United Kingdom

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

4-week Francais General + Immersion

Bachelor's Degree

Stephanie Irwin

Senior Product Designer

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

Figma

Miro

Sketch

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

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 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

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

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

• Developing design system documentation for   loyalty program components across iOS, web and Android resulting in greater team alignment.
• Building Android design language in loyalty team resulting in greater cohesion to Android UI pattern best practice in our initiatives. 
• Crafted a new template for handing off work, resulting in improved way of working with engineering and faster delivery. 
• Mentoring junior designers weekly through design critique and check-ins, resulting in improved delivery, performance and team cohesion.

• Lecturing students on career development, design thinking and prototyping apps.

• Involved in all stages of discovery feed product development from determining features to solutions. Regularly sharing process to 200+ colleagues, and working across Web, iOS and Android to ensure design continuity

• Conducted user research resulting in an app onboarding overhaul, which increased onboarding completion by 20%+

• Collaborated with product management and engineering to address feed overwhelm, resulting in: content that increased feed engagement by 30%+, and a new content format that balances needs of customers and the business, customers describing it as “modern” and “easy to use.”

• Tasked by Deepr to improve the intuitiveness and social functions in their app

• Interviewed and tested the app with target users, developed a user persona and journey map

• Discovered that users desired a guided onboarding, less clicks from sign up to playlist creation, modern aesthetic and playlist sharing 

• Created a high-fidelity prototype with a concise onboarding, reduced clicks from 20+ to 8, devised a modern colour palette, created prominent user profiles and community interaction

• Regular visiting lecturer since 2019 discussing podcasting for the fashion industry 
• Guided students through podcast creation from idea to reality
• Lecture students on building their personal brand and getting a job in fashion

•	Scheduled and launched HTML email marketing campaigns to 800,000+ users

•	Targeted email campaigns to  subscriber segments, devised A/B tests that generated open-rates 1.0% above average

•	Created Weekly Google Analytics report document featuring actionable insights and commentary
 
•	Created first-ever report tracking clicks within email sections. Resulted in amended imagery and content placement

•	Built ‘Welcome’ push notification program, which welcomes new OUTNET app users through a push notification

• Podcast with 80+ interviews featuring industry icons ranging from Lululemon founder Chip Wilson to 374k+ subscriber YouTuber HauteleMode

• Highlights from the podcast include two sold-out live podcasts (50+ live audience) at the Lone Design Club pop-up, and interviewing the queen’s glove-maker

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