United States

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

UX Testing

UX Research

UX Engineering

Patrick Schlafer

Product Designer

Resume

Usability Testing

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Advanced data analytics

Design systems

Information architecture

User research

React Native

Trello

UserTesting

WordPress

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Asana

ChatGPT

Figma

HTML

InVision

JavaScript

Maze

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Sketch

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

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

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

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

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

Working with engineers

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

• Lead all design phases of new omni-channel mobile app from kickoff to launch
• Conduct user interviews and prototype testing with customers, applying insights to in-progress work
• Establish multiple design systems for Web, Nook, and flagship B&N app
• Advocate and transform design process throughout digital team to improve workflow efficiency and visual consistency

• Research multiple user types to design recruitment and networking site for business alumni
• Extend static brand styles into a rich interactive design system for global search and filtering of large databases

• Orchestrate design process from ideation of features to wireframes, prototyping, and visualization
• Lead a team of multiple designers, both in-house and contractors
• Create comprehensive style guides and lean UX principles to support aggressive MVP schedule
• Conduct user research and usability testing with high school students to gather insights on site
goals and improvements
• Collaborate with developers, product managment, subject-matter experts, and others to integrate user feedback and prepare sprints
• Innovate unique interfaces to assist in the comprehension and engagement of content

NYC Big Apps 2014 Finalist
DreamIt Ventures Philadelphia 2014

Evolved the product and purpose of a struggling startup by developing a streamlined interface, enabling the collection of emotional states in various categories in as little as ten seconds. This information is then collected and presented to professors, deans, or team managers.

Major responsibilities include:
• Developing features to be as easily-accessible to the base user as possible
• Full front-end and interface development with jquery, haml, and angularjs
• Gathering and implementing user feedback from students, professors, and managers
• Extending visual design & branding

Assistant for Post-Planetary Design, a graduate-level research seminar exploring all aspects of design at a post-planetary scale: "Throughout the semester we will screen scifi films, read bright and dark futurologies, scan, debate, and re-scan critical histories and theories, and ultimately produce a set of 'black papers', short videos and/or interactive projects that speculate on the next 50 to 1000 years of cross-disciplinary design."

PETlab is a joint project of Games for Change and Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. It is a place for testing prototyping methods and the process of collaborative design with organizations interested in using games as a form of public interest engagement.

• Create fully custom sites using HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and leveraging Wordpress content management
• Tailored admin CMS for adding and editing pages and image slideshows.

• Design posters and print campaigns for local events
• Prep materials for media and photographers

• Design & develop user-friendly websites for both visitors and administrators.
• Organize complex systems of information into frustration-free experiences.
• Solve business needs with advanced web technologies and visual design.

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