Phil Buchanan is a product leader, designer, developer, and educator in Toronto.
Introduction
Phil is a product leader with over 15 years of experience applying design thinking to elegantly solve complex problems. He has a unique skill set, bridging product, design, and engineering. Phil is currently a design and engineering contractor at Coveware, a cyber extortion incident response firm.
Previously, he was the Vice President of Product at Tetra Trust, where he was responsible for all aspects of product, design, and engineering. Phil has run product and design teams at several startups, where he helped launch products that collectively reach millions of users. He has also developed and delivered interaction design curriculum to hundreds of students in the Department of Design at York University.
Phil graduated with honours from the York University/Sheridan College Joint Program in Design.
Specialities
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Design leadership
Hiring, career growth, coaching, project management
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Design education
Developing curriculum, lecturing, evaluation
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Design execution
User-centered, user experience, and user interface design, creating and maintaining design systems
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Product development
Product strategy, customer interviews, roadmaps, product specifications, agile development processes, project management
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Frontend development
HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript frameworks (React and Angular), accessibility, custom component libraries
Experience
Education
Bachelor of Design with Honours (BDes)
York University / Sheridan College Program in Design
Recommended Reading
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick Lencioni
★★★★★
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Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★★★★★
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Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
★★★★★
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Roger Fisher, William Ury
★★★★★
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The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
★★★★★
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Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
Tony Fadell
★★★★☆
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap… And Others Don’t
Jim Collins
★★★★☆
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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Clayton M Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, David S. Duncan
★★★★☆
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Ken Kocienda
★★★★☆