United Arab Emirates

UI/ Visual Design

Graphic Design

UX Design

Associate’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

Yazan Obeidat

Head of User Experience & Research

Problem-solving

Figma

Miro

Adobe Creative Suite

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

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

• Lead the design of the digital AI Twin. A platform that empowers people to have an AI version of themselves through 3D face scanning and voice recognition.

• Improved the mobile web and desktop conversion rate by 1% as per the industry standard by enhancing the omni channel infrastructure in place to deliver a world-class customer experience.

• Contributed in hiring a multidisciplinary team and identifying key opportunities, planning and resource management for a program of UX work.

• Drafted "Oculus" a design system template with the sole focus of interconnected Efficiency, consistency, scale and catering to user accessibility standards.

• Spear-headed the design strategy of the eyewa mobile app revamp by incorporating the industry and regions best practices, Competitor audit (Direct) and (Indirect) Facilitating Qualitative user research via behavioral user interviews.

• Evolving Vacation Waiver into the Trip Flexibility for Flight (Assurance) Which services customers who booked a flight to have the flexibility to change or cancel for any reason without paying supplier or Expedia penalty fees.

•Creating high-fidelity prototypes of the VAP skills flows on TF allowed the team to get a bird’s eye view of the entire scenarios and contributed to the creation of the training material and it’s eureka links to help agents assist customers

Created the base framework and designed the entire UI foundation for web Typography, buttons, cards, Icons etc.

Designed mock-ups for Bundle promotions to attract consumers who benefit from ' single, value-oriented purchase. To significantly increase profits on individual sales over time.

Pioneered the use of “Zeplin” A collaboration tool between designers and developers to Generate style guides and resources, automatically. Cutting meeting times in half.

Took ownership of Amazon Global Store, to merge 6 Million products to our own 8 Million existing product line to maximize the middle-eastʼs global marketplace and cement the two powerful brand identities together.

Prototyped visual design concepts, for the communication preferences settings feature which resulted in an un-subscription ratio of 61%.

Updated the login user interface (UI) for both Web and Mobile to simplify the login process, Bringing it closer to brand guidelines.

Conducted user research through interviews and usability testing before and after the re-design.

Specialties:

Designed an intuitive mobile application for the Specialties section, A Question and answer platform to increase after job search user-engagement.

Injected user-experience design into dozens of Web and mobile properties for the Learning portal increasing after job search engagement by 12.8%.

Designed a compelling user experience for the blog and podcast landing page section to improve customer engagement ratios.

E-commerce:

Enhanced user traffic, interactivity and outlook of the CV Writing page.

Designed the Premium and Elite subscription page with labeling e'ch benefit with strong emotional appeal increasing conversion by 27.5%.

Redesigned the Profile visibility page with a high-impact design to keep users applying to relevant jobs.

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