John Blanco-Slingerland Email & Phone Number

Alameda, CA, US

Minimum Viable Progress is dedicated to empowering emerging UX design leaders who have ADHD. I specialize in providing coaching that addresses the unique challenges of ADHD. My mission is to help design leaders by applying strengths-based systems to drive impact, prioritize, and earn the respect of colleagues. Here’s how I can help:- Enhanced Organization.

Seattle, WA, US

San Francisco, California, US

Mentorship and Career Development: Cultivated and mentored a highly engaged product design team which contributed to an increase in team skill levels, as measured by internal assessment metrics, and directly supported 5 team members in achieving promotion to senior roles.Elevated User Experience: Led the team responsible for a pivotal redesign of the.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Focused on building a culture & practice where user-centered designers thrive and want to grow their careers
• Develop processes and standards that drive consistency and empower the team to do their best work
• Build, disseminate, and maintain process documentation.
• Set and lead OKR workshops and regular check-ins as an OKR coach
• Coordinate communications and identify dependencies across cross functional global teams
• Mentor, coach, and inspire a team of designers, by developing skills, providing vision, and direction

San Francisco, CA, US

• Leading a team of cross disciplinary designers that span across the product experience lifecycle including core product domain experiences, admin experiences, operations, and content design
• Define UX process, document, and evangelize UX methods across the Product and Design team
• Defining agile standards for the Design team
• Facilitate and lead design reviews and structured skills workshops
• Developed assets to tell the story of our product experiences through storyboarding, user journeys, prototyping and other storytelling methods.
• Developed a strong relationship with Product and Engineering teams to see design projects through to success

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led the team responsible for the successful launch of the administrator and product education experiences. Focused on empowering customers to get maximum value from AppDynamics products and services, optimized for ease.
• Partnered with Product Managers to define and scope requirements that improved the administrator workflows
• Developed high fidelity wireframes, mock ups and prototypes used for stakeholder presentations, customer research, and engineering builds
• Partnered with the engineering team during agile sprints to develop design assets into live code released to our customers
• Partnered with the product education team including instructors to improve the experience of education and learning platform including introducing a new LMS and making it easier to sign up for courses and successfully.
• Participated and lead user research sessions to understand user intent and improve the usability of the product experiences

Mclean, VA, US

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement Spend Analytics, a data visualization tool used by 155+ major retailers, helping them gain insights into customer behavior and competitive trends through anonymized Capital One data.Led the End-to-End Design of Spend Analytics: Partnered with Product and Data Science teams to create a.

San Francisco, CA, US

Womply’s mission is to use technology and data to support and grow small businesses. As part of a close-knit design team, I collaborated directly with the Company Founder, Product Managers, and Engineers to deliver market-ready solutions in a high-paced, iterative environment.Launched 9 Product Features, including Womply Messenger: Designed and shipped a.

Rancho Cordova, CA, US

• At Digital Gear, I was a team leader directly responsible for the quality of the work. I introduced a research-based, human centered design approach that ensures we understand the goals and needs of our users. Our.
• Art direction
• User experience design
• Conducting user research and interviews
• Brand development & visual design
• Presenting & discussing research, user experience decisions, and visual design solutions to clients

San Francisco, California, US

• As a visual designer I was involved in research and user interviews, I worked from wireframes, and designed solutions which reflected what we learned throughout the research phase. This involved working.
• Designed solutions which reflected what we learned throughout research
• Worked collaboratively with engineers to create prototypes in HTML and SASS
• Presenting & discussing research, user experience decisions, and visual design solutions to clients

• As Product designer, I work closely with the engineers and the project lead to design, and develop an intuitive and simple experience. I'm involved in graphic design, branding, and mobile UI.
• Developed a visual language, user flows, and design system for a native iOS product
• Worked collaboratively with engineers to prototype design solutions in HTML and SASS
• Worked Collaboratively with Product Managers, various stakeholders, and engineers to iterate and ship products to market
• Conducted usability testing & user interviews

Rancho Cordova, CA, US

As lead designer I was deeply involved in Project planning, information architecture, art direction, information design, web and experience design, project strategy from desktop to mobile including user experience and client services. While at digital gear I also assisted in a company rebrand including brand strategy and development.

Maintaining and developing websites for several record labels, as well as designing micro sites for bands. Graphic Design and layout for band flyers and layout for album art.

Bachelor'S Degree, Web Design And Interactive Media

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Graphic Design