India

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Customer Experience (CX)

UX Research

University of Mumbai

Sonika Sharma

Principal UX

Quantitative research

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Leadership

Project management

Design systems

Asana

Balsamiq

Figma

InVision

Jira

Lucidchart

Miro

Mixpanel

Sketch

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

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

Being a woman in tech

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

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

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

Conducting good user research

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

- Leading a UX team squad of 4 UX’ers for collaboration and implementation of project with Fortune 500 company applications¡
- Primary focus on identifying design problems and devise elegant solutions¡
- Drove strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new functions and features by taking a user-centered design approach
- UI/UX Design -  Was successfully able to built and drive Smart Watch design experience for a Fortune 500 US based company Verizon

- Collaborated with the engineering team to design a scalable architecture on top of AWS to support processing and visualizing large volumes of client data for payments.
- Developed wireframes and worked with designers on hi-fidelity mock-ups to redesign the existing application to speed up processing.
- Performed final user testing for implementation of application using AWS

- Developed entrepreneurial skills while overseeing design collaboration for online and offline products, marketing, and operations.
- Led a dynamic team of 20, including developers, designers, and testers, managing end-to-end web application projects.
- Created User Experience roadmaps for internal and client-facing applications, systems, and interfaces.
- Successfully implemented three major web applications post-contract, each serving over 10,000 end users.
- Transitioning into a role as a co-founder, bringing extensive experience in team leadership, design integration, and strategic product launches.

Worked with the startup founders and built the product from prototype to MVP beta launch to v1 production release.

Performed a competitive analysis and conducted market research, including market segmentation and strategy. Also Researched the market and competition, interviewed customers to craft compelling user experiences, and shipped new features and bug fixes weekly.

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