United States

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Game Design

Interaction Design

Rebecca Urry

Product Designer 2

Typography

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Team player

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Accessibility

Information architecture

ChatGPT

Figma

Framer

InVision

Lucidchart

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

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

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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

- Designed AI-driven workflows; shortening users’ task completion from days to hours
- Created an expandable table pattern; used by more than 66,000 users and 2 products
- Decreased implementation issues by 20%, through co-leading a development and design workshop with 66 attendees
- Managed 3 interns’ workloads and mentored them on IBM’s Design System
- Reduced UX specification delivery time by 80% through product training for 50 developers and 12 designers

-Built agile design process to integrate consistent user feedback into the design process.
-Designed Ancestry.com web banner promoting DNA test kit for company’s 4 million users.

-Launched Alexa’s Tide skill for the Amazon Echo.
-Developed conversational tone for Alexa’s Tide skill by mapping anticipatory user questions.
-Constructed voice UX flowcharts enabling step-by-step instructions for 200+ stain questions.

-Improved internet access for 5,800 low-income residents through trainings about free Wi-Fi spots and cheap Internet options.
-Conducted primary and secondary research on low income residents’ internet usage behavior.

-Wireframed and prototyped an IBM internal skill and career building website used by 400,000 employees.
-Conducted usability testing on new hire website to improve semi-annual onboarding for 150+ designers. 
-Directed prototyping for 5-person multidisciplinary team designing internal career development website.

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