Germany

UX Research

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Front-end

UX Testing

Full Stack Web & App Development

Ruslan Valikhanov

Senior Product Designer

portfolio

Usability Testing

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Data visualisation

Illustration

User research

Zapier

Adobe Illustrator

Figma

Framer

GitHub

HTML

Jira

Time management

Team player

Organisation skills

Information architecture

Product roadmap

Product strategy

Qualitative research

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

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

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

Breaking into tech

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

Prototyping methods and tips

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

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

Onboarding new users

• Ideating & validating new features
• General UX strategy
• Cross department design alignment
• User research / testing

• Redesigned the software with different teams - core interactions,
  language, UI components  
• Pushed custom study plans project, adjusted sign-up flow and search
  functionality, modified our seasonal campaigns, scaled design team
• Worked on native mobile applications

• Worked in a team of four designers on developing and implementing layout
  for magazines, communication materials and campaign concepts
• Supervised the processes between publishing houses, typography
  departments and clients
• Developed numerous marketing campaigns and brand identity (logos,
  brochures, newsletters, infographics, presentations and advertisements)

• Designed and shipped materials and content for multiple agencies and
  companies such as: Lode, DermaPlus, and MAXIM 
• Started my own design agency

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