022 - How to Work With Developers, GitLab’s Product Development Flow, and Setting Clear Work Boundaries With Gina Doyle of GitLab

Today, I’m talking to Gina Doyle.-Gina currently works as a Product Designer designing the testing and runner aspects of the CI/CD features at GitLab. Before GitLab, she once worked as a contract designer at Instacart and Hera Realty Group and worked in-house at Red Hat for multiple years. Also in October of 2021, Gina started a design consulting company, SVG consulting group, with her brother and mom, which I found super fascinating.-During our conversation, one pattern that I realized in Gina’s career was that she was always designing in highly technical areas, primarily in developer and internal tooling. Thus, we delved into pretty technical stuff, and Gina shared valuable advice about working with developers, GitLab’s product development flow, and tips for any designers about to enter a technical field. If you want to improve your collaboration skills with developer, this episode is filled with goodness for you. So, without further ado, here was my conversation with Gina Doyle.===Highlights⭐ GitLab’s product development flow⭐ How Gina managed 3 jobs at the same time⭐ Tips for designers entering a highly technical field⭐ Best practices for designer x developer collaboration⭐ How Gina found contract design opportunities===Links🔗 GitLab’s Product Development Flow🔗 Patternfly - Red Hat’s Design System🔗 Red Hat OpenShift===Not Just Pixels is a student-led UX Design podcast that strives to help you grow as a designer and get that next design internship or job. This is the podcast I wished I had as a design student, and I hope you’ll get something valuable from this show.===Have a great day! :)