Netherlands

UX Design

Branding and Identity Design

Service Design

Customer Experience (CX)

National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India

National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India

Shipra Bhargava

Experience strategist

Collaboration

Critical-thinking

Organisation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Brand strategy

Miro

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

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

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

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

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

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

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

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

Creating a product vision

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

Onboarding new users

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

Facilitating Change Through an Innovation-Driven Mindset

- Expanding & developing the experience strategy practice within the Benelux region.
- Leading and mentoring a team of user researchers, experience strategists, and Gen-AI experts.
- Steering innovation-led, digital product design projects and teams to deliver strategic solutions and impactful digital transformations.
- Growing the business for the Strategy & Design team in collaboration with commercial partners and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Co-creating pitches and offerings for experience transformation enabled by data and technology.
- Facilitating alignment and co-ideation workshops.

- Grow business for Designit in ASEAN & SAARC region- Participate in integrated design + tech proposal creation, internal planning and sales strategy with multi-functional & multi-geo teams. Identify & execute new market outreach activities for Bengaluru studio. 
- Lead market outreach programs, PoVs & thought leadership
- Play vital part in strategic projects- Lead strategic design process and team of service designers, strategists, UI/UX designers. Manage research, service design & business design projects
- Professional Design Education Lead & Design Thinking workshop facilitator.  Conduct design thinking trainings & workshops in India & other ASEAN countries
- Build design capabilities for the studio- Identify & hire strategic roles for the team like product, strategic, service and business designers
- Collaborate with other Designers & Technologists Connect locally and globally across Wipro Digital & Designit teams
- Lead cross-disciplinary teams- Improvise operational processes & inculcate design culture
- Guest faculty & external jury member- Visiting faculty at NID, NIFT, Pearl Academy.

My role is defined best at the intersection where design meets business or rather creating design led business paths. Infusing design thinking and brand values to create desirable & memorable experiences at every touchpoint in people's lives. With the ability to Identify new territories for companies & maximize potential of existing ones, I focus on building a stronger connect with their audiences.

Idea Spice design Pvt. Ltd is an international brand consultancy firm specializing in creating identity for organizations.

 Key responsibility areas-

 1.  Research & Strategy-  Assessing opportunity areas for companies, developing brand strategies, directing design research, creating appropriate creative strategy & design guidelines. Present creative concepts to the client and translate visual/verbal concepts and creative strategy. Involved in creating retail service & product experience for various industry ventures. 

 2. Systems & Processes-  Setting up & regularizing systems & processes followed by a creative firm. Ensuring consistency in design methodology & implementation followed across all offices.

 3. Project Management -  Formulating client proposals,  finding external associates & collaboration, documentation of processes, managing internal and external teams, ensuring timelines. Monitor quality, accuracy and timeliness of creative deliverables against brief.

 4. New Business development-  Contribute to the strategic and creative development of the agency’s marketing efforts for new business development. Lead New Business presentations. identifying new markets; potential industries & networking platforms; meeting potential clients; making relevant presentations; membership with key networking organizations; negotiating with clients and analyzing the profitability of the project

5. Creative team management-  Continually analyze the creative team, environment and processes to determine areas needing improvement and work with management team to implement solutions. Build a culture for creative team attitude, behavior, teamwork and professional development. Conduct staff reviews periodically. involved in the recruitment decisions; strategic tie-ups with colleges and institutions for hiring fresh talent through various orientation programs and workshops. Mentoring student internships & Diploma projects.

Key responsibility areas

                                                           · Initial setup and management of a design studio dealing with jewelry &amp; lifestyle
                                                           accessory design &amp; production
                                                           · Sourcing vendors for manufacturing &amp; materials
                                                           · Costing , pricing, documentation of products
                                                           · Business development
                                                           · Identifying key exhibitions &amp; fairs to promote products

Key Responsibility Area

                                                           · Conceptualizing &amp; designing new line of corporate gifts
                                                           · Designing products as per existing design language &amp; resources
                                                           · Training goldsmith artisans to adapt to making silverware.
                                                           · To setup desired infrastructure required for smooth manufacturing of silverware.

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