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UX Design

Graphic Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Generalist Product Management

UX Research

Workshopper Master

Course

Immersion

Pad Course

Integrated Digital Markting

Petr Smidrkal

UX team lead

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Content strategy

Figma

Mural

User research

Usability Testing

Product strategy

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

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

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

Building an effective team

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

Hiring software engineers

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

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

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

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

I was a part of the team responsible for kicking off a new project to develop an internal article editor.
I was responsible for the initial discovery phase when we conducted various stakeholder and user interviews to gather insights. 
I also collected data from various analytic tools and evaluated them to gain more in depth knowledge about the users' behaviour.

During my short time in Bogota, Colombia I opened this creative co-working space to have a place to conduct my freelancing design project and to meet other creative freelancers for networking.

I was responsible for the online presence of the space, for the marketing materials as well as for the designing and coding our website.

As a freelance UX/UI designer, I collaborated on different projects with teams from EU and US. The work was done mostly remotely and I took part in the whole design process from collecting the data, through creating solutions to the users' problems to designing and testing the final product.

When necessary I also helped with developing the simple code to make a prototype, or a landing page.

The projects varied from social networking applications, booking websites to VR technology provider.

I took this little start-up from the ground to the successful business. I was responsible for online presentation and for user research and identifying our users' needs.

We shifted from B2C to B2B to react to the market changes and competition, based on the in depth stakeholders interviews and user testing we developed a web application to help us with managing and booking our services.

At the end of our journey we capitalised the technology and moved to different projects.

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