Skills and Qualifications
Here are my skills and qualifications. Yes, I know what AI is and what it can do :)
Design Strategy
How to translate a business strategy into a product experience, including integrating AI into a process or product.
Brand Strategy
Creating the brand voice, design language, brand architecture, and how to express the brand across all touchpoints.
Product Design or UX Design
Crafting a viable, desirable User Experience for humans and even machines.
User Interface Design
Design of human-computer interactions in multi-modal environments, desktop, mobile, AR, real world.
Visual Design
Color theory and practice, typography, iconography, illustration, photography, animation, video.
Prototyping
Generating lo-fi and high-fi that can be used, touched, experienced by internal and external people. Includes sketching=thinking on paper.
UX or User Research
Discover the unvoiced needs and unmet desires of humans, and fold the learnings into the product experience to iteratively improve the UX.
Content Strategy
How to translate the brand guidelines into words on a screen. Words matter.
Leadership
Building high-performing teams, consistently.
Mentorship
Mentoring people from other divisions, less experienced team mates on designerly or career building topics.
Public speaking
Going out there and telling a compelling story.
Design thinking doing workshops
Run design workshops with C-level and below on a wide range of topics, from envisioning the future to prioritizing items, getting alignment and clarity on what to do next.
Beyond Design chops and Leadership skills, I consider these to be important aspects
Ethics
Making decisions that are based on principles and values.
Conflict resolution
Being able to drive to a resolution via diplomacy and collaborative negotiation.
Humor
When appropriate.