India

UX Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

Executive programme

Bachelor's degree

Pavan Kusuma

Senior Designer

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Figma

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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

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

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Worked at Microsoft Bangalore as an independent designer. My work is to create better experiences for Microsoft partners.

• Following the UX lean design process, I get to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Extended the experience of partner platform to mobile to help users to take quick actions on business proposals while on the go.
• Increased user confidence with the help of consistent pattern usage. Making sure designs are cohesive and accessible is prime.
• From brainstorming to designing end to end, I created experience for unified reporting dashboard where big partners get to know how their business is performing.
            

    
    

    
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• My work here is to curate experiences for content creators in media domain.
• Core member of Element Design System
• Created IA, interactions+visuals for a seamless advertisement platform with great product line.
• Served more than 15+ projects for evaluating user experiences and suggest quick UX/UI improvements.
• Worked on designs for big-data based solution.

• Creating interaction + visual designs as a part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Shadowed UX architect for UX brainstorming sessions with client.
• Desiged IA, interaction & visual designs for website to organise and facilitate collaborative content creation for multinational and largest networking company in the world.
• Worked on Google Glass solution experience and created MVP to pitch to businesses.

Pavan Kusuma🇮🇳