Tag: Coaching
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Build a foundation for success with an assessment
All organizations make trade-offs to get where they are. To meet its near-term goals, your organization had to make tough choices about what to prioritize vs. defer, which best practices to follow vs. shortcuts to take, and when to invest in the team vs. make do. Your team has made progress, and that’s good. It’s…
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Get off the feature delivery treadmill by visualizing your future initiatives
Working without a product vision is not sustainable Product vision can be a powerful thing. It tells a story of what’s possible and pulls people toward that change. A lack of vision can be insidious. At its best, it leads to missed potential. At its worst, it can lead to unmotivated, burned-out teams and a…
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Design Leadership and Assessment for a Growth-Phase Fintech Startup
My client, an established, mid-sized fintech startup, built an impressive, data-rich product. Because they had limited design support, the team focused on proving functionality aware that they were incurring usability debt. This led to a powerful tool with a complex UI that had to rely on the company’s expert customer service support to explain. To…
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Kindred Motorworks // Blueprints App / MVP
Role Director of Product Design, Discovery Coach Industry Tech-enabled automotive manufacturing startup Context Kindred Motorworks is in the business of modernizing and electrifying classic cars, or in their words, “Making your formerly irrational desire for a vintage car completely justifiable.” Kindred relies on blueprints, the custom teardown and restoration instructions, to allow the team to…
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Realtor.com // Referral Manager / Lender Integration
Realtor.com is a trusted resource for home buyers, sellers, and agents. Realtor service connects buyers with agents, giving agents information about the buyer’s budget and preferences. To help give the buyer-agent team an edge in competitive markets, Relator partnered with a digital-first lender to bring pre-approval data to the agent service.
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Lab Zero // New Hire Experience
Role Senior Product Designer and Director of Design Industry Custom software design and development, coaching, and leadership. Timeline Initial MVP: <1 week to create and test. Followed by continuous iteration and refinement based on new hire and support team feedback. Outcomes Skills Full case study available below Context Lab Zero is a cross-disciplinary product design…
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Giving and receiving design feedback effectively takes practice
It’s not always easy to give and receive design feedback. A negative past experience might make a designer hesitant to ask for or participate in a review. Unfortunately, we can’t produce good work without getting or giving feedback. Practicing giving and receiving feedback will help us grow as a team. This guide provides an overview…
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Design Review Best Practices
The goal of design reviews Design is an iterative and collaborative process. It takes many conversations to get from an initial idea to a complete product. Early conversations may be about getting alignment on the problem space. Other conversations may be about getting sign-off to start building the design in code. For this guide, we…