United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

XR Design

3D Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Interaction Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Amir Elabbady

Lead User Experience Designer

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Brand strategy

Content strategy

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

CAD design

User research

UserTesting

Webflow

Adobe XD

Axure

Figma

Framer

Miro

Notion

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Mural

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

General mentorship

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

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

Keeping team members motivated

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

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

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

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

Design career path

Taught the principles and best practices of user-centric design, along with hands-on lessons to teach UX research, interaction design, information architecture, and other practical design skills and processes over 10 weeks (full day) for 24 students.

Focused on creating effective and logical organizational structures that help identify relationships between pieces of content and facilitate the finding of information. Responsible for designing navigation systems, producing sitemaps, defining naming conventions, running usability tests, performing research on user behavior, and delivering production materials, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team across all phases of a lean UX process.

Notable Clients: Citi Bank

Designing for native (iOS and Android) apps and responsive web. I've been involved in all stages of the project lifecycle from conception and research to implementation and support. I have experience working closely with clients, business leaders and strategists, visual designers and engineers. 

Notable Clients: Anthem, Novartis, Footlocker, Walmart, David Yurman, AT&T, and Scholastic

Focuses varied across projects to communicate to engineers, managers, and client business stakeholders how future spaces would look by creating 3D models prototypes, instructional plans and diagrams, website dashboard development, video editing, and creating virtual reality 3D environments.

Notable clients: Minnesota Vikings, Kansas State University

As a UX designer, I create user-focused experiences across native mobile, responsive web and desktop platforms. I bridge the gap between business goals and user needs. I work collaboratively with internal teams (visual design, engineering, QA) to lead clients and keep their primary focus on their users.

Amir Elabbady🇺🇸