3: Leverage design principles to create the best experience for your users – Angélique Bélizaire (Product Designer)

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Have you ever heard the quote “If you build it, they will come.” from the movie Field of Dreams? That might have worked at the time that it was released, but in today’s economy that phrase speaks more to the dreamer than the successful person in technology.

Why? Because in today’s global economy, where there are lower barriers to entry for new businesses, products, and marketing, there are far more options for a customer or user to choose from.

To meet this shift in consumer behavior, companies are putting an increase focused on the consumer or user experience. This translates to understanding what problems users have, and building solutions that not only solve that problem, but also designing it in a way that is easy, useful, and intuitive to the end-user.

That’s where product designer Angélique Bélizaire, steps in as she leverages her passion in design to help companies build online products, websites, and features that potential customers will actually use (and enjoy themselves while doing it)!

Listen now to learn how to:

• Apply a 7 Step process to design thinking and implementation to create customer-centric products that people want and will use
• Utilize concepts like low, mid, and high fidelity to obtain consensus and test ideas quickly
• Collaborate with stakeholders of varying functions/ backgrounds to accomplish results faster

From Insight to Action

Angélique’s journey contains several times where she made an investment in herself to not only learn new skills but also demonstrate those skills in a tangible fashion.

Your Joyney: Share how are you planning to build and/or demonstrate your skills over the next two weeks to get a job in tech within the Empjoyment Community.

Getting to Know Today’s Featured Empjoyee: Angélique Bélizaire!

Angélique has found her EmpJoyment through the world of design, which she applies in tech through produce design. Angélique graduated in 2009 with a degree in Design.

She has worked as a freelance Designer in social media before making a switch to User Experience (UX) and Product Design. To accomplish this, she took a 3-month immersion class with General Assembly and then got a job working as a UX consultant before getting a job in tech at VenueBook.

She now works at a startup called Managed by Q as a Product Designer.