Egypt

Cairo University

Ahmad Magdi

Product Designer

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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

Getting the most out of my internship

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

How to get promoted

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

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

Building an effective team

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

Keeping team members motivated

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

Managing a remote team

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

Managing people

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

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

Managing burnout

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

Working remotely

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

Choosing metrics and team goals

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

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

Running effective meetings

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

Design career path

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

Being the only designer

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

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

Conducting good user research

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

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

Ahmad Magdi🇪🇬