India

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Service Design

Product Design

Business Development

Interaction Design

UX Research

M.Des

Bachelor of Architecture - BArch

Rhiddhit Paul

Senior UX Designer

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Brand strategy

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Information architecture

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Autocad

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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

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 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

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

Being the only designer

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

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

As a mentor on ADPList I voluntarily provide guidance to designers in the industry regarding growing their careers

ADPList Super Mentor (Design) June 2023 Top 1% Recognition

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Using design to catapult businesses towards a new era of product and service magnificence. As a Senior UX Designer, my role is to work directly with the client to understand the user, business and product goals, and architect an elegant solution that elevates all three. At the same time, I try to mentor up and coming UX and UI designers at Yellowchalk in areas of user research, design and client interactions.

As a peer with SoulUp, I am open to having conversation with anyone who may benefit from my Lived Experiences as someone with ADHD, across career and learning challenges.

While at Microsoft, I worked in the Microsoft Teams team, where my graduation project focused on designing an experience for neurodiverse users of Microsoft Teams, with the goal of reducing digital fatigue for everyone. I conducted primary and secondary research with members of the Neurodiverse community, and as part of the solutioning, designed wireframes and prototypes for both the desktop as well as mobile experience.

During this time I also participated in the Microsoft Global Hackathon, 'FHL' 2022 and 2023, where I worked with project managers, designers and developers from around the world on three hackathon projects.

Bees & Ants is a new startup in the regenerative farming sector. They came looking for a fresh digital identity and online presence that would tell the story of their brand to customers as well as potential investors. I worked with them to not only design and develop the website, but also do it in a manner that conveyed their core message effectively. As the solo designer and content specialist, I not only worked on the UX/UI of the website, but also developed illustrations, wrote the content and informed them about a content strategy that would help attract users to the website. This was a 3 month contract.

This was a 3-month collaboration between Tata Digital and NID in my 4th semester of my Masters degree in Information Design, where I, in a team of 4, mentored by User Researchers from Tata Digital helped re-imagine the future of an omnichannel retail experience. Our brief was to imagine a physical retail space with no physical inventory. We explored areas such as AR/VR, and digitalization of physical assets.

As a design consultant at Miracle Fertility Clinic, I worked in tandem with an external web development and marketing agency hired by the clinic, to design the website for the clinic. I had previously worked with clinic for their logo design.

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