United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Nishant Panchal

Staff Product Designer

AI/ML

Figma

Framer

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Midjourney

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

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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Fieldguide is transforming CPA firms with our purpose-built advisory services platform, boosting efficiency, margins, client satisfaction, and unlocking new revenue streams.

Currently leading design for Commerce Setup and Integrations for Salesforce Commerce Platform.  
Involved in R&D projects to redefine AI design tools in Enterprise space to improve buyer personalization.

Currently leading design efforts for Search and Checkout experiences for B2B Commerce. 
Involved in R&D projects to redefine AI design tools in Enterprise space to improve buyer personalization.

Worked with the Salesforce infrastructure team to design tools that help detect, investigate, and resolve infrastructure incidents before they become customer impacting. Tools designed: 
- Refocus (Visualization tool to detect issues in real-time)
- Change Traffic Control- Service tool to streamline and automate the process for implementing changes within the infrastructure.

Jiang China Human-Centered Design Challenge (JCD) is an annual two-week design challenge for Chinese college students across disciplines. We empower them with the toolkit and mindset of human-centered design, so they can apply what they learn to create innovative solutions to social challenges within their communities. 

- Worked with professors and design professionals to teach 36 Chinese students about human-centered design during the two-week boot camp
- Guided students through the entire design process, including user research, ideation, prototyping and iteration
- Collaborate with peer mentors and staff to create key components of the boot camp, such as leading skills workshop

→ BrowserStack is a cross-browser testing tool and is one of the fastest growing startups in India. My role as “Selenium Specialist” included:
          • Writing Selenium tests for complex websites in a wide bandwagon of programming              languages including Ruby, Java, C#, Node.js, Python, etc. This included interacting with              clients and developing Selenium scripts for their production/staging websites.
          • I learned various Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD)             based frameworks like Cucumber, Capybara, Protractor, Galen, etc. to help users run              Selenium as well as JavaScript tests on BrowserStack.
          • Performed usability testing for new features implemented on BrowserStack’s website.

→ One of the most striking experiences at BrowserStack was when it went through a security breach in November, 2014. It was the time when entire team came together as single unit and worked for around 15 hours each day of the week to overcome the situation. This experience really consolidated my abilities to work in teams and transformed my personality into believing that there is always a solution to each problem. This attitude will help me combat challenges in academics as well as in my professional career.

→ WeChat is a cross-platform instant messaging service developed by Tencent in China. I interned as  a 'Product Designer' at Tencent India in Mumbai. 
          • Involved in user research activities for the existing and newly launched features in the              WeChat mobile application. 
          • Performed usability testing for new features that were in beta phase and generated reports              with analysis and improvement proposals.
          • Involved in brainstorming sessions that were mainly focused on analyzing the insights              gathered via previous user studies. This helped the team understand how a user interacts                with the new feature. 
          • Created journey maps for each stakeholder of the product.

→ The challenges I faced at this internship included coming up with concrete design decisions based on user interviews and developing quick and dirty prototypes to test them. However, this internship played a critical role in shaping my interest and skills in the field of UX.

→ I was a part of the “Smart Mobility” Project at Atos. Following were the tasks I performed while on the internship:
          • Gave me an opportunity to perform research based on how transitions and animations affect             the usability of a product. 
          • Developed an Android application that used Google Maps API and included the feature to             retrieve information of all the gas stations in proximity. The user can then check and share             reviews for the gas station.

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