United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Copywriting

UX writing

Branding

Growth Hacking

Interaction Design

Growth Design

UX Testing

UX Research

UX Engineering

Content Strategy

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Ayush Saxena

Head of Design

Public Speaking

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Negotiation

Analytical skills

2D Animation

Accessibility

Figma

Sketch

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

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

Being a woman in tech

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

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

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

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

Working with engineers

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

I lead product and innovation teams through human-centered design, to uncover opportunities that expand our digital capabilities and solve our customers needs. I set the vision and strategy for design, prototype concepts across the customer journey, run experiments on new functionality, and then test and validate with users.

I have taken the company through two end to end redesigns - creating and managing brand and design systems that provide consistency and allow for rapid prototyping.

I set a high bar for quality and creativity while supporting individual development - fostering a culture of empathy, inspiration and trust.

I create partnerships with Product and Tech leads to set goals that achieve business and customer needs. I present updates to cross-functional leaders and executive stakeholders to assure alignment.

Owned product and marketing design initiatives at the company. Work with key stakeholders, including our CEO to prepare design roadmaps for the company. I have led the design team through multiple redesigns here, and have been instrumental in preparing our design system (WUI).

Have been instrumental in working with stakeholders and exploring various design applications of the business intent. Responsibilities included analyzing the research and analytics for better experiences and providing stakeholders with user journeys, roadmaps, personas, and UI design.

Used design thinking and rapid prototyping methodologies to create unique solutions for some of our larger clients. I also headed the design team that was responsible for designing solutions for the company's internal products.

Was responsible for design on various products founded by the company. Worked closely with the CEO on ideating requirements, by bringing user research data to the table earlier on in the ideation process. I was also responsible for prototyping design solutions for the company's clients.

SemiconSpace is an e-commerce website in the category of electronics parts. Worked with the stakeholders and the development team to identify various user pain-points in the website experience and to help increase user engagement. Assisted the team by conducting various forms of SEO checks and analytics to pin-point various usability issues the portal faced that discouraged or made it harder for a website visitor to convert to a customer. Presented the findings and proposed solutions for the discovered issues. Also worked with the company on some of the issues where usability testing was required.

Worked with the development team at Marketing Streams to roll out 3 android applications. Responsibilities included, analyzing the goals of the company for the mobile apps, creation of user personas, storyboarding, production of wireframes, designing of mockups, creation of prototypes and testing. Worked with the company on each application with successful results.

Worked with the company to design their marketing material, graphics design, and website. Managed the design, copy-write & editing or various marketing campaigns that covered mediums such as print (brochures, booklets, signages) and media ads (radio, theatre, etc).

Also worked with the stake holders to construct a UX process for the website design and guided them through it. Also assisted the company with A/B Testing and user feedback generation during the initial cycles of the process.

Also assisted the company in the designing of a custom CRM based on Microsoft Dynamics Framework. This was done using the UX process: conducted interviews with the stakeholders to determine their goals, created personas, conducted story-boarding, investigated the framework in use, designed wireframes, used the framework to create test modules, and helped release the CRM company-wide.

Developed multiple micro-sites for leading companies and web portals such as MSN & Accenture. Responsibilities included, creating wireframes based on user requirements document, creation of mockup variations based on approved wireframes, and creating functional front end webpages based on mockups. Was also responsible for the maintenance of the webpages that were developed.

Ayush Saxena🇺🇸