Philippines

UX Design

Service Design

Product Design

UX Research

Shannen Yu Sapar

Independent Product Designer

Dribbble

Website

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Webflow

Figma

Framer

Adobe Creative Suite

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

General mentorship

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

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 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

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

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

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

Collaborated with various teams across the company to assist in building new features and improving the product’s user experience.

Executed in all design stages from conceptualizing, conducting research, up to design hand-off. Created wireframes, storyboards, user flows, and other deliverables to effectively communicate interactions and design ideas.

Re-designed the web app and created the design foundation and style guide for the mobile app.

Delivered high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes. Translated user data into easy to understand visualizations for mobile and web.

Closesly worked with product owners and stakeholders to improve product conversion and engage users. Conducted heuristic evaluations, competitor analysis, and designed concepts, wireframes, and mockups. 

Illustrated book covers for clients and designed icons and other materials to compliment interface designs.

Created designs for web and mobile applications. Active involvement in creative solutions through front-end development.

Worked in an Agile development environment and closely collaborated with project managers and the engineering team to help clients flesh-out and execute their ideas.

Shannen Yu Sapar🇵🇭