Amanda Loftis

Building and leading happy, effective design teams

I'm a product design leader who specializes in applying cognitive behavioral science to UI design.

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UX Research • Product Design • Public Speaking

Workshops • Research • Illustration

Leadership Style

As a design leader, I serve as a mentor, cheerleader, and sounding board for my team to help them become the best designers they can be. I also work cross-functionally with the broader organization to ensure my team is producing high-quality work on-time.

Active Coaching

Sharing feedback with your team shouldn't happen only during performance reviews.

By providing feedback often in 1:1s, weekly team meetings, and design reviews, I have the opportunity to coach designers through challenging situations and help them through to the other side.

Sharing feedback with your team shouldn't happen only during performance reviews.

By providing feedback often in 1:1s, weekly team meetings, and design reviews, I have the opportunity to coach designers through challenging situations and help them through to the other side.

Sharing feedback with your team shouldn't happen only during performance reviews.

By providing feedback often in 1:1s, weekly team meetings, and design reviews, I have the opportunity to coach designers through challenging situations and help them through to the other side.

Taking Responsibility and Driving Action

I take full responsibility for the work my team delivers and collaborate cross-functionally to see it through to production.

This translates to sharing business context with my team, adhering to timelines, and iterating quickly to accommodate edits and changes from stakeholders.

I take full responsibility for the work my team delivers and collaborate cross-functionally to see it through to production.

This translates to sharing business context with my team, adhering to timelines, and iterating quickly to accommodate edits and changes from stakeholders.

I take full responsibility for the work my team delivers and collaborate cross-functionally to see it through to production.

This translates to sharing business context with my team, adhering to timelines, and iterating quickly to accommodate edits and changes from stakeholders.

Facilitating Professional Development

To help my team level up their skills, I constantly seek out opportunities for them to grow.

Whether it's by leading a design book club, facilitating monthly lunch-and-learns, planning annual design retreats, finding conferences, or running workshops, I enjoy prioritizing my team's continuing education.

To help my team level up their skills, I constantly seek out opportunities for them to grow.

Crafting a Culture of Excellence

By cultivating a culture of safety and open-mindedness, I enable designers to create their best work.

A highly-effective team is one that not only delivers exceptional work, but that also feels energized and empowered in their roles, which is one of my primary goals as a design leader.

By cultivating a culture of safety and open-mindedness, I enable designers to create their best work.

A highly-effective team is one that not only delivers exceptional work, but that also feels energized and empowered in their roles, which is one of my primary goals as a design leader.

By cultivating a culture of safety and open-mindedness, I enable designers to create their best work.

A highly-effective team is one that not only delivers exceptional work, but that also feels energized and empowered in their roles, which is one of my primary goals as a design leader.

Projects

Throughout my career, I've had the pleasure of working on a wide variety of UI, branding, and print projects. Explore a few of my favorites below!

"Scratch" Handwritten Font

This sketchy, handwritten font is perfect for informal designs or anything that needs a personal touch like recipe cards, flyers, or notes.

Handwritten Wisp Font

A beautifully, wispy font that's perfect for body copy. Download the free font files on my Dribbble page!

Handwritten Scrawl Font

I love chunky, imperfect fonts so I thought I'd make one of my own! This font includes all letters, numbers, and 12 characters. See some samples and download the font for free!

Date Night Questions UI on a laptop and a mobile phone

Date Night Questions

A 2020 Golden Kitty finalist, Date Night Questions is a playful web app designed by me and built by my husband to help couples connect on a deeper level.

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Building and leading happy, effective design teams

Building and leading happy, effective design teams

Leadership Style

Active Coaching

Active Coaching

Active Coaching

Taking Responsibility and Driving Action

Taking Responsibility and Driving Action

Taking Responsibility and Driving Action

Facilitating Professional Development

Facilitating Professional Development

Facilitating Professional Development

Crafting a Culture of Excellence

Crafting a Culture of Excellence

Crafting a Culture of Excellence

Projects

Projects

"Scratch" Handwritten Font

Handwritten Wisp Font

Handwritten Scrawl Font

Date Night Questions

Get in Touch

Get in Touch

Get in Touch

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