Sri Lanka

Graphic Design

UX Design

Industrial Design

Branding and Identity Design

Product Design

Front-end

mohan ranasinghe

Tech Lead - User Experience/User Interface

Problem-solving

Team player

Leadership

Human computer interaction

Adobe XD

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

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

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

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management 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

As a lead product designer at Informatics International , some of my responsibilities include:

• Leading the design team and managing the design process from concept to launch
• Work closely with cross-functional teams such as Engineering, Production, and Senior Management to provide guidance during development phase
• Work in close collaboration with software engineers and product managers in the framework of an agile software development process
•Effective communicating through workflows, stories, and wireframes to guide a team's work
• Creating and maintaining design systems and style guides
• Conducting user research and testing to inform design decisions
• Developing high-quality visual designs, including wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready assets
• Ensuring that the product is intuitive and easy to use for our users
• Staying up to date with design trends and industry best practices
• Development and technology planning and implementation – provides guidance in best practice and tool use in the design and build of technical frameworks and the applications built on them and own and implement complex area of the UI systems

Working as Lead UI/UX Engineer for the main product and projects focus is on all aspects of product management including, useability, function, marketing, branding, and designing. 

Build a Cross-Platform Design system with battle-tested components, thorough documentation, and a frictionless developer experience.

Analyzing, understand, and solving functional problems for users by designing user-friendly and intuitive experiences.

Translating business requirements, customer needs, and technology constraints into simple user-centric design solutions.

Defining feature requirements into user stories, wireframes, user flows, mockups and acceptance criteria to efficiently communicate the intended design direction for the web.

Designed a user-centered B2B Insurance agents platform that enables insurers to tap into new markets, and extend services to intermediaries such as agents, brokers & policyholders.

Achieved a huge 30% Task Success Rate from the usability tests.

Lead Company UX department, I was heavily involved in the design team’s operations. I helped redesign of new and existing products.
As an award-winning E-Solution recognized by Global 100, I have extensive experience in designing large-scale products, starting from the initial sketches through to final implementation. 

Conducting UX research and creating user flows, wireframes, UI mock-ups, prototypes and supporting engineers throughout the development process.

Establishing design guidelines and best practices and standards throughout the company and the brand.

Redesigned the fully integrated comprehensive Event and Ticketing Software Platform to perform well with a 25% of increasing conversion rate. (www.optimoevents.com)

Designed a whole new B2C experience within 6 months to a target audience of 40% from the market.

Designed new Android & iOS mobile apps (bubltown.co.uk)

Worked with an incredibly talented team of engineers and designers, designed the hotels, cruise, and flight Travel complete booking lifecycle management Platform (TravelBox™).

We were driven through the User testing and research-based workflow. Every project flow through the project workflow that includes gathering client requirements, Wireframing, user testing before we jump into the actual product.

Providing creative direction for the overall User experience, Visuals, and client products.

Ensuring that design development and creative projects are delivered on time

Establishing design processes and practices for the Product Design Team.



Few precious brands/projects I directly worked with past 6.5 years

Royal Caribbean Cruisê
FDM Travel
FlyDubai Holiday
Travel Box
Arabian Adventure
Clipper Vacations

roomsnet.com is the leading Online Travel Community which gives millions of online travel bookers worldwide, an opportunity to save money on their hotel reservations through our uniquely designed loyalty program.

Responsible for Designing Web sites & Web Application,  UI design for non web software applications.

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