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Kavita

Product Design lead

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

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

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

1) Shape new product ideas & initiatives through the use of human centred design techniques.

2)Leverage collaborative approaches & techniques (design thinking, MVP’s, rapid prototyping, etc) to understand business problems & uncover target audience along with their pain-points

3) Strategising and building solutions along with journey maps and personas using Human centered design principles and techniques

4)Work with the stakeholders, business owner, product managers and content teams to establish a refined and evolved suite of ‘evidence driven’ user personas to help inform future product developments.

5)Guiding and influencing stakeholders in constructive ways to build relationships & advocate User Experience methodologies & the value of looking at products/designs from the lens of an end user & the resulting impact.

6)Identifying and communicating user insights via UXR methods (User interviews, Usability testing, Diary studies, ethnographic studies, contextual inquiry, heuristic evaluations) to inform the next iteration & future product roadmaps of Movember products

7)Building working relationships with cross functioning teams (marketing and monetary evaluation) to tell a coherent story from an end user perspective. 
Came up with collaborative approaches to leverage data gathered across various functions to identify and validate the voice of customer

8)Working with the SEO partners to improve product discoverability

9)Support Product Managers throughout the development of overall product vision, objectives and organic evolution of the product roadmap

10)Clarify the team’s understanding of what is required to ensure high-quality and unambiguous user-stories are produced, and prioritised

1) Deliver end-to-end Service Design for Information Technology stakeholders and customers, using well established human-centred design and service design principles.

2) Work with subject matter experts and technology partners to understand needs, design future states, evaluate and iterate.

3) Developed an understanding of business objectives and technologies to design efficient processes and user experiences to ensure that IT services and solutions are helpful, lean and intuitive.

4) Evangelised UX practice within Honeywell by designing and conducting deep dive training’s and workshops for SME’s & Directors 

5) Conducted full-day UX training and workshops in India and United Kingdom

6) Created customized training material about various methodologies and how to adapt them within IT at Honeywell

1) Successfully executed and delivered formative and validation studies across a variety of industries and platforms, such as - agriculture, social media, ride sharing, information technology,
paint industry, banking, telecom for clients such as Amazon, Facebook, Uber, Qualcomm, Microsoft and Google

2)Proposals for new projects - identify the research approach , methods and technique that best fits the client requirement & constraints

3) Managed a team of researchers - recruited talent, coached from junior to senior level employees, assigned projects to match business needs & career interests , scoped and prioritized work.

4) Conducted studies to gather feedback on product features via diverse UX studies (usability tests, exploratory and contextual interviews, home visits) that translated to measurable improvements in customer experience.

5) Collaboratively worked with research and design teams across domains to help understand and gain user insights from primary research

6) METHODOLOGIES: usability testing (mobile/desktop/tablet) formative/summative interviews, user interviews, exploratory qualitative research, field research, ethnography, contextual interviews, heuristic reviews, product recommendations & actionable insights

7)Responsible for designing, recruiting, conducting, analysing, and reporting back findings from user research studies on a twice-monthly cadence (50+ studies; 4-12 participants each)

1) Visual Design - Dependable for grasping the brand voice and help communicate the same visually to the target demographic across multiple channels

2) Product/Design Planning, Development & Implementation

3) Design & Strategize collections in the realm of Jewellery & Luxury products Managed all design projects in coordination with all stakeholders, design coordinators, architects and engineers.

4) Monitored all executed all phases of design & web development process along with UX research and usability testing 

5) Plan and execute social media posts , shoots , website banners, google ads & marketing campaigns

6) Study & analyse data to identify consumer behaviour & map trends

1. User Research and analysis - Research and construct new design stories for the top down collections

2. Design exploration & development - Design contributor for key top-down design differentiated collections - INARA, MIA, XYRA, High-Value exhibitions, IVA, Solitaires by Tanishq Visual & graphic design

3. UX research and Design for “Come home to Titan” - a new business idea for Titan company that was selected from a list of 1000 entries to be a part of an ignitor project for incubation.

Select projects
1) COLORNEXT 2012 - ColourNext is an Asian Paints initiative that offers the visual design trends of Tomorrow (http://www.asianpaints.com/colourconnect/colouritup/colour_next.as p x )

2) DESIGN PUBLIC 2 - Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest. These conversations are held in a discussion conclave with a particular focus on India with an interest in other emerging economies and the wider world. (http://designpublic.in/ )

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