India

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

Master of Arts - MA

Sooraj Premkumar

Product Design Manager

Portfolio

Resume

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Figma

Human computer interaction

Qualitative research

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

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

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

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

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

- Set design requirements based on information from internal teams and user research.
- Analyze how a new product satisfies market needs and consumer preferences.
- Coordinate with tech team members to ensure consistent and accurate communication.
- Work closely with product engineers to suggest improvements for products and processes.
- Present product design ideas to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.

- Created and launched the Vidyartha.com Project from scratch.
- Setting up the design sprints and Communicates design solutions to developers and stakeholders
- Identify design requirements and perform workload assignments to meet product design goals.
- Provide direction and guidance to team mates to meet timely deliveries.

- Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals, and experience
- Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
- Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to complex design roadblocks
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

- Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with product managers and engineers
- Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
- Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
- Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
- Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback

- Conceptualizing creative ideas with clients
- Communicating design ideas using user flows, process flows, site maps, and wireframes
- Designing UI elements and tools such as navigation menus, search boxes, tabs, and widgets for our digital assets
- Adhering to style standards on typography and graphic design

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