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Product Design

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Risa Hiyama

Product Designer

Product strategy

Problem-solving

Negotiation

Figma

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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management 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

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 set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

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 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

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Discovery XD - Member Experience
Working on Discovery, Streaming, and Help & Support space. TV UI, Mobile App, Web, etc.

Studio XD - Studio Production 
Designed internal tools used by our Title Managers and Coordinators. As a design lead, I designed and shipped one of the flagship features that enabled our users to manage and track resources better so that they can make better-informed decisions. I also worked on app-specific design systems and UI guidelines which enabled designers on other teams to explore solutions within our product.

Working on upleveling my leadership skills with the top tier designers! 
https://www.beondeck.com/designers

Build the future of freight to deliver what the world needs faster.

Community is a texting platform that enables artists, public figures, and creators to text with their audience. I was responsible for leading the Engagement Pod as a triad leader. I have designed multiple flagship features that enabled personal communication at scale.

I worked directly with Phil Libin, the former founder of Evernote, on a Meeting app. I designed the app from the ground up, conducted user research, and facilitated Design Sprint.

I joined Graffity, an Augmented Reality startup in Tokyo, as the founding member. I was responsible for the product vision, user research, prototyping, branding, and also marketing. Our product, Pechabato became a huge hit among the Japanese teenagers and our App was featured in Apple multiple times.

I worked on the No.1 transit app with 40 million users as one of the only 3 designers. Was responsible for UI/UX.

Designed an IoT device for rice farmers with an international team of engineers in the R&D department.

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