United Kingdom

Service Design

UX Research

Service Design Research

B-Tech

Prama Ayalasomayajula

Senior UX Researcher

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Critical-thinking

Stakeholder management

Human computer interaction

User research

Optimal Workshop

UserTesting

Figma

Miro

UserZoom

Mural

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

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

Presenting your work with impact

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Affinity

Adobe After Effects

Ahref

Airflow

Airtable

Amplitude

Apache Spark

Asana

Autocad

Axure

Balsamiq

BigML

Blender

Bravo

BrightHire

Bubble

Buffer

Bullhorn

Canva

ChatGPT

Carrd

CircleCI

Compa

Confluence

Crazy Egg

D3.js

Databricks

Datapeople

Docker

Facebook Ads

Framer

GitHub

GitLab

Glassdoor

Glide

Golang (Go)

Google Analytics

Google Ads

Google Data Studio

Grayscale

Greenhouse

Hotjar

HTML

HubSpot

IBM SPSS

Instagram Ads

Intercom

InVision

Java

JavaScript

Jenkins

Jira

JOIN

Julia

Jupyter Notebook

Keras

LinkedIn Ads

Lookback

Senior UX Researcher responsible for growth and personalisation of Shops Ads (A Social commerce product with impact across Facebook and Instagram)

Wrote stories on sustainable living and reported on several events happening in Bangalore in relations to Green and sustainable lifestyle.

My work included Content Development for Newsletters, Website etc, Digital Media Marketing for various programs. Provided Support for Microsoft Youthspark Program through content creation, event management, public relations. Worked towards online fund raising for various projects.

Worked on Digital Marketing, Designing Pitches and low cost productions for the project SKYHUB.

Reporting positive changes in the society. Promoting social causes of the smallest level.

My work involved teaching children in the age group of 5-11, level-1 English. I taught children from Children Home Orphanage located in Injambakkam, Chennai.

Worked on making a biological model of Indian Ocean using ROMS

Working on a problem in vertical mixing in the central Bay of Bengal region.

Prama Ayalasomayajula🇬🇧