A few things I'm pretty good at or have experience in

 

New project strategy

  • Leading discussions with stakeholders to identify who, what, why to clearly identify the problem

  • Running design/discovery workshops

Design strategy

  • Ability to articulate the user experience through personas, workflows and site maps, experience maps

  • Utilize AI to help brainstorm ideas and prototype quick solutions

  • Paper prototyping/digital prototyping

  • Wireframes and interaction design

  • Visual design

Content strategy

  • Designing CMS platforms to support applications and web content

  • Leading content restructuring projects by determining content architecture and hierarchy

  • Running card sorting exercises to determine appropriate content grouping

  • Utilizing AI for content support

  • Running usability testing and surveys

  • Managing QA process and reporting of bugs and improvements

Testing & quality assurance

  • Overseeing design team, reviewing work, estimating deliverables and reviewing budgets

  • As part of a leadership team, providing insight and strategy on behalf of the team and agency

Managing

Communicating

  • Pitching design rationale to internal and external stakeholders

  • Collaborating with entire team (eg. developers, PMs, AMs, clients, other designers) on design strategy, idea generation and design concepts

  • Drafting product requirements and user stories

  • Leading all design strategy related discussions, brainstorming and solutions

Applications I'm pretty comfortable with:

  • Design: Figma, Sketch, Omnigraffle, Adobe CC

  • AI tools: Figma Make/Claude, V0, Chat GPT

  • PM: Linear, JIRA/Confluence, Harvest, Slack, Zendesk, Zapier

  • Analytics+Research: Mixpanel, FullStory, Cycle