Ireland

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Service Design

Product Design

UX Research

(BA) Interaction Design

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Renata Dima

Senior Product Designer

Linktree

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Presentation skills

Leadership

Project management

Content strategy

Data visualisation

Figma

GitHub

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

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

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

Career coaching for 50+ designers globally.

✅ Mentored and coached over 50 graduate designers globally, resulting in a 15% increase in job acquisition rate for those who have worked with me.
✅ Received recognition as one of the top mentors on the ADPlist platform out of over 10,000 mentors worldwide based on feedback from mentees and industry professionals in October.
✅ Developed and implemented personalized learning plans for each student, leading to an improvement of 25% in their design skills and critical thinking abilities.

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Storyful is a global social media intelligence agency that specializes in finding, verifying, and acquiring user-generated content for newsrooms and brands. They utilize cutting-edge technology and a team of journalists to curate and contextualize real-time social media content, helping clients make informed decisions about the content they share.

Working on the News and Content team as their Digital Product Designer.

✅ Drove an increase in video acquisition per person per day from 15% and counting in the first month of launching new research opportunities I identified.
✅ 31% overall increase in download rates per video clip on Newswire
✅ Researching the Intel Process workflow
✅ Ensuring the successful delivery of Intelligence Reports.

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Sylon helps organizations to define a product development process for new concepts by providing a suite of interactive tools to support them through their journey. Complete canvases Set required canvases to be completed by product team members at each phase.

✅ Revamped the website navigation systems by collaborating with user researchers to conduct usability tests and tree-testings with 12+ participants through workshops.
✅ Workshopped and facilitated ideation sessions with 10+ stakeholders and internal teams for alignment. ✅ Conducted regular user testing and made adjustments based on feedback to improve the overall user experience
✅  Spearheaded the design of Sylon's SaaS platform, resulting in a 23% increase in user adoption and a reduction in customer churn.

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Working on discovery and building projects in a UX and UI capacity as well as facilitating workshops and initiatives to improve the company.

✅ Irish Transport Company: Conducted user research and created personas, journey maps, and wireframes for the company product marketing page. Increased conversion rate and decreased bounce rate. 
✅ Conceptualized, designed, and built an end-to-end product process with a business analyst and team of developers.

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Led the team working on a mobile application design and conducted research activities such as analytics, usability testing, customer insights and other quantitative/qualitative insights as appropriate to advance ideas.

✅ Conducted research activities such as analytics, usability testing, customer insights and other quantitative/qualitative insights as appropriate to advance ideas. 
✅ Created deliverables including Information Architecture (IA), user flows, wireframes, interaction design, rapid proto- types and visual designs 
✅ I collaborated closely with product managers, developers, researchers & the marketing team. Assisted project groups in defining interactive systems to support business goals.

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As part of the BuildIt program, I worked on a project to create a safe platform to support women during COVID-19  

✅ Collaborated with 2 designers, 2 data scientists, 7 developers and 2 researchers in building a Progressive Web App to support women aged 18-30 (~4 million people) during Covid-19 by providing helpful resources, content and COVID-related data

✅ Worked closely with the developers providing UX/UI design expertise
✅ Provided design support during development and execution; assist with QA to ensure designs are implemented accurately and with the highest standard
✅ Developed web-site mock-ups ensure QC and 100% client satisfaction before project development phase commenced.

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Renata Dima🇮🇪