Tyn Soltys

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Tyn Soltys

pronounced: tin | pronouns: she/her | location: Toronto

Product Designer/Design Engineer with 13+ years of experience across multiple contexts, industries, and stacks. From research to code refinement, data modelling to design systems, I bring sharp critical thinking, great questions, and plenty of ideas across the product lifecycle, all in service of making people's lives a little bit better with smooth technology experiences.


EXPERIENCE

 

💼 Experience Design Architect (Project Lead)

Slalom Consulting | November 2021 – Present

In the past 4+ years leading UX research & design on enterprise-scale projects across many industries, I have stood out for my exceptional ability to translate complex, highly-technical, and nuanced client challenges into simple, effective strategies (UI and beyond) that target the right problems with feasible solutions. I take pride in developing tailored approaches, workshops, and artifacts that help clients perceive their business, challenges, and opportunities clearly, frequently receiving formal positive feedback from clients and colleagues, including several Impact award nominations. I currently co-lead our Object Oriented UX Learning pod, and actively participate and coach others in AI-engineering & prototyping skills.


👩🏻‍💻 Designer / Developer / Consultant / Owner

Tynsoltys Digital Design Build | November 2013 – November 2021

End-to-end digital strategy, design, and development services for a variety of startup, SMB, and NGO clients. Projects focused primarily on modern, responsive, and maintainable custom coded Wordpress/Headless/React-built sites. Many contracts also involved new workflow implementations, branding support, graphic design, customer/UX research & strategy, content & marketing strategy, as well as digital training, process adoption, and change-management coaching.


📟 UX Designer (Integrations) — Contract

PagerDuty | March 2019 – December 2019

Refined and designed user flows and interfaces for key product integrations (Slack and Microsoft Teams) using a variety of research and prototyping methods. Worked to improve remote workflows and collaboration for our internationally distributed team. Acted as a design & UX ambassador to front-end dev team, initiated projects around visual consistency and accessibility improvements across our product, consulted on design system improvements and contributed code to React component library. Active member of PageABLE, our accessibility ERG.




🚌 EDUCATION


  • HackerYou Front-End Bootcamp 2015
  • HackerYou UX Certificate 2016
  • Queen's University BComm 2009


📓 INTERESTS


Music nerding, coffee enjoying, luxury Japanese stationery, spooky & paranormal FBI shows, meditation & breathwork, road/gravel cycling, wilderness adventures, scouting.


SKILLS


📐 DESIGN

  • Figma (Expert)
  • Miro / Figjam / JIRA
  • Information Architecture / OOUX
  • Service Design & Blueprinting
  • Product & Analytics Strategy
  • Design Systems & Libraries
  • Accessibility Audits
  • Responsive Design
  • Visual Design



🤖 AI

  • Claude Code & Cursor (preferred)
  • Agentic & Multi-Agent Use Cases
  • Figma Make / Lovable etc.
  • AI Research Synthesis
  • Context Design & Memory Banks
  • Prompt Library & Workflow Design



⌨️ CODE & DEVELOPMENT

  • React / Alpine.js / ES6
  • HTML5 / CSS3 / Sass / Tailwind
  • Storybook.js / Token Studio
  • CLI / git proficient
  • Astro / Gatsby
  • Wordpress / Headless CMSs
  • Markdown



💬 FACILITATION

  • User Research & Synthesis
  • Design Sprints & Innovation
  • Heuristic Analysis & Testing
  • Hybrid & Remote Workshops
  • Creativity Activators
  • Team Alignment
  • Curriculum & Training