Singapore

Diploma

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Zachary Black

Senior UIUX Designer

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

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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

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 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

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 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

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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

— Heavily hands-on digital designer, working in agile teams, closely collaborating with project managers, developers, copywriters & other UIUX designers
— Creates data-driven user flow wireframes, user interface designs, prototypes, illustrations & design documentations
— Communicates & presents designs proposals, pitches and decisions based on design thinking & fundamental principles

Helping designers around the world that want to enter the industry through portfolio reviews and career advice on Digital Design.

— Leading & managing the design team
— Design Team vision, philosophy, goals & long-term strategy
— Design Team Growth & Happiness
— Design Team documentation, resources & collective intelligence
— Design Team performance, feedback, mentoring & general supervision
— Design Team Hiring & Recruitment
— Drive Coherence across Teams with Cross-Functional Peers 
— Design Lead (Digital Product Design)
— Conceptual Design & Creative Direction (Marketing Campaigns & activities)
— Collaboration in the Company's Processes & Initiative
— Collaboration with C-suits & Stakeholders (Coordinate & Plan Delivery Efforts)

— Internship Mentoring & Supervision
— Internal Branding & Website Design

— Web Design works on multiple small/mid-sized projects
— Branding & Identity Design (Logo, Brand Visual & CIS, etc.)
— Visual Design & UI for In-house POS System (MITOPOS)
— User Interface for Customized Web Portal Solution (Human Resource & Logistic Industry)
— Social Media Marketing (Facebook & Instagram) with more than 20 accounts from various industry.
— Revamp Company Branding & Visual
— Clients: DBS, GOVTECH, Nation, Froth, Shan Cheng, Two Wings, ThinkTattoo, etc.

— Fulfilled my dream to work at Advertising Agency =]
— Superfast pace environment with constant Pitching & Meetings daily
— Work on Advertising Campaigns, Corporate Digital Collaterals & Branding Materials.
— Pick up InDesign/Editorial skills while working on a lot of Militaries & Corporate Commemorative Book
— Clients: Circle's Life, Lenovo, Singapore's Grand Prix, NTUC e2i, S'pore Discovery Centre, 2016 Effie Awards, SPCA

— Proposing a Brand New Revamp of Actually + Case Study land me the 1st job in Singapore
— As an in-house designer, I work with a super wonderful tight team including marketing strategists & the creator.
— Responsible for all Marketing Materials, Promotional Collaterals & Digital Marketing (EDM, Social Media etc.)
— In-charge of Visual Merchandising with campaigning in Actually Store  
— New Web Design, manage to revamp a new site for Actually.sg combining eCommerce & lifestyle blog
— Participate to create an In-house team product (Actually Everyday) from production to launch

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