Canada

Bachelor of Design

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Aqil Raharjo

Service 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

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

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

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 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

Contributing to the development of qualitative research frameworks anchored in empathy, human-centred design, and systems thinking, ranging from interview guides to remote collaboration best practices. Specializing in insight-driven rapid prototyping and visual design that champion user and business needs. Helping strategists, researchers, and consultants translate ideas, data, stories, and make them impactful. Artifacts include strategy decks, digital prototypes, packaging, toolkits, training and improved experiences. Leveraging service design heuristics (i.e. sprints, facilitation, co-creation, and validation sessions) to better understand complex, often systemic challenges as well as to uncover actionable insights and develop meaningful artifacts (i.e. organizational model, journey map, service blueprint).Collaborating with teams with diverse backgrounds and expertise, and developing better ways to collaborate remotely through continuous iteration and learning. Clients range from telco, care providers, pharma to retail.

Generated, tested, analyzed, and reﬁned brand ideas for new initiatives using data-driven methods. Developed brand fundamentals, ranging from strategy (brand pyramids, architectures, tone, and voice) to execution (logo design, packaging design, motion graphics, and branding) for new initiatives. Contributed to the development of qualitative and quantitative research frameworks, including focus group discussions and consumer-centric design research.Revamped the current product's positioning, direction, and strategy (drinkqii.com). Collaborated in a cross-functional team, from scientists, data analysts, digital strategists and account executives. Facilitated brainstorming sessions to develop engaging online and offline brand experiences with outcomes ranging from strategy, copy, website, packaging, booth design, sales collaterals, animation, and photography.qilart.com/dosebiome

Designed logos, movie posters, branding systems, presentations and UI layouts (website and mobile). Clients include: MARZ VFX, Pepsi, Electric Feel MGMT, The Trolley.

Created visual work, animations, and decks for IBM. Produced, directed, shot, and edited videos of IBM executives on offerings for its clients.

Schnap was originally a university project, inspired by the struggles students like myself were facing when working on projects at OCAD University. I am postponing this project due to immigration reasons but am hoping to revisit this and/or other entrepreneurial ventures when the time is right.

Explored 3D modeling and various animation software, created stop motion ads, designed logos, and branding systems. Clients include KitKat, Lego, Toyota, Disney XD.

Graduated with Distinction (maintained an overall academic average above 80%)Developed solutions and designed one of a kind visual outcomes based on extensive research that meet and exceed project objectives. Explored new mediums and emerging tools that support strategy proposed on every project. Successfully managed to submit all projects on time with satisfying results.Received two scholarships, Jan Van Kampen scholarship (2015) and Al and Muriel Elliot scholarship (2017) for academic excellence.Overall grade: 84.8

Designed the event’s logo, merchandise promotion posters, external proposal, crew & participant IDs, banners, and stage backdrop.

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