United Kingdom

Product Design

Bachelor of the Arts

Richard Laxa

Product Design Lead

Usability Testing

Product strategy

Leadership

Branding

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

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 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

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

• End-to-end UX facility management platform for IPC products (Infection Prevention and Control).
• Led the user research stages to output personas/user Journeys/usability Testing
• Championed design thinking and led educational workshops with the creative studio and R&D
• Facilitated in innovation workshops for the FM Platform & IoT enabled capital equipment
• Co-led the tech strategy and IoT R&D.
• Partnered closely with the Tech, R&D and Hardware team in a Lean/Agile environment
• Mentored a designer throughout the whole process.

Senior designer across digital interactive campaigns and experiences covering web, social, mobile development processes. Creating end-to-end experiences for BrandUSA, Gaviota, Sanya Tourism Board, and Iberostar Clients.

I was positioned around healthcare, and government clients. Providing internal/external clients with professionally finished, creatively designed, high-level reports, presentations and proposals (InDesign/PowerPoint). Working alongside consultants to tackle complex ideas and data into a logical and visually engaging format quickly and efficiently.

Working to improve on the MT sales model. Working closely with client advisors, stakeholders, developers and marketing specialists to produce effective marketing material. My workload functions between interaction concepts and designs for new site features, content, improving existing interactions and functionality through qualitative data.

Lead design workshops for all marketing emails, in-house studio graphics, as well as trade show marketing material.

Handling client accounts in the high fashion retail, design, and broadcast sector. Advising training requests for learning and development managers. Pitching ideas to Companies to help improve their teams. My job was to make sure our clients were getting the best out of their training budget.

Assisting the Creative Lead with basic Cinema 4D modelling and animation. Whilst helping out with general artworking.

A retail platform used for artists and illustrators to gain exposure for their work whilst offering the opportunity to create something that will inspire the illustration community. Super-Superficial is a brand that sell limited runs of t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies. I was employed to find artists & illustrators to collaborate with. Visual merchandising using Photoshop mood-boards, pitching to independent and commercial retail outlets.

Selling bicycles, spreading the love on two wheels. Convincing everyone that cycling is the way to commute into work.

I Introduced students to Motion Graphics & Design Inspiration Techniques. The Educational Curriculum in the Philippines is still quite a dated area, where Art is "Fine Art" and Graphic Design is shelved under "Communications". Our Job was to expose the students and offer free after school classes to extend their knowledge by teaching them different aspects of Art and Design, by fusion.

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