Canada

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Industrial Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

Sanjiv Sirpal

Near-Futurist & Designer

Leadership

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

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 ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

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

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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

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 conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

Enteligent believes the world would be a better place if we meet our energy needs where we generate it. We care about making the most efficient & effective use of the finite solar energy you capture. The Future Demands we're smarter with energy.

As Head of Design, I was responsible for all design functions and oversaw contract industrial design. 

As a hands-on contributor, I was responsible for:

* Rebranding Enteligent
* Building out the web presence on Shopify   
* Creating the industrial design language and shaping the ID vision
* Creating the vision for the Elements, the device management system
* Designing the Elements Technician Application, while working with SW dev to implement

Unfortunately, I was part of the December 2024 reduction in force, as Enteligent was facing a change in market conditions and had to adjust its PNL.

Shopify is a mission driven company to Make Commerce Better for Everyone. Those words are intentional, and drive this company to do remarkable things.

I was a member of the Core Deliver Orders team. I helped guide the strategy and design for new approaches to resolve order management. I worked on everything from Order Tasks, to Shopify PoP (a self directed product line), to a multi resource list view for order management.

During my time at Shopify, I was an inventor on two patents.

I was part of the May 2023 RIF, that impacted 20% of the Shopify workforce.

I founded Thinkable as a mission driven company to let everymind reach the full potential of its thoughts and ideas. 

I believe technology has created an imbalance that harms our potential by making hyper-distraction and hyper-productivity normal.

I’ve taken 25 years of design practice and have created a method that everymind can use to create balance, and to develop their innate design and creative abilities so they can dream of new worlds, change their future, and reach their potential.

As a Design Founder, I’ve designed and built every aspect of this company, from brand, to messaging, countless sketches, graphics, writing the course, building an audience, and propping up the business. I’ve much support from my friends, contemporaries and brilliant designers that I’ve had the pleasure to work with over the years.

Join me, and subscribe and learn the Art of Tangible Thinking. A free email course.

Free your mind and unlock your design + creative abilities. Overcome hyper-distraction and hyper-productivity. Move ideas from your head to your hands.

KATERRA is a Silicon Valley technology company that is redefining the multi-trillion dollar construction industry. We apply tech-centric innovation to transforming the way buildings and spaces come to life.

// Life of the Building

The Advanced Building Systems group's, vision is to take the latest advances in AI and SmartHome technology and provide a human centric experience that makes living at home safer, healthier and simpler for individuals and families. 

// Life of the Build

Working with the Technology group I help shape how technology is designed and adopted by the humans that need to use it -  at the desks of our designers, on the factory floor, and on the construction site. Every user is treated as a first class citizen. I inherited the design of a product (Apollo) and a remote design team. We look to optimize the delivery of information (data) across multiple touchpoint, and bubble up the right information to the right user. The ConTech space is in its infancy, and I take a Silicon Valley design approach to deliver frictionless experiences in pragmatic steps.

I’m a firm believer that, "Technology Pushes + Design Pulls".

At KATERRA I'm lucky enough to use my entire design “stack” (Architecture, Product Design, Design Innovation) in the practice of conceiving / building / shipping products in consumer spaces (Mobile/SmartTV/SmartHome), while getting to work at the world's most advanced and innovative construction company.

// On June 7th Katerra filed for Bankruptcy & US/Canadian operations ceased to exist.

Stealth startup. Responsible for all product and industrial design for HAVEN the Autonomous Home HMI, that interfaced with an Autonomous Home Platform (Paladin Armour was acquired by Katerra)

Pioneering a new approach to innovation through the "Innovation Design Stack" and envisioning new product introductions, across Smart TV's, IoT and Mobile experiences. 

+ Envision innovative product experiences for consumer devices & connected systems.
+ Provide product vision and conceptual, direction for all new product innovations.
+ Manage all resources on a cross-functional project team to execute on program
+ Manage Innovation Design Portfolio and Innovation Pipe.
+ Created an “Innovation Design Stack” framework to guide innovation programs.

Plstic is a multidisciplinary design innovation studio (of one) where I design and speculate new products and experiences. I identify unique problems, and create compelling value through vision-making, and design elaboration.

From multi-modal interfaces to connected devices and innovative furniture, Sanjiv Sirpal - a designer & near-futurist - works at the intersection of physical and digital worlds, humanizing technology through thoughtful design

Hands on Executive Design Leader for Hisense's only Design & Technology Studio. Leading all innovation and product design activities for a Jamdeo.

+ Deliver disruptive product experiences for connected home and consumer devices by leading all product design activities through a world class team of designers.

+ Enabled high performing design teams, by creating a design framework (Design Manifesto) to help define approaches, design principals, methodologies, tools, templates for all design.

+ Provide executive design leadership across Product, User Experience & Engineering in order to facilitate the development of products.

Founding Product/UX designer for an innovative class defining dual screen smartphone. Leading all user experience design activity, and managing a brilliant design team.

+ Product Vision and Strategy
+ Conceptual Designer
+ Product & UX Design
+ Android OS & Application Design
+ Mentorship, Team Building, Process Definition
+ Design Thinking

Previous positions held at Flextronics: Sr User Interface Designer and Sr. Manager, User Experience.

Responsible for the management of a small user experience / creative design group. Led all IA activities for product development, and external web projects.

Previous positions held at dThree : Sr. Information Architect

Led the user interface design activities of a Contact Center solution as an integral part of the product definition team over two major release cycles. Developed form layouts, user interface specifications, icon concepts and managed usability concerns. Worked closely with the Director of Development and Chief Architect to ensure the success of the user interface.

Lead User Interface Designer for a new wealth management solution.

+ At extend media, I was responsible for the information architecture for a number of client projects.

Created a corporate UI strategy and formed a UI team. Advocating user-centered design as an approach within the development cycle

Responsible for the UI Design of CorelCAD 3D a windows based 3D Solid Modelling Application.

Sanjiv Sirpal🇨🇦