HTML

Jira

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Asana

Stakeholder management

Communication

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

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

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

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

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

• Collaborate with team and stakeholders to create better user experiences for the library’s myriad patrons across the website and digital presence
• Sole designer on team spearheading the redesign of the library's main navigational pages—a project aimed at modernizing the feel of the site as well making a clearer, easier-to-navigate experience for the NYPL's 16 million patrons.
• Contribute to the development of NYPL’s larger user experience through design and evolution of organization’s visual and interactive patterns; working closely with the library’s design system and team.

• Teach principles of UX/UI design in module form to ~20 students per cohort
• Grade assignments, coach students to deliver UX work that is well researched and up to industry standards

• Work with team to produce a proprietary CMS for video streaming
content with cross-platform compatibility in mind
• Create an atomic design system and visual language for the product
• Translate lo-fi mockups into hi-fi templates, leveraging Figma’s
components feature to create a library to speed team’s iterative process
• Audit current UI library for gaps in component offerings; prototype and
present new proposed components to fit specific CMS project needs
• Work with global design system team to train department on migrating
files from Sketch to Figma

• Design the visual layout for Customer Service Desk product with the goal of enhancing user experience and expanding current functionality
• Closely collaborate with UX team, BAs, and project leadership to identify and define business requirements and craft tailored solutions to meet these goals
• Conduct user interviews and testing and translate research findings into interfaces that meet business requirements 
• Create and present Figma-made prototypes while owning the persona definition, process design, functional design, prototyping process and testing of the feature

• Work in conjunction with marketing team to create beautiful, responsive landing pages that drive sales leads. 
• Design monthly issues of a digital magazine product; assembling content provided by
other teams into engaging multimedia articles that include interactive quizzes, dynamically-generated printables, and competition brackets.
• Maintain sites in WordPress, applying best practices in web compliance and SEO.
• Assisted in the design and rollout of new customer product interface that integrated better mobile experience and more streamlined product control to end users. 
• Design graphic collateral for e-mail campaigns to promote company products and thought leadership.

• Design all digital and print advertising materials for the store and created style guide for the brand
• Built and maintained Squarespace-based store website 
• Launched and maintained Reverb.com store 
• Manage all social media, utilizing IFTTT to streamline workflow 
• Launched store’s first targeted email advertising campaign; designed subsequent campaigns.
• Created and managed Google Adwords campaigns
• Developed SEO strategies, perform competitor SEO analysis
• Managed sheet music inventory and make appropriate orders

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