Tyn Soltys
ABOUT ME
An extremely fast-learning, pattern-seeking, and complexity-wrangling problem solver, I lead product discoveries and craft smart strategies and interfaces for enterprise.
P.S. pronounced “tin” | pronouns are she/her | located in
FAVOURITE WAYS OF WORKING
- OOUX (Object Oriented UX)
- Remote collaboration & hanging out on Miro
- AI-driven engineering (Team Cursor with Claude)
- How might we limit test Figma variables today?
- Design Sprints & making everyone draw
- Learning, leading, and including
Skills
With 10+ years experience creating in the digital space, I've helped dozens of clients design, build, and implement solutions across many industries & contexts. Resourceful, curious, and ‘unique’, I find smart and savvy ways through the fog/smoke/swamp/muck/mysterious ether
DESIGN
- Figma / Sketch
- Miro / Figjam / JIRA
- OOUX / Service Design
- Product & Analytics Strategy
- Design for AI / Prompting
- Design Systems / Libraries
- Information Architecture
- Accessibility
- Responsive Design
- Visual Design
- FACILITATION
- User Research / Interviews
- Design Sprints
- Various Testing
- Remote Workshops
- Ideation & Innovation
- Creativity Activators
- Team Alignment
- Curriculum Development
- Training
CODE-RELATED
- React / Alpine.js
- HTML5 / CSS3, Sass, TailwindCSS
- Storybook.js / Token Studio
- Basic CLI / git flow
- Gatsby.js / Astro.js
- Wordpress / Headless CMSs
- Markdown
- OTHER
- Microsoft / Gsuite / Slack
- Adobe Ai & Pr
- Leadership & Creativity Coach
- Event Planning
- Wilderness Advanced First Aid
- Bushcraft & Survival Skills
- Calligraphy, Crafts, & Fine Arts
- Fluent in Ukrainian 🇺🇦
Work
CURRENTLY
Consulting has been the ultimate school in empathy, adaptability, resourcefulness, communication skills, curiosity, and relentless learning. Whether its developing product & risk strategy, mobilizing design systems, or mentoring peers on new methods, the growth I've experienced here as a designer, leader, and problem solver is tremendous.
A recent promote, recipient of our Humble & Curious award, and nominated by clients for a few other impact awards, I co-lead our internal OOUX Learning Pod, participate in our Horizons (Neurodiversity) ERG, and collect receipts for our Do The Right Thing value.
I N D U S T R I E S
Non-Profit
Renewable Energy
Private Equity & Finance
Geoinformatics & Telemetry
Conversational AI for CX
Healthcare Staffing
Pharma/Healthcare Tech
Insurance & Banking
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LARGE PRIVATE EQUITY FUND
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Design-led requirements gathering
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Data visualization innovation & testing
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Figma variable-driven interactions for high-fidelity prototyping
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FE build recommendations (charting & UI libraries: Highcharts & Flutter)
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Release prioritization strategy
- Usability & hypothesis testing with actual scenarios / various user groups
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Client has returned for additional projects
- Final prototypes received by end-users with tremendous enthusiasm & excitement
- Inspired new ideas for similar initiatives in other departments
- I was nominated for a Customer Impact Award by our lead client sponsor
VISUAL DATA EDITOR
GLOBAL GEOINFORMATICS, TELEMETRY, AND ASSET MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
In this multidisciplinary discovery, our small but mighty team helped untangle years of complex workarounds (in the highly technical geoinformatics and telemetry domain) to design an efficient, performant, and trustworthy set of workflows for an industry-leader feeling held back by aging infrastructure.
Leveraging the client's tremendous data set, we proposed using ML to reduce redundant work, improve the accuracy of multiple processes through algo-driven UI feedback, and offer a variety of fresh ideas, UI improvements, and dashboards to help them learn to trust eachother and their systems: which we learned rather quickly, was the true problem we needed to solve.
- Led 4 weeks of in-person research, ideation, and design refinement workshops
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Developed glossary and held learning sessions for our team to better grasp a highly complex domain
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Collaborated with multiple global client teams to integrate learnings and converge on patterns across departments and applications
- Discovered and evaluated several design systems initiatives for potential use
- Client is currently in process of overhauling foundational infrastructure for next steps
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Our team's work was recognized by our client sponsor and we were recommended to HQ for futher/global partnership
- Found the limit of how many stickies you can have on a Miro
& AI SENTIMENT ANALYSIS FOR IMPROVED RETENTION
HEALTHCARE STAFFING AGENCY
- Conducted extensive first-, second-, and third party research
- Facilitated regular design+product workshops which helped shape product vision for the Retention team
- Adapted in-app micro-survey MVP for use in omni-channel retention campaigns
- Refactored and expanded upon existing Figma design library & design system
- Designed, iterated, and tested UI components for content, complexity, placement, and timing
- Initiated an AI-driven sentiment analysis project to help consolidate, refine, and pull insights from a massive collection of existing transcripts, interviews, and market research activities
- Collaborated with marketing to streamline communications
- Identified a strategically significant persona model that allows for better optimization of UX & CX journeys
- Collaborated with program leadership to streamline system-wide functionalities and communication touchpoints
- Helped unite and align siloed client teams (e.g. recruiting and marketing) by identifying common KPIs and streamline messaging
- After initial MVP delivery, our micro-survey was selected for continued investment due to effectiveness
- Participated in setup of Figma Token Studio-to-Storybook-to-code automation
... contributed to internship learning curriculum ... designed lots and lots of UI ... love to lead a lunch-n-learn ... will code some front-end for sushi ... will read tarot at company event for kitkats ... can make really cool powerpoints because i have to ... will graphic design for pizza
Other interests: crate digging/music dorkery, luxury stationery (i’m a planner/journal girl), spooky & paranormal FBI shows, meditation & breathwork, road bikes (to be resumed), wilderness adventures & scouting, legendary design titans and their creations, helping Ukraine 🇺🇦