United Kingdom

UX Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

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Rachel Simpson

Director of UX

Portfolio Advice

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

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

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

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

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Multiverse is creating an outstanding alternative to university through high-tech apprenticeships. Valued at US$1.7 billion after raising the UK’s largest EdTech funding round ($220 million series D), with VCs like Lightspeed Ventures, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, & D1. 

Scaled the UX team from 5 to 18 full time members over 2 years, hiring in talent from companies like Amazon, Stripe, Gousto, and Babylon.

Drove company-wide product vision for 2 years running in partnership with VPs of Product & Engineering and CEO Euan Blair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc4KmXoA3DE

Google Go is the Search app and browser for low-spec Android devices in fast-growing (“emerging”) markets like India, Indonesia, and Nigeria, with over 500 million downloads. It offers a lighter, faster way to search, even on slow connections and smartphones with limited space and performance.

Led Design for innovative features with light, collaborative design squads, managing & mentoring junior team members. Launched Google-wide internal conference on Design for Gender Equity (a key focus of work on Google Go in the Search Org and across other Google products).

Drove strategy for Chrome’s next billion users, designed & launched features to bring them online. Set Chrome 2017/2018 strategy with Project Management (PM), wrote PM onboarding materials, successfully advocated to hire in-country researcher. Shipped: 

- New tab page redesign, including content suggestions
- Downloads Home and core downloading flows
- Offline pages
- Data Saver page preview UI
- Audited and reworked 66 network errors
- Autoplay muting, autoplay policy changes
- Material Design offline patterns and behaviors spec

Later, drove strategy for a significant shift in the way Identity works in Chrome, in tight collaboration with PM and Eng. Led an alignment effort across Product Areas and led Design for innovative features.

Designed and launched an intuitive and considerate experience for Kids Accounts across Chrome platforms, including Desktop, Android, iOS, and Chrome OS. Drove a user centric process, requiring needs-finding and iterative user research throughout. This work formed the foundations for the wider Kids Accounts work across Google. Shipped:

- Support for Kids Accounts in all account surfaces and first run flows
- Permission request flows for webpages and Chrome Extensions
- Parents’ homepage for managing permission requests and other content
- Account & settings iconography for Kids Accounts

Was selected from a group of 3600 (alongside 16 others) to join Seth Godin for a 2 week intensive. We built a prototype for a new take on massive online education called Krypton. It became the foundation for The Acumen Academy, which has now impacted 8m lives.

Designed concepts and products in the areas of smart consumer electronics and health care. Produced the "Nova" concept video, a new vision for home training equipment, which received a 2013 Interaction Award in the category “Disrupting” http://nova.lunar-europe.com

Website, app and game production and with clients like Pokemon and TinySpeck - now the ubiquitous productivity software, Slack.

(mod7 since acquired by OXD)

Created iPhone and Android applications, Web Apps, and websites for clients like DriveNow & BMW, and Munich-based startups like Freeletics and TurtleBox.  Taught Video Prototyping at Hochschule München.

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