India

UX Research

UX Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Generalist Product Management

UX writing

Service Design Research

Data Analysis

Master of Design

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

Aseem Saini

UX Research / Product

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Product analytics

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

Market research

User research

Typeform

Airtable

ChatGPT

Figma

Maze

Mixpanel

Notion

Confluence

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

General mentorship

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

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

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

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Helping multiple mid-to-large scale companies (100Cr+ revenue, 1M+ user base) make better business decisions through effective user research. 
Industries : Logistics, Finance, Insurance, Personal Mobility, Clothing & Lifestyle, Food

Providing pro-bono user research consultancy (free 1:1 call) to 0-1, 1-10 startups. Feel free to reach out.
Especially interested in products that ticks one of these :
- Enables doing meaningful stuff that is generally neglected due to xyz constraints
- Has utility for user research, experience design or product management
- Individual/Team puts high value on craftsmanship and reflection

+ First User Researcher at Apna. I led end-to-end user research & insights activities for B2C Candidate & B2B Employer Job Marketplace along with some business monetisation pieces
+ Building and systemising UXR practices, processes for lean research to support decision making across product, design & business functions

+ Helped 50+ user researchers, designers & product managers in learning how to conduct Product & User Research for their specific needs & contexts. 
+ Identified amongst Top 1% of global mentors on ADPList for 4 months. Amongst Top 10% contributors in India. Spent ~3000 minutes mentoring on the ADPlist

+ First UX Researcher at BetterPlace. Building & systemizing research operations and laying out research processes for B2B, B2B2C and B2C. Worked on multiple initiatives to strengthen DesignOps and Tech Org at BetterPlace
+ Planning, designing and conducting qualitative + quantitative research activities across B2C for 3 product pods (Job Marketplace, Social Community, Skilling). Conducting multiple generative & evaluative research activities covering attitudinal and behavioral dimensions.
+ Propagating user insights through B2C and bringing to notice potential product/ growth/design opportunities in the ecosystem. Building user understanding and empathy amongst the leadership, business, product, design and tech teams

+ Conducted strategic research for MIT + Harvard based impact startup accelerator for underserved entrepreneurs. Designed the website and operationalised marketing vertical.
+ Marketed 1st ‘Demo Day’ which witnessed 180% higher Investor registrations than expected. ~100 VC firms signed up & we supported 359 investor-to-startup connections.

+ The challenge focused primarily on teaching design-led-innovation methodologies to students from non-design backgrounds in an experiential-learning format. 250+ students from all over India registered for the challenge.
+ Conceptualised the program’s intent and goals, defined key stakeholders, and Designed ‘Methods Toolkit’ for all the problem statements.
+ Participants were provided with 5 real-world problem statements of varying complexity by our partner Design Driven Organisations and NGOs. The events team organized 6 webinars on design methodologies, research, and ideation by industry leaders.

+ Extracted insights and correlations from 300+ research reports generated from the Intern from Home Program. Worked primarily on data and sense-making to streamline the chaos into cohesive and actionable Design Reports targeting multiple Industries.
+ Identified amongst the top 5% of the 300 strong-cohort and selected for Meta-Research Initiative mentored by the CEO, responsible for consolidating and showcasing all the interns' work in the public domain under Creative Commons license.
+ Thoroughly studied 50+ Design Research Methods and learned when and how to apply them. Reduced each Research Method to its core to support rapid internalization, The happy accident organically grew into a Design Research Methods picture book for K-12 readers. The project was highly appreciated by the CEO and was featured on Program's Media Platforms

+ Advocating human-centered approach for problem identification, articulation and solving to aspiring engineers. Organised various workshops to nurture an ecosystem of innovation in IIIT Jabalpur
+ IIC 2.0 of IIIT Jabalpur was given the Performance Rating of 4.5/5 star with score 95/100 by The Ministry of Education

+ Co-ordinating hands-on studio sessions for undergrad students 
+ Post-session mentoring and project hand-holding

+ Designed 30+ issues of DU beat’s weekly print magazine with a circulation of 20,000 copies.
+ Designed multiple identity touchpoints and marks for the organization
+ Designed marketing collateral for multiple media platforms

+ Designed collaterals for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' first international engineering festival in the Asia Pacific Region with 1500+ participants from 20+ countries
+ Designed promotional creatives, brochures, print media, merchandise for various workshops, events, and competitions

+ Conceptualised the Festival’s theme & collaborated with diverse stakeholders for execution. Ensuring that the creative team deliver its best in given constraints
+ Designing posters, flyers, promos, banners, social media creatives & merchandise for the annual Techno-Cultural fest of LNMIIT Jaipur

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