I blend product strategy, experience design, and agile delivery to build the right thing—and build the thing right. Human-centered, collaborative, outcome-driven.
Starting with the "Who" and "Why" can uncover insights and unlock innovation at a deeper level. That clarity guides what we build and how we enable it across tech, data, and operations. This customer-first approach ensures every decision connects back to real human needs and measurable business outcomes.

Align product, design, engineering, and business around the DFV sweet spot that balances customer experience with technical capabilities and business vision — so trade-offs are explicit and value is measurable.

This integration creates transparency, reduces rework, and ensures every team member understands how their work contributes to customer and business outcomes.
The standard double diamond is extended to fully integrate agile SDLC so discovery and delivery operate as one system. This end-to-end framework ensures research insights flow seamlessly into development sprints, with continuous feedback loops keeping the entire team aligned and accountable.

Design works one sprint ahead of development, creating a steady cadence of validated solutions ready for implementation.
Release metrics and user insights immediately inform backlog priorities, ensuring we learn and adapt continuously.
A few representative deliverables you'll see along the way. Each artifact serves a specific purpose in de-risking decisions and building shared understanding across teams.
Stakeholder interviews, user feedback, competitive scans, lean canvases → Establish goals, identify opportunity areas, define unique value proposition.

Highly interactive, in-person or virtual facilitated session brings together stakeholders to build consensus, enhance collaboration, and unlock innovation.
Design Thinking activities enhances collaboration and out-of-the-box thinking to generate creative solutions.

Visualize user behaviors, needs, and interactions with these strategic tools to deepen understanding of the problem space and facilitate ideation of solutions that meet user needs and drives process efficiency.

Capture the relationships between different service components tied to a customer journey, including the customer actions, technology, processes, and data

Feature definition dives deeper to identify and refine the scope and prioritization of features to inform the product roadmap.
Epics, backlog, value/effort matrix, and roadmap connecting strategy to execution

Task flows map user actions, steps, and decision points within the application, while information architecture define the content organization and navigation, making user paths clear and intuitive.

Lo-fidelity explorations allow rapid explorations to quickly test and validate different concepts and patterns before investing in polished designs.

High-fidelity prototype provides a realistic, interactive representation of the future application, to facilitate discussion, build alignment and validate ideas in rapid iterations

High-fidelity prototype provides a realistic, interactive representation of the future application, to facilitate discussion, build alignment and validate ideas in rapid iterations

Successful teams thrive on transparency, rhythm, and mutual accountability to foster a productive environment that delivers consistent value while maintaining flexibility to adapt.
Invest in building strategic alignment, and anchored to customer data insights & measurable outcomes.
Regular design/dev syncs, sprint reviews, and stakeholder demos keep everyone aligned and informed.
Frameworks, playbooks, and toolkits to streamline processes and ensure consistent quality and standards.
Doris Mao Lin | Los Angeles, CA | 310-497-2949 | dorismaolin@icloud.com | linkedin.com/in/dorisl/ | dorismaolin.me
My Process: From Idea to Impact