Carbon Five Roll Call: Mandy Valladares, Senior Product Designer
Summary
Carbon Five Roll Call is a new blog series introducing you to your next team of product managers, designers and software engineers. Tell us a little bit about your background and area of expertise: While studying architecture early on in school I stumbled across a User Experience Design course and fell in love with it. Before coming to Carbon Five I designed for a mobile advertising company, spent 4yrs in Fintech (financial technology), and then moved into the agency and consulting world. It’s been the biggest learning experience for me to see how we leverage agile, design thinking, and ruthless prioritization to create the “smallest” product that holds up in the market. It has helped me learn how to be a strategic designer, and also become a thinking partner for products in their beginning stages.