India

UX Design

Service Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Dayanada Sagar College of Engineering (VTU)

Rishi Tak

Sr Product Designer

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Adobe Illustrator

Figma

Adobe After Effects

Collaboration

Organisation skills

Leadership

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 successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

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

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

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 to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Currently leading the design of shopping funnel and payments at Flipkart. Strong experience in building 0 to 1 products & improving the experience of live projects through enhanced user engagement and conversion rates. 

Helped launch critical products like RTO, Insurance and Loan for 2W category. 

Expert in designing for product selling through improved decision making in E-commerce space

Complete ownership of payments and Fintech projects

The internship project was titled as "designing for rural innovation", responsibilities included designing a communication interface for IoT solutions to be installed in the village as well as for rural communication with limited network availability over a decentralized network for the local context. 

We also researched and identified various possible design interventions that could be taken forward for a specific village under study.

web design and development, graphic design

user research, Feature analysis, usability testing, logo design, illustration design.

Rishi Tak🇮🇳