India

UX Design

Interaction Design

UX Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

higher secondary

Ruwaiz Razak

Senior User Experience Designer

Linkedin

Quantitative research

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Analytical skills

Design systems

Information architecture

Unity

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

Time management

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

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

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

- Features ownership and timely delivery.
- Helped set up UX deliverables at each production stage(1, 1.25 and 1.5 pagers). Standardised flow diagrams and wireframes.
- Setup process to breakdown feature costing and track the progress, giving better visibility for Manager and Producer.

- Working in features Brainstorming, Competitive Analysis, Paper and digital prototyping, Interaction design, Internal testing across functions and unity prefab Implementation.

- Streamlining and implementing UX process as part of the product development pipeline.

- Working with PMs and Game Designers at the earliest stage of feature creation.

- Delivering high fidelity prototypes with detailed player’s journey and edge cases.

- Heuristics Evaluation for existing systems and Revamp

- Analyses data to infer on how the existing features went in and identifying opportunities for improvement .

- Feature documentation and analysis post-release to highlight what went wrong and the next steps

Worked on 4 titles from Glu Hyderabad Studio. 

- As the only UX Designer in the studio, Identifying pain points and user needs by working closely with user experience researchers and Data Analysts along with crafting experience through rapid iterating with the game design team, product team and engineering team.

- Designed bold beat features, event systems, in-game store optimisations, and user on-boarding.

-Conducted funnel analysis on user on-boarding by exploring datasets and designed solution to reduce churn rates at the earlier stages of the game which resulted in better retention.

- Conducted Qualitative and Quantitative researches to ensure a better experience for users.

- Worked on developing User flows, use cases, case studies, prototypes defining VFX and SFX for features.

- Designed background tools that would help to optimize game designers to create events easily.

As a fellow my role was to support startups in the area of User Experience Design.
Provided usability consulting for multiple companies within the ecosystem.

- Involved in designing an experience strategy.
- Conducted User studies, User Surveys and generated Personas.
- Crafted information architecture using multiple methods including card sorting
- Collaborated with backend developer to understand the information that we required for developing each feature and optimizing the server load.
- Created wireframes and mockups for the product.

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