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About Diane

I help technical and non-technical people learn design.

If you're a designer:

  • Want to start a career in UX, but don't know where to start, or how to get hired. 👉🏼 I have online courses to address the typical UX hiring process, and how to create a UX Portfolio.
  • Not sure if your design work is good enough, and you want to improve your user experience skills. 🚀 I'll help you gain key skills with some of my online UX courses and articles.
  • You want to gain buy-in for your design vision and ideas from your cross-functional partners and have more influence at work. 😎 I'll share what has worked for me.

If you're in a business, technical, or marketing role or want to learn user experience fundamentals for your next project:

I can help you master:

  • The valuable basics of Figma and techniques to keep your information organized
  • Strategies for designing practical solutions for people, workflows, and complex scenarios
  • Learning how to think like a designer

Why learn from me?

There are many designers out there talking about UX. I've shipped ambitious projects for millions of people at Meta, LinkedIn, and PayPal (to name a few) and achieved amazing results.

Few people have the same impact and knowledge of what works and what doesn't. Few designers understand how to impact business with design to get results that benefit both customers and the business.

Now, I'm passing on this knowledge to you.

California Born, UX-Driven

As a born and raised Southern California girl, I discovered user experience when I went to school to be a librarian. Organizing information was my gateway to discovering design.

At top tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and PayPal, I've designed experiences for billions, applying my product-driven approach to consumer and B2B projects across mobile and web platforms. My expertise spans from crafting elegant user experiences to developing design strategies, product roadmaps, and organizational processes while balancing business goals and user needs. 

Public speaking events

I will occasionally engage in public speaking events with topics focused on design careers, product development, and design. Here's a few:

2022- Talk UX (Tokyo) - Driving Product Strategy

2015: Academy of Art (San Francisco) "Portfolio development" (Visual development students)