India

Aadesh Mistry

Principal Product Designer

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Define the design strategy for a new SaaS product that helps large organisations achieve security and compliance of their cloud and on-prem resources. Also leading design effort on another product that helps companies optimise resource usage and cost across the enterprise and in the cloud.

Evangelised user experience discipline within the organisation. Developed and executed user experience (UX) strategies for individual products. Also, help set up a 10 person UX team for a company that never worked with designers. 

- Designed a business intelligence tool for a large pharmaceutical company to track the performance of their drugs. The solution helped the company gain realtime performance insights.
- Designed a big data cockpit for leadership and business functions that improved the efficiency of the client's ‘Business Intelligence and Insights’ team and increased efficiency of the patient support staff by 50% due to the ‘patient attrition model’.

Owned product & design strategy for multiple products.

- Designed & developed a solution that helped find the right STEM profiles using a scoring technique that helped in quick decision making for hiring managers.

Lead UX efforts and provide design consulting for many startups and enterprise customers including QuickHeal, Tata Interactive, MakemyTrip. Also lead a team of designers on multiple projects providing design solutions in a time bound manner.

Built design solution for an enterprise wide marketing resource management products that include strategic planner, campaign management solution, customer segmentation designer and real-time artwork producer.

Provided user experience consulting services to multiple enterprises and various fortune 500 companies. Also worked as a project team leader and focal point for all design deliverables.

- Conducted a user research study for a large European bank on future prospects of introducing convenience of accessing financial services through interactive TV channel (iTV) in India.
- Provided design consulting for a US government-sponsored enterprise, Fannie Mae, to improve the usability of their financial risk management product.

• Provided consultancy to various teams on usability and interface design, including heuristics 
evaluation and cognitive walkthroughs for their web as well as desktop applications. 

• Implemented the user centered design process while designing the company’s intranet as well as 
intranet applications.

• Guide a large web site development team in implementing user centered design methodologies 
during their application redesign efforts. Responsibilities included analysis, developing user 
requirements and key personas.

• Played a role of a communication designer while creating visual campaigns across the organization.

• Developed the user interface design for the television as well as kiosk.

• Provided Pre-sales support by understanding on the project/concept and based on the brief decide 
on the mode of production, technology to be used, resources needed and time estimate for the 
project. 

• Decide on the concept and visual idea and preparation of the mockups/ prototypes.

• Execute the project by heading the team during the production stage. Allocate work among the team 
and decide on the timelines and the methodology.

• Play a project leadership role for the Design Solutions team and bring about growth, strong 
processes and quality measures.

• Gather requirements and develop detailed specifications for new development.

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