India

Nikita Bhaiya

Lead product designer

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

General mentorship

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 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

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

Building an effective team

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

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

Designing SaaS products for APAC and American markets at Ai palette for the CPG industry. Directing and advocating conceptual models based on the current market needs and users’ mental models. Monitoring and analyzing the Quantitative and Qualitative data to mold the products according to the user and market needs. Working with a multi-disciplinary team to gather and analyze data and figure out technical feasibilities for a smoother roll-out of the products. Leading and building the design segment to meet the rising design needs.

Built Desktop, web, and mobile applications as well as responsive websites at Accenture Digital catering to American and European markets for the Fintech and Automation domains taking end-to-end ownership of deliverables. Additionally, designed an exhaustive Data visualization library from scratch consisting of over 100+ graphs for Categorical, Sequential, Likert and Diverging data that would meet the needs of a rich User Interface as well as current Accenture Design systems. Proposed Dark theme graphs and respective components to meet the emerging demand of Theme toggle feature of Market and our products bound to D3 and other technical feasibilities. Mentored other designers on Visual design methodologies and components, graphs, and their usage challenges. UX Research spanned from gathering requirements from stakeholders for their respective SaaS products to Auditing it for both Quantitative and Qualitative data, creating Information architecture, end-user Journeys, personas to testing the final product.

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