Hi! I'm Abbie :)

A design leader driven by crafting and coaching

A design leader driven by crafting and coaching

A design leader driven by crafting and coaching

I lead product design from high-level strategy to hands-on execution. Currently leading the team and shipping product at SkillsWave. Previously designing at D2L and Canadian Tire.

I lead product design from high-level strategy to hands-on execution. Currently leading the team and shipping product at SkillsWave. Previously designing at D2L and Canadian Tire.

I lead product design from high-level strategy to hands-on execution. Currently leading the team and shipping product at SkillsWave. Previously designing at D2L and Canadian Tire.

✦ 9+ YEARS OF ✦ DESIGN EXPERIENCE
✦ 9+ YEARS OF ✦ DESIGN EXPERIENCE
✦ 9+ YEARS OF ✦ DESIGN EXPERIENCE

My Work

Have a look around

Establishing the design team at SkillsWave

Built SkillsWave’s design team that accelerated product delivery, shaped the product, and brought design strategy to a new self-serve business model.

Manager of Product Design

Bringing SkillsWave's upskilling story to life

Designed a skills-focused onboarding workflow that unlocked and enabled SkillsWave to compete in a skills-dominated market.

Senior Product Designer

Designing course visibility rules at scale with Enhanced Enrollment Rules

Overhauled a complex visibility workflow into a faster, scalable experience that helped save an at-risk account and increased Discover adoption.

Senior Product Designer

Coming Soon: Accessible Drag & Drop and Collapsible Panel Design Component work

Senior Product Designer

Coming soon: Accessible Drag & Drop and Collapsible Panel Design Component work

Senior Product Designer

Currently Learning

AI Prototyping, Git and Tamil

Learning Claude and Cursor, and integrating AI tools into SkillsWave's Design Process

Developing helpful Claude skills throughout the explore and make phases our design process, expanding our AI prototyping capabilities in real product dev environments and experimenting with submitting PRs for front end code changes. Video above is an AI prototype of an investment chart for our analytics tool with full keyboard and screen-reader support (very excited about AI and accessibility potential!)

Git, Dev Environments, and Real Code Changes

I wanted to try contributing to small PRs with AI, so I learned about Git, dev environments, and pushing changes. It's been a game changer having my own environment! Most of my contributions are private, but if you go to my public profile (/abigailgoulet) you will see a record of my first repository created :)

Learning Spoken Tamil

My husband is fluent in Tamil so I've decided to learn as well. I take weekly lessons with a tutor in India. Tamil kashtamaa irrukkudhu, aana naan kathukkoraen! Idhu nalla irrukudhu. (Tamil is hard, but I'm learning. It's good!).

✦ 9+ YEARS OF ✦ DESIGN EXPERIENCE

About Me

Fun fact: I knew how to use a computer before I could walk.

I started with Sesame Street games at 18 months old, then custom MSN emojis, Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials, and eventually a User Experience Design course that led me to a degree in Global Business and Digital Arts. I realized along the way that my love for software and fun creative digital projects could be channeled to solve real problems for people, and I’ve been hooked on design ever since.

I've always looked for opportunities where I can learn the most. I love untangling messy workflows, taking an ambiguous problem space and creating something new, trying new tools, and leading design teams to do all of the above.

I started with Sesame Street games at 18 months old, then custom MSN emojis, Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials, and eventually a User Experience Design course that led me to a degree in Global Business and Digital Arts. I realized along the way that my love for software and fun creative digital projects could be channeled to solve real problems for people. I’ve been hooked on design ever since.

I've always looked for opportunities where I can learn the most. I love untangling messy workflows, taking an ambiguous problem space and creating something new, trying new tools, and leading design teams to do all of the above. Click here to see what I'm learning right now.

Outside of work, I like to play tennis, piano, sing, travel to new places (most recent: Chennai, India) and am a novice mechanical keyboard builder.

My experiences

I have had the pleasure to work with companies across a variety of industries. I'm always interested in new, exciting and challenging adventures.

JUL 2024 - PRESENT

Manager of Product Design at SkillsWave

I lead product design and design strategy for the SkillsWave platform, balancing team leadership with hands-on design and partnering closely with product and engineering to embed user-centred design into strategy and execution.

JUL 2024 - PRESENT

Manager of Product Design at SkillsWave

I lead product design and design strategy for the SkillsWave platform, balancing team leadership with hands-on design and partnering closely with product and engineering to embed user-centred design into strategy and execution.

OCT 2019 - JUL 2024

Senior Product Designer and Product Designer 2 at D2L

I grew from Product Designer 2 to Senior Product Designer at D2L (promoted April, 2023), designing across Brightspace and D2L Wave (now SkillsWave). I owned design from early exploration through delivery, creating user-centred, accessible solutions for complex learner and admin workflows.

OCT 2019 - JUL 2024

Senior Product Designer and Product Designer 2 at D2L

I grew from Product Designer 2 to Senior Product Designer at D2L (promoted April, 2023), designing across Brightspace and D2L Wave (now SkillsWave). I owned design from early exploration through delivery, creating user-centred, accessible solutions for complex learner and admin workflows.

MAY 2015 - SEP 2015

User Experience Designer at Canadian Tire

I designed prototypes for mobile apps, software and websites for teams across the company, helping the innovation lab test and validate new ideas.

MAY 2015 - SEP 2015

User Experience Designer at Canadian Tire

I designed prototypes for mobile apps, software and websites for teams across the company, helping the innovation lab test and validate new ideas.

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