Belgium

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

UX Research

Bachelor's degree

Course

Associate's degree

Ramzi Salem

Head of Product Design

Usability Testing

Product analytics

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Leadership

Design systems

User research

React

Figma

GitHub

Adobe Creative Suite

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Building a web application used for creating a resume and generating a portfolio using GitHub API, Started by the user stories, data model, wireframes, UI design then coding the app using ReactJS, NodeJS, MongoDB as a database, CirecleCi to ensure the CI/CD and ending by deploying the server-side on Heroku and the client-side on Firebase.

Giving weekly UX/UI design courses to E-business students of the bachelor's degree. The aim of the course is to redesign a current website by going through all the steps of the UX and the UI design.

- Creating eye-catching layouts for effective branding
- Working independently on a variety of project simultaneously
- Designs and leads creative assets across all mediums, including social, interactive, OOH, print, events, experiential, etc.
- Translating brand objectives into designs that are clear, consistent, engaging and culturally relevant
- Driving the creative process by presenting well-developed creative solutions that approach the problem differently and delivery a strong brand identity
- Overseeing all design projects, from conception to delivery

Working to design and coding newsletters and email campaigns using MailChimp.

- Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how site function & look like.
- Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.
- Analyzing data and targeting audience behaviors to improve UX.
- Giving the life to the UI designs by writing a clean JavaScript, HTML & CSS code.

- Planning and management of product vision from a high level as well as execution of designs at a detailed level to clean structured code.
- Involvement of all stages of the design & development process including creation of design concepts, devising and conducting experiments, and delivering applications.
- Produce user requirements specifications, including personas, scenarios, task analysis, flowcharts, and organization and navigation models.
- Specify user interfaces & information architecture using participatory & iterative design techniques that result in interaction design, wireframes, prototypes, & design specifications.
- Translate UI/UX design wireframes to actual code.

1- Design and Prepare a questionnaire which is targeting the Syrian people who have an idea to start their own business and who have a business already. 

2- Estimate and understand the financial needs and materials for the targeted people.

3- Participate in different entrepreneurship workshops to meet different people and fill out the surveys.  In addition to the fieldwork and traveling to different cites In Turkey during the work.

Working at all stages of the product lifecycle from requirements capture, through design & implementation to development, system testing, debugging, integration & deployment.

Mariam Nabil

UI/ UX Designer

Mo Albaly

Product Designer

Valentino Doria

Business Analyst

Abdelrahman Elziady

UI UX Designer

Fanny Hamayon

UX/ Service Designer

Elis Shevchenko

Product UX Designer

1:1 chat

In these weekly sessions, immerse yourself in hands-on learning with Figma as we explore the 5 fundamentals of visual design. Discover the art of spacing, understand the logic behind visual hierarchy, explore typography essentials, and harness Figma's powerful features like auto layout. Finally, bring your ideas to life with quick and impressive prototypes. This practical experience will equip you with the skills to design visually captivating and user-friendly interfaces.

Figma 101

In these mentorship, we'll review your existing portfolio and provide constructive feedback for improvement. You'll receive guidance on enhancing visual appeal, organizing content, and targeting specific audiences. Revamp your portfolio to make a lasting impression and increase your chances of landing dream projects or job opportunities.

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