India

Graphic Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Service Design

Product Design

Saqib Malik

Lead Product Designer

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Leadership

Analytical skills

Design systems

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Figma

Framer

HTML

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Sketch

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

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

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

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

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

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

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

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

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

● Designed multiple features like Mentorship, Skill Management, Feedback Mechanism,  and improved existing experiences for Auzmor's Employee Experience Suite, which increased user engagement by up to 30% within six months by utilizing the analytics and customer data to drive design decisions. 
● Conducted usability testing and heuristic evaluations for Auzmor's LMS interfaces, identifying key areas for enhancement that led to a 21% boost in user satisfaction scores. 
● Crafted a comprehensive design system for Auzmor's Suite of Employee Experience products, facilitating consistent and scalable UI components across projects, accelerating the design & development process by 32%, and ensuring a cohesive user experience. 
● Mentored multiple Junior designers to improve their processes and methodologies and keep them consistent, ensuring viable, consistent design solutions.
● Developed a user-centered design strategy for Auzmor’s mobile application, leveraging user feedback and industry trends to enhance user interface intuitiveness and accessibility, resulting in a 25% increase in mobile application adoption within three months.

● Synthesized creative input from cross-functional teams to produce high-impact visual content, increasing campaign engagement by 25% and meeting 100% of project deadlines. 
● Revitalized brand identity by redesigning logo and visual assets, elevating brand recall by 30%, and contributing to a 15% increase in client acquisition within six months. 
● Spearheaded the development of a comprehensive design system that streamlined the creation process, reduced redundancy by 40%, and enhanced collaboration efficiency across multi-departmental projects. 
● Orchestrated a large-scale digital campaign that resulted in a 50% boost in user engagement and improved conversion rates by 20%, utilizing advanced graphic tools such as Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

● Developed visual identities for 45+ clients across diverse industries, including print, out-of-home, and digital campaigns reaching millions of users.
● Conceptualized innovative design strategies that increased social media engagement by 25% for a key client.
● Designed 500+ digital ads for online campaigns, contributing to an average 30% increase in sales.

● Worked as a founding designer, working on everything from Product requirements, Research, and finalizing the product with key stakeholders down to minute UI details.
●  Created user flows, storyboards, and information architecture diagrams to effectively communicate design concepts and interaction models to internal teams and stakeholders, ensuring alignment on project goals. 
●  Collaborated with the diverse team of developers and other stakeholders at every step of the product's lifecycle.
●  Created and managed a design system to streamline the design and development process and to ensure pixel-perfect results through the collaboration of design and development teams.

● Designed 50+ high-impact newspaper layouts monthly, aligning with brand guidelines and improving reader engagement by 22% through optimized visual hierarchy and typography.

● Created 300+ custom graphical elements (icons, illustrations, infographics) using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, enhancing digital/print campaigns for multiple clients and reducing stock asset dependency by 40%.

çConceptualized and iterated 15+ advertisement redesigns through collaborative brainstorming sessions, boosting click-through rates (CTR) by 18% and client satisfaction scores by up to 35%.

● Streamlined cross-platform design workflows for print/digital media, arranging page elements (images, text, CTAs) to achieve 100% consistency across 10+ marketing channels and reducing revision cycles by 25%.

Developed 200+ raster-based visual concepts (e.g., photo manipulations, textures) for Native Kashmir, directly contributing to a 15% increase in social media shares and 10% higher lead conversion.

Saqib Malik🇮🇳