India

Product Design

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Generalist Product Management

Growth Product Management

Interaction Design

Sasikumar Das

Lead Product designer

Quantitative research

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Market research

User research

Product roadmap

Figma

Notion

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

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

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

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

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

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

Working with engineers

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

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Led Supply-Side & Consumer Experience 🛵

1st hire in Product design Team.
Crafting consumer and supply-side experiences for India’s largest Bike Taxi platform which has a presence in 90+ Indian cities.

• Research and develop a point-of-view on relevant market/design trends and the competitive landscape to inspire and drive design directions.
• Translate consumer needs, brand identity attributes into functional, beautiful,
   brand-targeted product experiences.
• Continual usability and heuristic evaluation of our flagship products.

• Turned human behavior and needs into real concepts Crafted user flows and wireframes
• Built UI mockups and prototypes quickly
• Collaborated with team members and decision makers
• Designed Crypto market UI Dashboard	
• Did User Research and was Co-designer of Trading Platform 
• Crafted user flows and wireframes
• Wireframes For TrionData Dashboard (flagship product)

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