India

UX Design

Product Design

Customer Success Management

Interaction Design

UX Testing

UX Research

UX Engineering

Content Strategy

Certified Usability Analyst

MSc( pursuing )

Human Computer Interaction(HCI) programme

Ram Shetty

Design Leader / Ux researcher

Usability Testing

Quantitative research

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Data visualisation

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

User research

UserTesting

Axure

Figma

Miro

UserZoom

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

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management 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

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

Launching new products or features

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

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

Leveraging Product Analytics

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

Creating a product vision

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

Working with engineers

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

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Establishing Ux Strategy, Leading the team & taking care of multiple UX assignments and streamlining the UX process.
•	Ux Consulting, researching, analyzing project requirements, conceptualizing user experience designs, and collaborating with product owners, other UX designers, business analysts, and other stakeholders about functional requirements and customer needs.
•	Initiated and actively ensured corporate consistency in products for engineering, process, and marine industries.
•	Providing research and Ixd deliverables, reviewing the accompanying high-fidelity mockups and annotating those appropriately.
•	Working with scrum teams to provide interaction design deliverables, such as personas, task workflows, and Balsamiq wireframes that communicate design ideas.
•	Managing team both as a lead and functional manager
•	Assisting team members in developing interaction patterns and standards
•	Creating and refining processes for incorporating UX into an enterprise scrum environment
•	Coordinating with multi-regional development centers on implementation issues relating to user experience.
•	Participating in product usability testing, analyzing data, and advising product owners on priority usability issues to be addressed.
•	Championing user experience and helping to implement cultural change toward user-centered design and development within Intergraph PPM
•	Developing and documenting guidelines for interaction design and patterns as on when required.

As a mentor, I’ve been instrumental in mentoring the team to scale up their skills and identify opportunities to achieve the same. I mentored the internal team, extended my contribution to outside the UX community, and was recognized as one of the top 1% of mentors globally at the adplist.org platform. Currently mentoring around 88+ mentees across 12 countries.

•	Initiated and involved actively in ensuring corporate consistency in products for engineering, process, and marine industries.
•	Providing research and Ixd deliverables, as well as reviewing the accompanying high-fidelity mockups and annotating those appropriately.
•	Working with scrum teams to provide interaction design deliverables, such as personas, task workflows, and Balsamiq wireframes that communicate design ideas.
•	Managing team both as a lead and functional manager
•	Assisting team members in developing interaction patterns and standards
•	Creating and refining processes for incorporating UX into an enterprise scrum environment
•	Coordinating with multi-regional development centers on implementation issues relating to user experience.
•	Participating in product usability testing, analyzing data, and advising product owners on priority usability issues to be addressed.
•	Championing user experience and helping to implement cultural change toward user-centered design and development within Intergraph PPM.
•	Working with product teams on specialized consulting projects and performing heuristic evaluations, as needed.
•	Developing and documenting guidelines for interaction design and patterns.

As part of my responsibilities, I was in to research and design in simplifying and improving the overall End-to-End Management and Consumability of Virtualization on Power Systems at IBM – India Software Labs division based out of Hyderabad.    
Expertise 
Leading UX assignments, User Research, User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Usability Testing & Analysis, Prototyping (Axure RP Pro, MS Visio) & Wireframing.
•	Designed and prototyped user interface (UI) for IBM Systems and Technology Group’s Power Management Console (PMC) Templates Library. Contributed to streamlining of other aspects of PMC UI. Validated coded UI’s adherence to design spec.
•	Conducted Usability Evaluation sessions, Design partnership Councils and PowerVM Client Council monthly meetings.
•	Identified fragmented toolset, Difficult to use, multiple context shifts & Gaps in functionality.
•	Created multiple solutions to a single design problem and iterated to a final design. 
•	Driven optimal experiences, measured in terms of usability, intuitiveness, consistency, time to market, and ultimately, business success metrics. 
•	Created the UI/UX and interaction design (IxD) specs as needed through the creation of user experience briefs, site maps, concept diagrams, user scenarios, user-flows, wireframes, visual comps, and both rapid lo-fi and detailed high-fidelity interactive prototypes.
•	Developed and maintained detailed visual and user-interface specifications and design patterns. 
•	Analyzed customer-related research to better inform user stories, priorities and solutions. 
•	Advocated industry standards and user-centric design principals and champion innovative techniques. and solutions
•	Provided recommendations for ongoing product strategy based on qualitative and quantitative data. 
•	Coordinated or executed user research efforts, e.g., interviews, usability testing, and surveys, as needed.

As part of his responsibilities taken up Ux assignments with various clients at Zensar Technologies based out of       Hyderabad.
  Expertise 
Leading UX assignments, Ux research (limited in scope) Accessibility, Observations, Interviews, Prototyping (PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, MS Visio), User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, & Wireframing
•	I've Led User experience projects, managing a team of four.
•	I was translating end-user, business and technical requirements into design deliverables, applying standards and best practices for interaction, content and visual design.
•	I've Participated in Ux research assignments and instrumental in applying the Accessibility standards
•	Translated end user, business and technical requirements into design deliverables, applying standards 
•	Involved in presales.
•	Provided training and mentoring for User Experience design Team members and appropriate business partners
•	Major Clients worked with:
      AT &T, Logitech, Laura Ashley, Activision, Cancer Research-UK and Los Angeles County Metropolitan    Transportation Authority (Metro).

As part of his responsibilities with various clients at Satyam Computer Services Ltd. – a leading consulting and information technology services company based Hyderabad (India).
Expertise 
Presales, Wireframes, Use Cases, Task Flow Analysis and Process Re-engineering recommendations, Usability Research, Usability Testing & Analysis, Heuristic Analysis/ Expert Reviews of applications and subsequent Re-design recommendations.
•	User research, defining user personas.
•	Information Architecture
•	Mentored and supervised junior designers. 
•	Building wire frames for new business opportunities. 
•	Involved as a Solutions Architect for user experience proposals.
•	Client facing & coordinating with offshore team. 
•	Conducted customer interviews for user experience.  
•	Defined user workflows. 
•	Presented design ideas. 
•	Implementing UCD principles.
•	Produced detailed user interface specifications. 
Major Clients worked with – Citi bank, Avago, State Bank of India, MSIG, FETAC, Qatar telecommunications, British Petroleum  and Glaxosmithkline

Responsible for making user friendly screens, Involved in the initial stages of initiation, scheduling through the stages of development & testing, implementation and client interaction. 

Structuring & customizing information/ material for efficient delivery of the assignments. 

Designing and deciding the look and feel of the product/ site, and interaction design. 

Taking up Usability studies and conducting usability tests.


Monitoring, mentoring & motivating the team to ensure timely completion of individual & team assignments

Ram Shetty🇮🇳

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