United States

Product Design

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Interaction Design

Growth Design

UX Research

B.F.A

Shannon Ray

Director of Product Design

Usability Testing

Typography

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Accessibility

User research

Product roadmap

WordPress

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Canva

Figma

Jira

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

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

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

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

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 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

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

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Bestow is a digital life insurance company building its business on smart data and a first-of-its-kind full-stack technology platform. In a world in need of greater financial resilience and protection, Bestow is democratizing access to smart financial products like term life insurance.

As Bestow's first Product Designer, I brought to market the core underwriting experience as well as the customer and administrator-facing policy dashboards. All projects were built on Bestow's own early-stage design system.

Post original launch, I now split my time delivering new product features and growth-designing the main enrollment funnel as well as bringing online new distribution channels.

Supported one of the largest mobile advertising platforms in the world by providing design for dashboards, development tools, and user flows.

Main responsibilities consisted of converting product requirements into wireframes and high fidelity designs which were then built with my design guidance.

Yvolver's Player Engagement Platform allowed mobile game developers and publishers of all sizes to better and more easily engage, monetize, and create relationships with their players. 

Lead the design of the main in-app engagement product, its configuration dashboard, Yvolver's company website, engagement ads, and for company pitch decks.

Handled design and oversaw implementation of web products for national and international arenas, convention centers, performing arts centers, sports teams, and ticketing services—all built on a proprietary CMS created for the event industry.

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