United States

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Front-end

Interaction Design

UX Research

Pratt Institute

University of Delhi

Naman Sehgal

Product Designer

Portfolio

Usability Testing

Prototyping

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Leadership

Design systems

User research

Product roadmap

React

WordPress

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Airtable

ChatGPT

Figma

HTML

InVision

JavaScript

Adobe Creative Suite

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

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

Launching new products or features

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 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

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

1. Worked client-side for Charter Communication Inc. (Spectrum Mobile) to transform their business needs into advanced and accessible solutions.

2. Wireframed, prototyped, and developed responsive UI components for Spectrum Mobile’s consumer-facing website; increasing the overall order conversion and success rate by 34%.

3. Collaborated with UX engineers, product owners, and other business stakeholders to drive user experience decisions.

4. Responsible for laying down the SASS and styling standards for the front-end codebase and making sure those standards are met.

1. Led a small UX team to help define the future of ad-tech products at Red Spark. 

2. Drove product innovation to deliver engaging experiences for the users of RTX Platform and Leadnomics Edge; products for performance marketers.

3. Conducted research and identified problems through stakeholder talks and user interviews in the complex industry of ad tech.

4. Conceptualized and prototyped core product features backed by deep user research insights.

1. Underwent web development training with JavaScript and React as the core technologies. 

2. Worked as a web developer to design, and develop a cloud-based document management system (PaaS) using HTML5, SASS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Express, React 16, and Webpack.

3. Conducted in-depth user research and hosted a co-design workshop with managers, and engineers.

4. As the only designer in the team, independently designed and prototyped the onboarding process and the dashboard of the platform.

1. Designed and prototyped the Milestone Presence Cloud - A solution where 8 different products were combined into 1 cohesive, cloud-based platform.

2. Worked closely with product managers, geographically spread engineers, and stakeholders to incorporate user needs throughout the development of Presence Cloud.

3. Analyzed user heat maps and made changes in the existing client websites developed on Milestone’s Content Management System, increasing the overall user sessions by 5%.

1. Translated client’s business goals and user requirements into fully functional and usable front-end design solutions.

2. Participated in the iteration of features and user flow discussions with the stakeholders.

3. Injected user-experience design into dozens of client websites, leading to an increase in overall web traffic by 128%.

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