Professional skills

Qualified Digital Product Designer

1. Core skills

Collaboration
Working in an agile environment facilitating collaborative group activities and workshops with stakeholders across the business.

Feedback
Actively seek and provide constructive, actionable and considered feedback on team work in a 1:1 and team review setting, including the facilitation of feedback sessions with internal and external stakeholders.

Growth mindset
My commitment to continuous learning and adaptability allows me to embrace new challenges with enthusiasm, ensuring that I deliver solutions that are not only innovative but also future-proof.

Presentation
Ability to concisely present my knowledge in both verbal and written forms to a variety of audiences.

Time management
Managing multiple projects over a long period of time, delegating work where necessary and establishing a strong reputation of reliability and accountability.

2. Design skills

Brand
Translating brand assets from print to digital, ensuring a cohesive story, accessibility guidelines are met and maintaining a strong visual identity.

Delivery
Producing and documenting usable and responsive user interfaces to a high fidelity, for development within known technological or business constraints.

Design process
Justifying all designs with data-led research and solutions, from discovery through to delivery. I am able to confidently explore and design a wide range of ideas and potential design solutions with clients and colleagues using data guided collaborative workshops.

Design systems
Efficiently creating and consolidating UI components and reusable interaction patterns to form coherent design systems, libraries and guidelines. Using my understanding human behaviours and technical constraints in an existing product space to create and test new design patterns. Ensuring all components within the design system are accessible to at least AA standard.

Prototyping
Producing large scale prototypes that display a wide variety of intricate behaviours and interactivity as well as larger scale animation.

Validation
Measuring the impact of design work by facilitating lab-based & remote usability testing that produces a high standard of research findings and design recommendations. Following verifying this with quantifiable research techniques such as conversion rate optimisation.

3. Strategy skills

Architecture
Able to confidently architect information and content using a variety of mapping techniques.

Discovery and insight
Able to conduct a variety of generative research techniques to help reveal potential challenges & opportunities within a product team

Vision
Establishing the mission, goals and desired outcomes of each project within the product team and how the mission affects the wider business needs, long and short term product goals, and the user.

4. Leadership skills

Community / sharing
Taking the initiative to share project updates, findings and skills with co-workers to increase shared performance, productivity and knowledge.

Direction
Proactively seeking to improve team morale, motivation and inspire the best in others.

Community / sharing
Taking the initiative to share project updates, findings and skills with co-workers to increase shared performance, productivity and knowledge.

Mentoring and teaching
Onboarding new designers, and conducting 1-to-1's and informal discussions with colleagues focussing on aligning process, growth and culture.

Self-awareness
Understanding my strengths as above, but also understanding my weaker skills, such as illustration and motion. Then creating plans to increase my knowledge in these areas.