India

Graphic Design

UX Design

B. Com

Hsu Ka An

UX Designer

Communication

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Accessibility

Design systems

Balsamiq

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

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

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

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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

I am responsible towards software designing and optimization of techniques and routines for the software products and solutions developed by the company.Job Responsibilities also includes:• Working with product team to take high level requirements or use cases and elaborate those as process flows & wireframes.• Creating design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant.• Translating requirements into user workflows.• Evolving user workflows into high fidelity mockups.• Creating and maintaining UI patterns uniformity across products.• Product design: Collaborating with product management and engineering on various aspects of the product design & development process.• User Research: Organizing end user interviews and usability tests as input into the design process.• Imagining, building, and refining the experiences that define our platform across mobile, navigation and web applications• Working with sales and marketing teams to create visual designs for corporate collateral and email communications• Establishing and promote design guidelines, best practices and standard

Summary: Responsibilities•	Requirement analysis of design from client requirement specification documents.•	Proposing screen flow and developing wireframes of application screens using Balsamiq / Evolus Pencil / Google Slides.•	Designing pixel perfect individual application screens ( Desktop / Mobile )•	Creation of application prototype walkthroughs using InVision Web App.•	Shortlisting, Conducting tests and interviews of candidates for company’s designers position.•	Interacting with clients and co-ordinating team members on projects deliveries.Some of the Key Projects I was involved with:Company’s flagship Event Engagement Mobile Applicationo	Project Role: iOS and Android Mobile and Tablet Application UI Designo	Duration:	January ’11 – till dateo	Project Overview:	Web Spider’s flagship product, Event2Mobile an industry leading mobile application for user engagements in conferences and events.o	Client:	In-HouseTransport Expense Claim Android Applicationo	Project Role: 	Requirement analysis, screen flow wireframing and UI design of Android Mobile Application Designo	Duration:	February ’14 – till dateo	Project Overview:	The client wanted to create a mobile application whereby their employee could keep a track of their transport expenses on official trips so that they can claim them at the end of the month. o	Client:	A Dept of Singapore GovernmentA Web Application for Visualisation of Store merchandise placements visualisationo	Project Role: 	Re-design of an existing Web Applicationo	Duration:	December ’13 – June ’14o	Project Overview:	The client wanted to Re-design their existing web application which allowed user to visualise and plan the position and placements of their products on store shelves and aisles.o	Client:	A leading UK  based virtual retail reality solution provider

•	Designing both Flash and HTML based e-learning courses for corporate clients.•	Estimating timelines, scheduling deliveries, co-coordinating with the content andtechnical functions in designing WBT courses.*	Key Contributions / Recognitions•	Was the first recipient of the “Green Belt” in the Kolkata Centre in skill inPhotoshop. Green Belt is awarded, as a part of the in-house Competency Management Systemin recognition of an individual's competency in a particular tool or area.•	Conducted a training on “Tips and Tricks of Photoshop” across all Graphics Band.•	Won an in-house Logo Design Competition, which was conducted as a part of an exerciseto come up with a logo solution for a client's requirement.•	Successfully helped in designing several HTML Based 508 Accessibility CompliantCourses.

ResponsibilitiesIn charge of the Front-end design of the Company's Flagship web-based ERP Software builton ASP.NET Platform.•	Define and execute the overall look of the ERP Application including its pagestructure, usability and icons.•	Create / manage the front-end pages (.aspx files).•	Integrate CSS with application's HTML & .NET Controls.•	Design/maintain the corporate website, edominer.com.•	Prepare Marketing Materials for the ERP Solution, viz. CD Covers, Advertisements, Webpromos etc. •	Design and manage client's Flash Projects from concept to execution.*	Key Contributions•	Centralised the design of the entire application by converting major layout elements ofall the pages from HTML based TABLE to CSS driven DIV based layout, this also helped inoptimizing the file sizes of most pages by 20%.•	Designed a small in-house Excel Application for tracking Bugs and Tasks, featuresincludes use of Shared Workbook, cell validation and Deadline indication.•	Conceptualised and executed the development of HTML Online Help for the ERPApplication, implemented the use of “Macromedia Contribute” for this purpose.•	Designed several Flash sites for different clients, among them one includes a fulldynamically generated menu (blueandblues.com).•	Designed peoplewareindia.com, a sister concern of eDominer Systems Pvt. Ltd. used a DivBased CSS layout for the entire site.

•	Conceptualization and Designing of websites.•	Coordinating with back-end developers on dynamic sites.•	Developing multimedia presentations.*	Key Contributions•	Designed the in-house the front-end of CRM for handling Domain & Hosting Support. •	Developed, iAbida Demo, a flash demo to assist users to an online software developed bythe company, the demo includes a custom made time navigation bar.•	Developed a Corporate Flash presentation for Pure Wellness, A health and Wellbeing Spa.Site Co-Designed: diadem.co.in, iabida.com;

Developed Corporate Presentations for:•	Calcutta Horticultural Farm (Flash); PowerPoint)*	Developed Companion CD (Flash) to accompany the magazine Pixel Depth, a magazine on Animation. *	Developed Websites for

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