United States

Interaction Design

UX Design

Product Design

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.)

Krishna Sistla

Sr. Interaction Designer

Communication

Collaboration

Presentation skills

Leadership

AI/ML

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

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

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

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

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Led the design efforts of an emerging product area to capture all Cloud Customer Capacity requests in one unified place and help the internal teams at Google make sure that customers are not blocked by the capacity shortage. Identify high-impact opportunities and potential constraints within the Google Cloud Platform to deliver products that inform a cross-functional product initiative. Contribute to design systems and inform OKRs needed to improve near and long-term outcomes for GCP and users.

Collaborated closely with Product, Engineering and Field Operations to accelerate product delivery by 14 months. Made robot-vision system calibration workflow accessible to non- expert users and 3x faster for expert users by relying on periodic user research to keep us on the right track. Introduced HEART success metrics to help the cross-functional teams have shared goals and define our success by the success of our end users.

Advocated for user centric design practices with the cross-functional partners and crafted a design process for the entire team can follow. This include Job-to-be-done( JTBD) methodology, collaborative design thinking, creating a design system and using Google tag manager all together to create a data driven design process.

Designed end-to-end experiences of having a home robot by informing design decisions through rapid prototyping and research. Translate those findings into the physical interactions of the robot and the mobile app experience to let users establish trust with the robot and interact with their robot remotely.

Working with the XD team which is an overarching initiative, it has been a great opportunity to step back and look across all the products through a unified lens. Having research and data at the center of our process, I worked on new customer experience to make it uniquely Autodesk. My work during the summer seeded the directions the team would pursue for the next year.

Supported the studio design team to build and test web application for an energy client. Worked on a bootstrap framework to maintain consistent visual language and bring the prototypes to life for the client to interact and understand our solution better. The prototypes were planned to be used as a first step towards implementation.

I was a TA for two classes, IxD-3: Objects and Space Studio at the undergraduate level and Interaction Design Studio at the graduate level. This was a great way for me to look for positives and encourage colleagues to strive harder towards a better solution. It was good to help people build on their already crazy ideas and see them come to life.

Worked on improving the first experience of Autodesk users through a new offering. Involved in the early stage of the project gave me the freedom to lay down the ground work and ask the right questions for the team to explore. Used user research, information architecture, storyboarding and prototyping as essential tools to explore possible solutions.

Involved in designing innovative artworks, installations and experiences that examine our understanding of the social and political dynamics of public space.

Position demanded for Ideation, Conceptualization and Execution of projects. The typical design process involved user study, wire-framing, business considerations, user testing and iterations before successfully delivering the product. 
Was also actively involved in suggesting new measures to improve User Experience of the ever growing user base of the Real estate portal.

Was a great opportunity to learn invaluable inputs in contemporary design from experienced professionals. Involved in meetings with all stakeholders, especially with clients, where soliciting and appreciating their requirements was crucial for the project.Primarily involved in the development of the design concept and 3D Modelling of the projects.

Initialized and conceptualized the business model for the company. Along with playing a pivotal role in Web Designing, I also contribute in the design process of other related projects.Started in 2011, the organization has been successfully running ever since.

I help this organization with their Graphic and Web Design needs.I feel this is a way in which I can contribute to the society, however minute the contribution is.

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