India

Salmabi Kutty

Senior Product designer

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

General mentorship

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

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

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 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

Simplifying complex experiences for Vmware operations management products delivering continuous performance optimisation, efficient capacity management, proactive planning, providing intelligent remediation and integrated compliance, on-premises and SaaS solutions

Developing, driving and maintaining internal UX standard for Volvo Group IT deliveries.

Securing highest quality and best UX practices through sharing and spreading knowledge (seminars/training) with other IT professionals (developers, architects, business analysts, etc.)

Acting as a coach for other UX/Business Analysts involved on the IT delivery side to secure their proper understanding and implementation of organizational expectation in the UX area.

Supporting IT deliveries through performing and establishing best practices for End User Studies, Prototyping, End User Evaluation (usability testing) and Interaction Design – all in multi-brand context of Volvo Group IT deliveries with respect to high level digital brand governance, directives, policies and guideline.

Performing research activities to incorporate best external UX practices to Volvo Group.

Raising awareness and importance of user-centered design for Volvo Group IT deliveries.

Team collaboration and transparency: My big goals was to increase collaboration and communication between the design, development, and business leadership teams. Implemented master design, reviewed, created best practices documentation checklist, encouraged the team to test with prototype and insisted whiteboard usage while talking through problems. 

Planning: I also spent a lot of time managing product and team intricacies. I helped manage the design team’s workflow and timelines, and assisted with planning small and large product improvements and releases. 

Product Strategy & User Research: I aimed to keep the team focused on the end user’s research, competitive analysis, creating persona and facilitating usability testing 

UX Design:  I partnered with various designers to work through the early stages of a design and feature definition into information architecture, sketching and prototyping, copy-writing, testing and iterating.

Clients:  Garuda Maruti, Advaith Hyundai, Coromandel Harley Davidson, Ashwa TVS, Volkswagon Bangalore ..etc

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