Germany

UX Design

UX Testing

UX Research

Bachelor's Degree

Hooman Abbasi

Product design team lead

Public Speaking

Communication

Problem-solving

Empathy

Team player

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Zapier

ChatGPT

Figma

Hotjar

Jira

Miro

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

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 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

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

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

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

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

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

Build and Integration of end-to-end design process to ship tested, market-fit features

Establishment of data-driven design and advocating UX maturity, aligning with company's vision to build friction-less b2b buying experience 

Expanding the design team to add more focus on different parts of the platform

Enhancing the design language of the company to empower integrity and build mutual understanding in cross-functional teams

Expanding the team from 2 product designers to an 8-sized cross-functional design team in diverse specialties, namely research, interaction design, visual design in order for the quality of the service to be increased through focus on different angles of design.

Creating an end-to-end design process from research to prototyping and testing, which has increased the speed of designing by 23% in a span of 3 months.

Creating a reusable design system with 4 different component libraries to speed up the initial phase of every project, which has resulted in a 37% increase in the speed of user interface design in a span of 3 months.

Generate reports on Google Analytics and Facebook Business Suite to conduct trend analysis for presentation of company’s portfolio on social media, to optimize organic reach from 2% to 13% in a span of 6 months.

Provide supervision for ongoing design projects, which decreased the number of revisions by 78% in a span of 6 months.

Directed a team of 10 Product Designers and UX Researchers in consistently delivering high-caliber design solutions for diverse clients, resulting in a 30% increase in client satisfaction ratings.

Spearheaded the implementation of streamlined design processes and collaboration tools, reducing project delivery times by 15%. This optimization allowed the studio to handle a 20% increase in project volume without compromising design excellence.

Instituted a client-centric approach to project scoping and communication, leading to a 25% growth in referrals and new client acquisitions. By consistently aligning design outputs with client objectives, the studio achieved a 40% increase in annual revenue.

Deployed surveys and field studies to evaluate business hypotheses towards customer behavior which led to solving problems that improved Net Promoter Score by 12%, Customer Satisfaction Score by 17%.

Deployed usability tests prior to digital experience redesign, which resulted in solving problems that improved Customer Effort Score by 47%.

Collaborated with the marketing department to develop customer gain strategies, resulting in an increase of over 20%.

Collaborated with the product management department to develop customer retention strategies, resulting in an increase of over 20%.

Developed process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of inter-department collaboration to align mindsets towards seamless customer journeys.

Taught over 600 individuals to be UX designers and UI Designers from the ground up with an employment conversion rate of 20%.

Mentored over 30 designers privately to work in prosperous careers in well-known companies and startups.

Wrote over 50,000 words of online academic articles published in the weblog of the academy.

Created over 50 hours of educational videos in the field.

Orchestrated the guidance and collaboration of 10 adept user experience and user interface designers. Across the span of numerous projects, encompassing over 10 distinct internal and external products.

Elevated online sim top-up and internet package purchase in the self-care mobile application by 10% through data-driven redesign and enhancement of the relative user journeys.

Boosted design and development velocity by 30% by conceiving and implementing an interdepartmental cross-functional design system and process.

Conducted UX studies with over 100 participants on Persian search engines, providing them supervision to increase their usability and accessibility.

Designed a modular design system and library, resulting in reduction of Development time by 30%.
Developed a comprehensive evaluation process from UX perspective, reducing team members’ onboarding time by 30%.

Led design sprints with client teams on 3 projects, running parallel, to develop technical requirements.

Worked closely with the Engineering team to ensure designs are executed as planned.

Designed the first Persian online university assessment platform, reducing the average student evaluation time by 70%.

Increased communication speed in local universities through real-time messaging by over 200%, replacing the traditional emailing system.

Enhanced retention rate by 30% through designing a behavioral push notification system, based on user’s engagement.

Provided freelance UX and UI Design consulting and leadership.

Worked with more than 20 startups to design UX and UI of their MVP, with a satisfaction rate of 85%, focused on Retail, FinTech and Education industries.

Designed mobile and desktop UI kits to be sold online and be used by other designers.

Worked with the Engineering teams to launch products using Agile Methodologies.

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