Design Lead Brag Document Example
Q1 2025
Created a unified design vision for the year and aligned cross-functional teams
Date: January 22, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Design Leadership, Strategy, Alignment, Beyond
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Established a clear creative direction for the year, outlining priorities across UX, UI, research, and brand. Ensured teams worked toward the same long-term vision.
Formalized a design review process to improve collaboration and quality
Date: February 14, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Process, Design Ops, Collaboration, Medium
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Created a structured review cadence, defined critique guidelines, and clarified decision-making roles. Improved feedback clarity and reduced unnecessary revisions.
Led design accessibility audit across core product areas
Date: March 7, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Accessibility, UX, Quality, Medium
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Performed an accessibility sweep with designers and engineers. Prioritized issues, created action items, and improved compliance with WCAG guidelines.
Q2 2025
Led creative direction for Workflow Automation feature launch
Date: April 18, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Feature Launch, Creative Direction, UX/UI, Big
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Oversaw UX, UI, and visual direction for one of Offline’s most significant feature launches. Ensured consistency across product, marketing, and internal training materials.
Built team-wide design principles to standardize decision-making
Date: May 19, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Design Systems, Culture, Leadership, Medium
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Documented clear principles that guide design decisions across UX, UI, motion, and research. Helped reduce subjective debates and encourage consistency.
Wrote customer-facing microcopy for onboarding tooltips and UI elements
Date: June 11, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Mentorship, Team Development, Leadership, Small
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Provided structured mentorship sessions covering UX fundamentals, critique skills, and career planning. Empowered junior team members to take on more complex work.
Q3 2025
Led the redesign of Offline’s dashboard for clarity and better information architecture
Date: July 10, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: UX/UI, Data Visualization, Product Design, Big
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Oversaw exploration, wireframes, prototyping, visual design, and QA. Ensured the redesign addressed core user pain points discovered in research.
Established a consistent motion design system across product UI
Date: August 21, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Motion Design, Design Systems, UI, Medium
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Defined motion principles, microinteraction patterns, and transition rules that improved the product’s polish and clarity.
Ran cross-team design workshops to improve collaboration
Date: September 9, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Workshops, Facilitation, Collaboration, Small
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Facilitated sessions with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and CS to align on upcoming initiatives, uncover friction points, and generate new ideas.
Q4 2025
Directed UX/UI work for Q4 flagship product launch
Date: October 16, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Launch, Creative Direction, UX/UI, Big
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Led UX strategy, UI design, motion specs, and final polish for the quarter’s most complex release. Ensured clarity across all touchpoints.
Improved cross-functional project planning with new design resourcing workflows
Date: November 14, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Design Ops, Planning, Resource Management, Medium
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Created capacity planning templates, intake forms, and project forecasting guidelines to help the design team manage workload more efficiently.
Created 2026 design strategy and capability roadmap
Date: December 5, 2025
Company: Offline
Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Design Vision, Beyond
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Outlined long-term improvements across UX, UI, research, design ops, accessibility, and creative direction. Provided quarterly milestones and resourcing needs.
Kudos
“Your leadership made the automation launch feel effortless.”
From: Priya Shah — Director of Product
Date: April 30, 2025
Impact: Strengthened clarity across product, design, and GTM teams.
“The dashboard redesign changed how users understand their data.”
From: Morgan Lee — Senior Product Designer
Date: July 28, 2025
Impact: Improved workflow efficiency and made insights more actionable.
“Your design principles have become our north star.”
From: Hannah Cole — VP of Product
Date: May 29, 2025
Impact: Provided clarity and reduced ambiguity in cross-team collaboration.
“The motion system you introduced added so much polish to the UI.”
From: Daniel Brooks — CEO
Date: August 30, 2025
Impact: Increased product cohesiveness and improved user delight.
