Australia

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Master of Design

Master of Fine Arts

PG Certificate

B.F.A.

Sumit

Lead UX Designer

Prototyping

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Design systems

Adobe XD

Asana

Balsamiq

Canva

Figma

InVision

Miro

Notion

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

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

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

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

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

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

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

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

•	Led the complete redesign of a legacy Oracle-based booking platform for SA Health’s contact centre, creating a responsive, touch-friendly interface that significantly improved usability across devices.

•	Conducted in-depth UX research—including interviews, task analysis, and workflow mapping—to identify key inefficiencies, then translated findings into a high-fidelity Figma prototype with reduced cognitive load and faster task completion.

•	Achieved a 50–70% reduction in booking time for new and returning clients, enhancing service delivery for over 100,000 users annually and supporting improved healthcare access across South Australia.

•	Designed the User Interface and Key—Phrase Extraction Module, a rare technology that allows intelligent analysis of the unstructured text based on the use of wordbank score and the scope of the theme discussed throughout the text piece.

•	Designed the User Interface and Interaction for Research Grants Management System (Sapphire web-app) used by National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia.
•	Created user story maps, task flows and data interactions for the Grant Management Project, which streamlined the User Experience as well as the overall project development.
•	Conducted expert usability analysis of several tasks and redesigned the interface to deliver an improved user experience of the respective product features.

•	Created a Design System comprised of hundreds of visual components for the Ministry of Manpower, Singapore to ensure consistency of websites for multiple departments.
•	Led a UX research team of 10 to investigate and improve the digital experience for the NGO ‘Because all Children Matter’ using various methods - competitive benchmarking, heuristic analysis, interviews and affinity mapping. 
•	Conducted qualitative research with an educational start-up to investigate the constraints in home education during the COVID19. The outcome was a research report & a prototypes of UI designs for learning management system that suggested activities to reduce stress.

•	Wrote a research paper that detailed the benefits of VR assisted learning and its advantages for collaborative educational environment like schools and colleges.
•	Created 3 storyboards for the provided brief to illustrate multiplayer VR environment and scene transitions that communicate the gameplay to the development team for the initial VR demo creation.
•	Analysed the environmental hazards and created guidelines for the safe use of VR equipment ensuring that it creates a beneficial user experience.

•	Performed qualitative research on application processes for recruitment of undergraduate and graduate students in Australian universities to establish the right precedent and rationale for designing a new system.
•	Designed a streamlined user interface of the application system for international students based on the information gathered through research phase.
•	Received more than 70% positive feedback on improved usability of the form leading to of the next design iteration that showed near 100% positive results. The new design incorporated better visual feedback and smart assistance to aid the users in successfully submitting the application form.

•	Developed well-structured product information that highlights the key features for more than 600 photography products selling on DCW’s website with a goal to ease the user’s purchase decision.
•	Designed infographics for product comparison to improve brand presence on social media.

•	Conducted user research and documented the pain points faced by the backend team in the management of photography content across different image galleries by observing their operations and conducting interviews.
•	Created wireframes, optimised workflows and a designed user interface of the Image Archiving Software which reduced errors during the content uploading and benefited in maintaining a consistent presentation of each car model on the company’s website and a well-organised archive. 
•	Established a new work process to enable user manuals to be easily scanned and archived. As a result, the team was able to scale integration with a car-maintenance app and users can easily access data relevant to their car models.

•	Developed flow diagrams, sitemaps and wireframes for more than 20 client websites to ensure that the product logically flows from one step to the next. 
•	Serviced more than 15 clients by providing consultations on interface design, selection of UX scenarios for their websites or mobile apps, and the management of data to run their businesses more efficiently.
•	Helped several corporate clients in presenting business proposals by providing a well-designed and visually rich presentations for their selected audience.

•	Ensured the proper workflow for the studio operation and technology, which included management of online bookings, managing data back-ups from all the photo-video shoots, editing and finally, the delivery of all the finished products.
•	Developed a consistent brand image through appropriate signages and logo mentions on all the invoices and handouts.

Zahra

UI/UX designer

William Nguyen

Product Designer

Gaurav Kharel

akash menezes

UX Designer

Christopher Murphy

Freelance Ux UI Designer

Jacinthe Chen

Welcome to my mentoring sessions designed for aspiring and returning designers! Whether you're reconnecting with the industry or just starting out after completing your qualifications or bootcamps, these sessions are here to help you refine your UX and UI design portfolios and polish your resume for upcoming interviews. My goal is to empower you and contribute to a thriving, human-centered design community. These sessions are free and open to all, so let's grow together!

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