DIA Design Guild

I formalized the program structure, introduced scalable processes, and implemented a CSAT measurement system to improve program effectiveness and participant satisfaction.

Key achievements include:
• Scaling the Apprenticeship Program: Formalized a structured 9-month mentorship model, improving project outcomes and skill development for junior designer apprentices.
• Mentorship & Talent Development: Recruited and managed senior designers to provide high-quality guidance for junior designers.
• Improved Project Management & Client Satisfaction: Developed formalized project management processes, leading to clearer expectations and increased satisfaction from client stakeholders.

Design Program Manager

Design Evangelist

Design Mentor & Instructor
Combining both teaching and mentoring, I have over 10,000 hours of experience.

• Served as an instructor at leading institutions, such as General Assembly, GrowthX Academy, Flatiron School, Seattle School of Visual Concepts, Product School, UC Berkeley, and Academy of Art University
• Developed curriculum for top programs, including Springboard, GrowthX Academy, Interaction Design Foundation, IxDF Bootcamps, Flatiron School, Product School, UC Berkeley, and Chegg
• Mentored through various community, bootcamp, and organizational programs

Design Educator

Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design

I overhauled school management operations, replacing outdated systems with a modern, scalable solution that improved class scheduling and operational efficiency. I also optimized design tooling and software resources, reducing costs and improving data accessibility.

Key achievements include:
• Scaling Course Offerings: Implemented a new school management system, enabling the organization to increase concurrent class capacity by 300%.
• Cost Reduction: Standardized design tools and software, eliminating inefficiencies and saving $100K annually.
• Data & Process Improvement: Applied information architecture principles to improve data accessibility and reduce data duplication by 90%.

Design Operations Manager

The Hired Guns

Worked in a fast-paced agency environment, specializing in design recruiting while also improving knowledge management for the team.

Key achievements include:
• Candidate Evaluation: Reviewed and evaluated 100+ UX designer candidate profiles and portfolios, assessing qualifications and fit for various design roles.
• Process & Knowledge Management: Built a Notion-based knowledge management system to document onboarding, create consistency in projects, and streamline the recruiting process. This significantly reduced the time required to train and onboard new employees.

Design Talent Partner

LinkedIn

I redesigned and standardized LinkedIn’s UX Design onboarding program, ensuring new UX designers could seamlessly transition into any product team and become productive faster.

Key achievements include:
• Onboarding Standardization: Designed and implemented a new UX designer onboarding program to improve ramp-up time and team integration.

IxDF - Interaction Design Foundation

• Led daily operations and strategic initiatives, implementing best practices to optimize the UX Design Bootcamp program 
• Increased member insights by 5% by instigating a regular research program
• Improved project planning and scheduling for UX Design boot camps, strategized new educational initiatives and created original UX course content

Flatiron School

I led Flatiron School’s San Francisco UX program, managing faculty and ensuring the successful graduation and job placement of cohorts of 20 design students. I introduced a cross-disciplinary collaboration program between UX and software engineering students, giving them hands-on experience working together.

Key achievements include:
• Student Success & Placement: Led Flatiron’s San Francisco UX program, ensuring strong job placement outcomes.
• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Built a structured program for UX designers and software engineers to collaborate on projects.
• Curriculum Improvements: Implemented course changes that led to a 20% increase in exercise scores.

Design Program Director

GrowthX Academy

I built and scaled GrowthX Academy’s UX design program from the ground up, designing an industry-aligned curriculum that prepared students for real-world careers. The program achieved a 90% job placement rate, and I oversaw the development of 40+ functional prototypes for web, mobile, and IoT clients through hands-on, project-based learning.

Key achievements include:
• Program Creation & Growth: Designed and launched an industry-aligned UX design program, achieving a 90% student placement rate.
• Client Project Experience: Guided student teams in developing 40+ functional prototypes for real clients, reinforcing practical UX skills through hands-on client collaboration.

Epsilon

I led a cross-functional team of 8, including UX designers, UI designers, and content strategists, delivering solutions for 10+ B2B and B2C clients annually, including Wells Fargo, American Express, Apple, Google, Cisco, and Genentech.

Key achievements include:
• Enterprise UX Leadership: Managed UX strategy and execution for Fortune 500 clients across finance, tech, and healthcare.
• Design Systems & Efficiency: Created scalable design systems, style guides, and component libraries to improve consistency across projects.
• UX Training & Advocacy: Led client workshops to strengthen teams' understanding of customer experience best practices.

Design Manager, Digital Design

TripIt

Drove mobile and web design for a top travel app. Implemented data-driven design practices and led design reviews to ensure high-quality releases.

Lead Product Designer

I'm a design program manager with a background in UX, interaction design, and education. I bring structure to design teams and help programs run smoothly.

I've worked across both industry and education, and I’m especially drawn to roles that support design teams building thoughtful, education-focused experiences. I thrive in environments where I can contribute behind the scenes—helping teams stay aligned, focused, and connected to the needs of users and businesses.

Over my career, I've built and led design operations initiatives, UX education programs, and onboarding optimization at organizations ranging from startups to global tech companies. I’ve formalized design processes, standardized tools, and improved cross-team alignment, helping companies scale efficiently while maintaining a strong design culture.

I’m passionate about solving organizational challenges that impact design teams, whether it’s streamlining workflows, improving collaboration between teams, or developing scalable solutions for talent growth.

Always open to connecting with others (include a note) working at the intersection of design, education, and impact-driven work.

Julia DeBari

Ding

I'm currently working across product teams at DING, where I design and maintain their web/mobile platforms as well as take part in the company's strategy.

Senior Product Designer

Storyful

Working on the News and Content team as their Digital Product Designer.

✅ Drove an increase in video acquisition per person per day from 15% and counting in the first month of launching new research opportunities I identified.
✅ 31% overall increase in download rates per video clip on Newswire
✅ Researching the Intel Process workflow
✅ Ensuring the successful delivery of Intelligence Reports.

Storyful is a global social media intelligence agency that specializes in finding, verifying, and acquiring user-generated content for newsrooms and brands. They utilize cutting-edge technology and a team of journalists to curate and contextualize real-time social media content, helping clients make informed decisions about the content they share.


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DMX Systems

✅ Creating meaningful UX deliverables such as information architecture flows, wireframes, user journeys, prototypes, personas and presentations
✅ Interpreting qualitative and quantitative data to understand design problems and suggest solutions
✅ Leading usability testing sessions with end users and making recommendations based on results
✅ Embedding and fostering a user-centered mindset across the group through consultation
✅ Preparing functional specifications for development team

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UX Design Consultant

BoatyardX

Sylon helps organizations to define a product development process for new concepts by providing a suite of interactive tools to support them through their journey. Complete canvases Set required canvases to be completed by product team members at each phase.

✅ Revamped the website navigation systems by collaborating with user researchers to conduct usability tests and tree-testings with 12+ participants through workshops.
✅ Workshopped and facilitated ideation sessions with 10+ stakeholders and internal teams for alignment. ✅ Conducted regular user testing and made adjustments based on feedback to improve the overall user experience
✅  Spearheaded the design of Sylon's SaaS platform, resulting in a 23% increase in user adoption and a reduction in customer churn.

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Product Designer @ Sylon (In-house)

Working on discovery and building projects in a UX and UI capacity as well as facilitating workshops and initiatives to improve the company.

✅ Irish Transport Company: Conducted user research and created personas, journey maps, and wireframes for the company product marketing page. Increased conversion rate and decreased bounce rate. 
✅ Conceptualized, designed, and built an end-to-end product process with a business analyst and team of developers.

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Product Designer

Umoja

Led the team working on a mobile application design and conducted research activities such as analytics, usability testing, customer insights and other quantitative/qualitative insights as appropriate to advance ideas.

✅ Conducted research activities such as analytics, usability testing, customer insights and other quantitative/qualitative insights as appropriate to advance ideas. 
✅ Created deliverables including Information Architecture (IA), user flows, wireframes, interaction design, rapid proto- types and visual designs 
✅ I collaborated closely with product managers, developers, researchers & the marketing team. Assisted project groups in defining interactive systems to support business goals.

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Hack Access

✅ Worked closely with the developers providing UX/UI design expertise
✅ Provided design support during development and execution; assist with QA to ensure designs are implemented accurately and with the highest standard
✅ Developed web-site mock-ups ensure QC and 100% client satisfaction before project development phase commenced.

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UN Women UK

As part of the BuildIt program, I worked on a project to create a safe platform to support women during COVID-19  

✅ Collaborated with 2 designers, 2 data scientists, 7 developers and 2 researchers in building a Progressive Web App to support women aged 18-30 (~4 million people) during Covid-19 by providing helpful resources, content and COVID-related data

Project Manager and Designer

Hey there! My name is Renata (she/her) and I'm a Senior Product Designer based in Cork, Ireland. I'm currently working across product teams at DING, where I design and maintain their web/mobile platforms as well as take part in the company's strategy.

More about me:

🏆 I am an  𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 Product Designer with a reputation for creating innovative and functional products that are both aesthetically pleasing and highly useful. With a degree in 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 and a background in software, I have the perfect combination of creativity and technical expertise to bring my ideas to life. My designs have won numerous awards and have been featured in emerging articles.

➕ During my leisure time, I love giving back to the community by participating in open-source projects and doing pro-bono work. Currently, I am excited to be working with DMX Systems in Berlin to improve the usability of their interface, and I am also honoured to be mentoring young students through 𝗔𝗗𝗣𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝗕!𝗚 𝗶𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 and 𝗣𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 programs as part of the RSA. Additionally, I am thrilled to be supporting graduate design students through 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 by providing design mentorship. These opportunities allow me to not only make a positive impact but also continue learning and growing in my field.

🥊 Additionally, I pursue a variety of physical and intellectual pursuits, including rock climbing, MMA, and hand-balancing. I am also a self-taught polyglot, proficient in seven languages and always looking for opportunities to expand my linguistic abilities. I find great joy in pushing myself to excel in these diverse disciplines, and I am constantly seeking new challenges to conquer.

𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀:
- UX strategy, User flows, Concept sketches, Experience mapping, Wireframes, Prototypes, Mockups,
- Design systems, Branding, Leading workshops, Project management 

Interested in learning more? 
📩 : InMail me or email me at dimarenata@yahoo.co.uk
🚀: Book a session with me on adplist here - https://adplist.org/mentors/renata-d

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