Saudi Arabia

Mohamed Elaref

UX Manager & LX Director

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Public Speaking

Negotiation

Accessibility

Design systems

User research

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

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

- Develop and execute a comprehensive digital experience strategy that aligns with MOJ's business objectives, and enhances user satisfaction.

- Lead and mentor cross-functional teams, including UX, Digital Product, and Digital Production, to deliver exceptional digital experiences across MOJ's digital channels.

- Drive the continuous improvement of MOJ's digital channels, including the web portal and mobile app, by identifying opportunities for enhancement and innovation.

- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand user needs, identify pain points, and develop solutions that improve the end-to-end user journey.

- Drive the implementation of best practices in UX design, ensuring intuitive and user-friendly digital experiences that align with industry standards and trends.

- Foster a data-driven culture within the digital experience teams, leveraging analytics and user insights to inform decision-making and drive continuous optimization.

- Leading team of UX designers, researchers, and developers, providing mentorship and guidance to ensure they deliver high-quality work.
            

    
    

    
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- Managing UX teams: Leading and managing a team of UX professionals, including UX designers, researchers, and content strategists, and ensuring that the team is equipped with the necessary skills, resources, and tools to deliver high-quality work.

- Setting UX strategy: Developing and communicating a UX vision and strategy that aligns with business goals and objectives. This involves identifying user needs and pain points and defining the product design direction to meet those needs.

- Collaborating with cross-functional teams: Working closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure that the UX design aligns with business objectives and technical constraints.

- Establishing UX processes: Establishing and optimizing UX design processes and workflows that enable the team to work more efficiently and effectively.

- Conducting UX research: Planning and executing user research studies to gather insights on user needs and behaviors, and using those insights to inform product design decisions.

- Ensuring quality and consistency: Ensuring that the UX design is consistent across products and projects and meets high-quality standards.

- Managing client relationships: Building and maintaining relationships with clients, managing client expectations, and effectively communicating design decisions and recommendations.
            

    
    

    
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- Identify and frame design problems and help the team make an informed decision by understanding user needs and behaviors.

- Effectively plan and perform user research activities with an in-depth understanding of different research methods.

- Analyze, synthesize, and communicate insights from primary and secondary research data points and shape them as research deliverables.

- Co-create, brainstorm, and generate creative ideas using visual concepts and moodboards.

- Design and maintain user journeys to understand important user segments and business needs.

- Effectively defend and communicate design decisions with mapping them to unique users' needs.

- Define information architecture and structure complex information into a hierarchy that makes sense using interaction models, user flow scenarios, and sitemaps.

- Craft pixel-perfect prototypes using design and prototyping tools (such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, etc.)

- Design an end-to-end experience while ensuring consistency of brand guidelines, design guidelines and design system methodology.

- Work with multi-disciplinary team of designers, researchers, product managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
            

    
    

    
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- Leading UX research and analysis: Conducting user research, analyzing user data, and identifying user needs and pain points to inform product development.

- Designing user-centered experiences: Creating wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs that prioritize user needs and enhance the overall user experience.

- Collaborating with cross-functional teams: Working closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure that the UX design aligns with business objectives and technical constraints.

- Conducting usability testing: Planning and executing usability testing to evaluate product designs and identify areas for improvement.

- Mentoring and coaching team members: Providing guidance and mentorship to junior UX designers and promoting a culture of continuous learning and growth.

- Managing client relationships: Building and maintaining relationships with clients, managing client expectations, and effectively communicating design decisions and recommendations.

- Staying up-to-date with industry trends: Staying informed about the latest UX design methodologies, tools, and technologies, and sharing knowledge and best practices with the team.
            

    
    

    
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- Focus on the strategic business aspects of UX challenges.

- Zooms out from the product to the ecosystem of the business.

- Uses UX challenges to identify and solve deeper business problems.

- Helps businesses become more user-centered, agile and digitally mature through UX projects.

- Provides validated, deep, and actionable insights to drive sustainable business decisions.

- Interact with users, gathering data via interviews, surveys, discussions and task analysis which is used to inform the product design.

- Research for the competitors, made a research and create sitemap.

- Create low fidelity wireframe of pages content.

- Create the graphics and UI of the pages.

- Handoff to developers and cooperate with them to build the pages in HTML CSS and make sure the final website matches design.

- Participate in creating wireframes of the app.

- Define the design direction and setup look and feel of the app following brand guidelines.

- Reflect the wireframe into clean usable UI with some modifications.

- Prototype the design and soft test the interactions.

- Create UI guidelines and handoff the design to developers.

- Manage a team of junior UX designers, providing mentoring and training as and when required.

- Manage all forms of requirement gathering, user research and usability testing, ensuring the best methods are selected for each project and client.

- Work in conjunction with a team of product managers to deliver the best possible product for all clients

- Work with the in-house designers and developers to create an effective user experience for our own agency website Represent the agency at key industry events as and when required

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