United States

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Joy Liu

Design Buddies

Staff Product Designer

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Hi, I'm Joy Liu (She/her)🇺🇸