United Kingdom

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Content Creation

Paul Wilshaw

CPO/CXO

Prototyping

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Leadership

Accessibility

Design systems

Webflow

Affinity

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Sketch

Stakeholder management

Communication

Team player

Public Speaking

Human computer interaction

Illustration

Information architecture

Usability Testing

Product roadmap

Product strategy

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 determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

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

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

Breaking into tech

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

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 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

I built the design and product strategy for advanced AI to identify humans just from how they hold and touch their devices.

Worked on a little bit of everything from creating pitch decks (leading to £ 3.6 m+ investment), gathering requirements, user feedback, and even leading the engineering team to create, at first, an app and then deep system integration.

Created a design system that worked across the company.

Built up the social media channels and created communities by hosting events.

Founded a company to deal with the lack of collaboration and cross-pollination in technology, product and design.

Led the rebrand and new technology for a self-serving website and customer portals.

Led the product strategy and roadmap to educate and inform the rest of the business to become a product-led organisation.

Created a design system.

Led the research strategy for new products and discovery.

Worked with sales, marketing, product and the executive suite for cross-company collaboration.

From the first UX person in the company I built up a team of 20+ UX and UI developers both onshore and nearshore to work across sprint teams to deliver lean UX for a complex RPA and automation SaaS product.

Created the strategy and implemented best practices and programmes to make sure that the company was not only design-led, but fully accessible.

Built up a team of UX and engineers to design Pingit and then Barclays Mobile Banking.

Mentored apprentices and led teams in 4 countries to create innovative solutions for the Bank to rapidily test and prototype new features.

Led a team of engineers across Barclays Eagle Labs to work with startups to create solutions and 3D printed prototypes to scale and grow their business.

Paul Wilshaw🇬🇧