Role on The Nest team: Lead Designer
Date: Q4 2020 - present
Date: Q4 2020 - present
The foundational thread that weaves together a consistent, predictable, and valuable 'One Canada Life' experience by functioning as an indispensable partner in the delivery of digital products.
Key areas of work:
Key areas of work:
• Spread awareness of the design system within the company through guidance, presentations, and design advocacy
• Support, mentor and provide feedback on work from a variety of product teams (labs) within the organization
• Created a robust Getting started support section, that includes detailed instructions for newly onboarded designers
• Implemented Data visualization & Table guidelines for designers, with job-aids and templates for ease of use
• Spearheaded the creation of a Vendor kit to quickly & easily share high-level digital brand guidelines to 3rd party vendors
• Conceive and deliver accessible components, patterns and icons
• Rapidly iterate on designs amongst technology and design constraints
• Write company-wide design system documentation
• Upkeep of the design system & icon Sketch libraries
• Creation of job-aids where required to assist & gain team understanding of processes
• Troubleshoot and help resolve any items that arise, such as AODA issues or bugs
• Have begun to create foundational elements and components for Canada Life - Mobile Design System
• Support, mentor and provide feedback on work from a variety of product teams (labs) within the organization
• Created a robust Getting started support section, that includes detailed instructions for newly onboarded designers
• Implemented Data visualization & Table guidelines for designers, with job-aids and templates for ease of use
• Spearheaded the creation of a Vendor kit to quickly & easily share high-level digital brand guidelines to 3rd party vendors
• Conceive and deliver accessible components, patterns and icons
• Rapidly iterate on designs amongst technology and design constraints
• Write company-wide design system documentation
• Upkeep of the design system & icon Sketch libraries
• Creation of job-aids where required to assist & gain team understanding of processes
• Troubleshoot and help resolve any items that arise, such as AODA issues or bugs
• Have begun to create foundational elements and components for Canada Life - Mobile Design System
The Nest timeline:
2019: Launched
2020: Migrated design system to InVision DSM (from internally hosted site)
2022: Migrating libraries from Sketch to Figma
2022: Implementing the Canada Life - Mobile Design System
2020: Migrated design system to InVision DSM (from internally hosted site)
2022: Migrating libraries from Sketch to Figma
2022: Implementing the Canada Life - Mobile Design System
