United States

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Vidhi Mehta

Senior UX Designer

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

LinkedIn Groups provide a place for professionals in the same industry or with similar interests to share their insights and experiences, ask for guidance, and build valuable connections.

Course Tutor for an online course in Designing Services & Products with Artificial Intelligence for Pearl Academy.

LinkedIn Events provides members with an easy way to create and join professional events that interest them. This feature helps grow active, professional communities by building authentic, face-to-face relationships.

LinkedIn Lite is the global mobile web experience for LinkedIn as well as a standalone app that takes less that 1 megabyte on the device. I worked with the Lite team to design experiences for its novice members.

Studio 5B is the Innovation and Design Centre at Dr. Reddy Labs - an integrated global pharmaceutical company. I worked on building digital solutions for the dermatology product portfolio for the North America marketplace.

EF is a talent investor and seed incubator. While at EF, I worked on developing the business model for Post/Biotics, to take it from a prototype to product.

Post/Biotics is a citizen science toolkit and platform that helps people collaborate with scientists to find the next antibiotic by testing local surroundings for antimicrobials. As the founder and designer, my role involved development of the toolkits and the digital platform.

Worked at Agency of Design on a few client projects including is a a digital interaction project to build projection mapping system for a large scale sculpture

Worked at Ducere Technologies to prototype Le Chal, an interactive haptic navigation footwear

Worked at Microsoft on development of a post-sales customer engagement platform. Platform addressed the consumer needs such as warranty management, up-selling, loyalty development and grievance redressal.

Undergraduate Thesis Project: Future of Customer Service 
Funded by CRM Dynamics, Microsoft

Worked at Quicksand on "The Hand Hygiene Project". The project, funded by Clean Hands Inc. London (CHI) focussed on technology adaptation research for the needs of urban hand sanitation for low income groups.

Vidhi Mehta🇺🇸