United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

UX Research

The Art Institute of Portland

Colorado State University

Bill Dingwall

Lead UX Designer

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Design systems

User research

Figma

Google Data Studio

Data visualisation

Product analytics

Product strategy

Qualitative research

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

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

UX design lead and manager. Leading multiple design, research and product initiatives. Setting up qualitative and quantitative research processes. Mentoring junior designers and onboarding incoming PMs.
 
Led the launch of a new feature which has seen over 200 million supplied, had 4x the conversion rate of the current experience and became the #1 source of TVL.

Product design lead and pm for the growth team. Provided quantitative & qualitative research, visual design, illustration, content strategy, design patterns, user flows, wireframes and wrote dev tickets to refine the servicing funnel. 
 
Iterated over multiple A/B tests to improve the serving funnel conversion rates by over 20%.

Product design lead for multiple core business units. Worked across multiple teams to build new products and expand existing products that ranged from payments systems and member management, to dashboards and website builders.
 
Led development in the redesign of our web apps and marketing site. Worked with other designers, developers and QA to help us adopt a component-driven design approach.
 
Helped grow the Club & League line of business from a 3 person product team with 80k monthly revenue, to over 20 people and 900k revenue.

Freelanced with clients to build websites, design identities, create print materials, develop products, connect with customers and build custom paintings while pursuing my own art. Sharpened my skills in multiple areas of design, development and marketing.

Clients: Hero Design Studio, Chronos Interactive, TeamSnap, LucentPDX, Footlocker and a several others.

Bill Dingwall🇺🇸