Brazil

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Graduação

Yumi Tanimoto

Head of Design

Usability Testing

Public Speaking

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Presentation skills

Leadership

Branding

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

User research

Swift

Webflow

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Asana

Figma

Miro

Notion

Sketch

Typography

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

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

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

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

Getting the most out of my internship

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

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

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

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

Working with engineers

Worked as a part of the White Prompt design team, my responsibilities include:

- Holistic vision: Designed features from end to end including research, ideation, information architecture, drawing flows, user interface, and high-fidelity prototyping across a multiple-faced platform.
- Strategy: Participated closely in the project strategy creation and scope, helping the product and engineering team visualize and define the sprint's next steps assertively.
- User focused process: Proposed improvements after conducting moderated user testing sessions and analyzing hotjar insights from screen recording.
- Documenting and organizing: Crafted figma component libraries to be used across multiple products and organizational formats, providing a design environment friendly and easy to understand to new designers and non-designers teammates.
- Flexibility: Helped the team with what was needed at the time other than designing, such as doing QA and writing stories.

Worked at Pixel as an UI and UX designer with a wide variety of customers, allowing a significantly different experience with each new project. These projects include: E-commerce in various segments, native applications, hybrid applications, institutional websites, among other digital products. 

Being a consultancy agency, I also had experience in the following activities:

- Client communication: Worked closely with clients collecting briefings, participating in scope definitions, making presentations on various stages of the project, from information architecture to high-fi mockups.
- Design governance: Planned and executed organizing and documenting strategies with other teammates, providing a healthy and productive design environment.

his was a short but valuable experience. At CINQ, I worked as a web designer, creating the interface for applications and clients' websites. I worked in multidisciplinary teams with front-end and back-end developers, analysts, managers, and testers. We used the Scrum agile methodology with daily ceremonies, planning, and other meetings.

This work taught me to improve my communication with people from other areas and to present to them how our work would complement each other to create the final product.

After being selected for the prestigious Apple scholarship, I created iOS products using Challenge Based Learning, applying user interface knowledge and exploring all the processes involving launching a digital product from ideation to publishing it on the AppStore.

- Self-driven learning journey: Proposed a study plan focused on learning and deepening my knowledge of the UI and UX fields, always proactive in trying new things and searching for the solutions myself.
- Practical experience: Extracted all the potential from the CBL methodology applying every new knowledge in projects to solve real world problems, having ht opportunity to learn to try, fail and propose new solutions.
- Collaboration: Worked with multidisciplinary teams, experimenting with project methodologies, self-managing and knowledge sharing. Improved soft skills, communication and feedback techniques.

At Signo I played the role of Web designer, creating layouts for clients' web pages, and later, their HTML and CSS with the support of a front-end coworker.

It was a challenging and interesting internship because I started with zero experience in front-end and after a year, I was able to end my cycle with enough knowledge to create the HTML and CSS of a responsive website from the beginning, using Sass.

In this design and marketing agency, I worked with a small team of designers creating visual identities, social media, brand manuals, and other types of materials related to branding in general for local clients.

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