Australia

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Front-end

Bachelor

Class 12

Class 8

Kijan Maharjan

Product Owner (Design Improvements)

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

WordPress

Adobe Photoshop

Airtable

Asana

Balsamiq

Bubble

Canva

ChatGPT

Crazy Egg

Figma

GitHub

Hotjar

JavaScript

Jira

Miro

Confluence

GitLab

Google Analytics

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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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

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

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

- Developing / visualizing consumer-facing innovations for the Digital Businesses
(products/experiences/services) that constantly improve the customer experience of the product
- Thinking creatively to produce new ideas and concepts using innovation to redefine a design brief
within the constraints of cost and time
- Tracking the latest consumer trends, ideas and concepts across industries as a key input to the
innovations that company is developing.
- Serve as key coordinator to bring external ideas into the business – through tracking, prioritizing and
escalating new ideas to the business.
- Conduct workshop with CEO and clients through out the system to be crystal clear about the problem
and frame the vision of the problem by visual design for the right outcomes
- Facilitate internal workshops, sessions, meetings to elevate/teach innovation processes, culture
and tools.
- Lead the continued development, refinement of core innovation practices, processes and tools
- Collaborate with developers to define and implement the solutions for the product roadmap, product direction, visuals and experiences
- Ensuring that all the projects and features are completed, delivered on-time, within the scope
- Develop, Instruct and implement Dev-ops and frontend technology flows among the developers to
improve in project delivery process.
- Design of user experience architectures, workflows, information hierarchies, and highly scalable UI
frameworks used for design and development
- Able to synthesize concepts into actionable and profitable designs

Introduction to HCI
Evaluation Techniques
Measuring User experience
Usability Evaluation
Task analysis
Inclusive Design
Design Approaches
Web usable
Responsive design

Thingsle provides a checklist of what things to do, what things are done, recommended places/restaurants/hotels nearby the particular activity provides the context for people to get easy information, details, destination, routes, environments and let's user to make easy decision depending on the user's review.

The key feature of app to provide suggestions of what is interesting to see and to do, depending on the time, weather and location. Users can get the best vacation ideas for the weekend or monthly adventure or luxury trips. Users can also ask questions about any place and get answers from people who have already been to that place.

- UX design for the product admin showing user data.
- Collaborate with Startup Strategist, designer, back-end developer to build the admin panel.
- Build frontend of admin panel using Angular JS with different libraries such as chartjs and datatables. 
- Pitch the possible ideas to store the possible data.

InternApply is committed to providing a tailored end to end service to its clients resulting in mutually beneficial outcomes without compromising our professional and ethical standards. We build partnerships with our candidates and clients to ensure we understand each parties goals and deadlines.

As a product manager:
- Drive the product vision, manage timelines and roadmap for our cloud-based UX analytics product in pursuit of product excellence.
- Define product feature requirements that meet specific goals and target metrics
- Collaborate daily with the Development team to ensure projects are clearly defined and properly phased to facilitate timely delivery of functionality
- Manage resolution of urgent technical issues while communicating changes to business stakeholders
- Launch new products by collaborating with design and product marketing on go-to-market and lifecycle marketing strategies
- Track and report on key metrics (e.g. adoption, conversion)
- Work with the executive management team to ensure they are fully engaged in product launch decisions
- Identify market needs, customers, and competitors and transform those into succinct product enhancements to determine the right product features and benefits for the company
- Work with other CEO, COO and other product leaders, User-Experience and Development teams to drive deep understanding of customers need and research needs taking product initiatives from concept through launch
- Recruit employees; assign, direct, and evaluate their work; and oversee the development and maintenance of staff competence

As a Design and Frontend lead:
- Develop UX/UI, brand, marketing & growth strategy
- Frontend System design & architecture.
- Collaborate with top-level managers, backend developers and lead the frontend team to fast-paced development.
- Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.
- Analyze technology, resource needs, to plan and assess the feasibility of project.
- Direct, review, and approve product design and changes.
- Brand, UX & UI Design + Front-end Development with REST API
- Refine overall graphic design & product presentation for investors, fundings and VC's

- Collaborate with Founder and senior developer to development robust frontend solution and customer facing platform.- Coordinate and direct projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.- Direct, review, and approve product decisions keeping end users in focus.- Develop Brand, UX & UI Design + Front-end Development and architecture.

Lead, mentor and manage our team of designers and developers while maintaining a hands on approach to development projects.
Understanding and applying fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Work with comprehensive back-end API support
Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code to build customer-facing UIs
Take ownership of large scale digital projects
Be a key player in the development of strategies, goals and objectives towards the service delivered internally and externally.
Participate in design and code reviews, develop, debug source code and unit tests

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