Canada

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Ryan Yao

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

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