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I overhauled school management operations, replacing outdated systems with a modern, scalable solution that improved class scheduling and operational efficiency.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

Employed.world

A side ambition project from the last 3.5 years, turned into reality this year :)

Founder

ITM Group of Institutions

- Leveling up Curriculum for B.Design in UX for ITM Institute of Design & Media
- Organizing workshops for academic team / teachers to provide relevant insights from Industry for their students
- Getting students ready with education and skills via Masterclass / workshops to support them with internships/jobs in UX.

Member of the Board of Advisors

TechLabs

President - TechLabs Berlin

Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences

- Responsible for translating product goals into UI/UX for an Augment Reality based research project focusing on reducing E-commerce return rate.
- Supporting User Research, defining Use cases & research synthesis
- Visualising Figma Prototyping
- Maintaining design assets in Figma and Unreal Engine 5
- Contribute to the roadmap by supporting other PMs and owing UX User stories
- Meditating between Brand/Marketing and UX
- Working with team of XR UE5 Engineers / developers to turn Figma prototype

Product Manager UX (XR)

ServiceHero

1. Requirement engineering - Collecting and structuring requirements from stakeholders for a new B2B application/tool
2. User story and sprint process (agile) implementation with engineering team
3. Creation of Wireframes (Lo fi ans Hi fi) for the new B2B app with stakeholder involvement 
4. Support in implementing new Design system for design and engineering
5. Support in hiring and evaluation of Junior designer in Team.

Product Owner (UX/UI) - B2B product

Hyper Island

Guest Lecturer for a session on Usability design and design fundamentals.

Guest Lecturer - Usability design

kfzteile24 GmbH

- Supported Product design activities in Search and catalog team for international sales channels of k24.
- During this time I took care of end to end lifecycle of the product features and epics assigned to me. 10 people including a PM, engineer manager, Backend DEVs, Frontend DEVs, QA Engineer, and Agile coach. (UX Researcher is common for multiple squads).
- Supported other Design projects such as Design System creation in Figma.
- Then my transition to product management was started so apart from my Product Design responsibilities, I assisted Principal PM of company.
- During this assistance period I worked with web tracking team to develop our internal Product analytic dashboard (funnel).
- Took 2 courses as part of my training and was trained by Chief Product offer and Head of product of Project A for Product management Essentials.
- Currently Responsible for K24’s Sales channels Website (Desktop and Mobile), both German and International Sales channels, one of them being autoteile24.de.
- Insight Generation: User Interviews (conducted by UX researcher), Hotjar (heatmap, surveys), Google Analytics (behavior event), Data studio (self-generated User Behavior funnel). Dev Handoff (Zeplin & Figma), Documentation and Tickets: Confluence and Jira. Quantitative User Testing: A/B Test using Google Optimise or Unmoderated User testing using Maze

IT Product Management (Product Design and Tracking)

Research-based activities:
- Choosing the right UX Methods for the development of a Decision Tree
- Usability Heuristics (ISO 9241 & NN Group) review for our products
- Choosing the right Colors for our Mobile App
- Qualitative analysis using Hotjar to understand user behavior towards website elements and proposing improvements.

Ownership tasks:
- Website search functionality redesign on an existing project
- User Interface design (catalog pages) for a new project (web & mobile)

Tools: InvisionApp (Prototyping), Hotjar, Abstract App, Adobe XD and Sketch

UI/UX Designer

Rekomendas GmbH

Contributed to the development of a personal digital health assistant by creating User experience journey, mood boards Wireframes and User interface design for its health application (which is at an early development stage).
Tools: Miro, Figma, Adobe Photoshop (PS)

UX Designer - Customer Journey Mapping

Just Wines

Taking care of the UI design & development requirements for the Webshop (70%) and supporting the Email marketing department with the Design & development of HTML-based Promotion Email templates.

Sr. UI and Brand Designer

Digital Marketing agency

Started as a Working student Designer, then Junior Web Designer, Mid level and Team lead, managing Web design projects with a small team of 3 designers, 5 engineers. Majorly involved in agency pitches with Sales team.
- Designing and developing Ecommerce Websites using Open Source platforms: Magento
- Designing and developing Corporate Websites using CMS: Wordpress, Joomla
- Account manger for of top Business Schools in North India

Designer (Web / Graphic)

2024 goal = Help 100 UX Job seekers by supporting companies to hire them efficiently.

Hi, I am building a social enterprise called www.employed.world to solve a problem that is close to my heart, i.e. the problem/difficulty of finding the first job. I started working when I was 13 years old. After a few odd jobs, I started my design career at the age of 14-15. Getting the first job was not easy then, nor is it today and sadly my research/ master thesis on the topic of unemployment told me that this problem is only getting worse.
High-speed Technology advancement and profit-driven companies may be the top cause but I am yet to learn the system better. So last 2-3 years I tried to understand the problem and the system by volunteering in organizations that are trying to help job seekers. Some were individuals and startups who ran out of energy or money and on the other side there were non-profits which is personally not a long-term efficient solution for me to help job seekers.
There are of course businesses like boot camps that are bridging the gap between what University teaches us and what companies need. But sadly the problem is even out of their hand and now thanks to them selling the dream of becoming a professional in 3-6 months there are way too many job seekers in the market than entry-level jobs.
So the moment of truth came this year when I was unemployed for a period, this time allowed me enough time to introspect and choose the direction I wish to take for my future. and I decided to start talking about this to people around me in the UX industry. I also needed to find a sustainable business to run as a profit-making company so I could reinvest the profits to grow and not rely on donations/funding.
I feel lucky that I found that. Not just a business model but many supporters who inspire me to take the lead of faith and go full-time on this journey of building a social enterprise that aims to help UX job seeker get their first job faster by creating more entry-level positions in the industry/Germany. Why UX? Because of my experience, I can leverage my network of emphatic individuals to help job seekers together. Please message me if you feel like knowing more about this goal or supporting me in any way or if you have come all this way to my profile and read it then just wish me luck, trust me I need a lot of it :)

Yashvir C.

An event I was awaiting for a year and which is close to my heart ❤️ is happening on 24th and 25th November at the prestigious Rotes Rathaus in Berlin.
The AsiaBerlin Summit 2025.

I would like to invite you all this celebration of collaboration between Berlin & Asian companies, government networks and startup ecosystem.
(Signup link in comments)

I am contributing this time with:
1. Facilitating the networking area to help 500+ businesses from Berlin/Germany joining the Summit to connect with 200+ businesses joining us from Asia to expand into Berlin/Germany.
2. Moderating a Talent panel discussion to ask tough questions respectfully to key stakeholders of the system. Will post about it more.

Yashvir Chawla

Building an institution to research & heal the job market for job seekers.

Dear design leaders in my network, over past 2 years you have been an essential part of building Employed.world with me where I met 100+ amazing empathic and mentor-minded leaders, and you have trusted me by sharing your struggles and challenges.
Now to support this growing leadership community we are hosting a paid workshop day in which we’re gathering emerging leaders in Berlin for a workshop that meets the moment we’re in.

Here’s why:
Stepping into leadership during times of constant change is challenging. Today’s leaders must hold two truths at once: teams need stability and clarity, and the work itself requires continuous reinvention.

Too often, leaders navigate this alone, without mentorship, peer exchange, or a clear sense of direction.

This is why Employed.world invites you to join us on December 11th in Berlin at our safe space and venue sponsor Seminar-mit-Spreeblick. thank you Renny for supporting us to create a space for leaders :)

Therese Sharp and Ida Persson will each host a two-hour workshop designed to help emerging leaders reflect on what leadership in design can look like in moments of uncertainty.

Two workshops. Two hours each. Twenty spots per group. This will be a space of honesty, reflection, and shared experience.

Event Details
Date: Thursday, December 11
Location: Berlin
Time: 12:00–18:00
Price: 200€
Early Bird: 99€ (limited)

A delicious lunch, ready-to-use learnings, and an empathetic community are all included

Event singup with details about each workshop / information are in comments.

emerging leaders 

Last week Friday I had a conversation with a highly capably job seeker in UX from Employed.world who checked all the boxes I could think of, yet still in the job market with a big blindspot.

job offers in Employed.world community got so higher that I almost start believing that the job market is back to normal. But speaking with the Senior UX person stuck in this job market made me realised how being even a Senior is not that easy when you are not passing the first round. Your blindspot keeps increasing along with frustration.

So tomorrow I am excited that Employed.world, Ladies that UX Berlin, along with our community partner IxDF - Interaction Design Foundation is hosting "Reducing Job market Blindspots", a fireside format , this time online with a Josh Williams, hiring manager for 2 Senior UX Research roles at Superhuman.

Signup link in comments.

The session is moderated by the person who inspired me with her work on supporting the UXR community: Lucija Sičenica.

See you tomorrow!

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