Thailand

Prakhar (PJ) Joshi

Senior Product Designer

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

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

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

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

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

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

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

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

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

Successfully helped 5 individuals to achieve their specific goal within fix timeline.

- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions combining business, customer and users needs.
- Conveying solutions and techniques for making product scalable, integrating growth and marketing strategies.
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new functions and features.
- Facilitate the company/product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products and experience.
- Collaborate with the rest of the Design team as well as the Engineering, Product Management team, marketing team, stakeholders.
- Coming up with a good UX with an aesthetically pleasing UI which is functional, usable and has a powerful emotional design.
- Be a fun storyteller to carry forward the agenda of good and sustainable design.
- Identify the future problem and act and implement the solution according to the context of the situation,
- Proposing impact of design, Planning KPI and Sucess metrics and adjust the design process acc to different methodologies.
- Volunteer to assist in other areas of the company operations.
- Asking reliable questions, exploring possibilities, spark curiosity and Making experience within the team more smooth, friendly and fun.
- At the end of the day keep evolving like Goku xD.

We are a real-state and housing company that provides affordable co-living homes. We aim to make people more humane by building a vibrant, diverse, and accepting community while solving real state, renting, and housing problems, especially for students.

Started out during early covid times when I came back to India. The main purpose was to help our ZOI community members with safe and affordable living. The rest was least expected.

- Execute human interaction design for web, mobile web, and native app technologies
- Create solutions to challenges unearthed through research and QA
- Simplify complex workflows ad interaction design
- Collaborate with the rest of the Design team as well as the Engineering and Product Management teams
- Design wireframes, flowcharts, prototypes, etc
- Defining and refining the problem by having sessions
- Creating a fun and joyful environment

- User stories & user personas
- Design System
- Interactions and prototyping
- Adapt the results of the analyzes to improve a better experience
- User-centered design
- Presentations
- Talk with stakeholders
- Give solutions for business
- A/B testing
- Process improvement
- Work and collaborate with developers, managers and stakeholders
- Defining and refining the problem by having sessions
- Creating a fun and joyful environment

- Raised more than £80000 on Kickstarter with the help of designs and marketing strategy
- Provided company better brand values and a strong visual expression
- Solved the problem of brand communication on social media by building up a better core messaging framework and storytelling framework

- Creating a brand value on social media and solving business needs through design and marketing strategies
- Through the help of better graphics, we were able to sell more books
- Design the merchandise for subscribers and followers
- Successfully launched a podcast series and reached a target of 10K Subscribers
- Assisted team members on better execution of events through design thinking

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