Pakistan

UX Design

Game Design

XR Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Product Design

Growth Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Growth Product Management

Project Management

UX Testing

UX Research

Service Design Research

UX Engineering

UX writing

Business Development

Business Transformation

AI Design

Design Systems

Systems Design

Generative AI

Master's degree

Bachelor of Science - BS

H.S.S.C. Intermediate

S.S.C. Matriculation

Zulqarnain Ansari

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Founder & CEO, UX Strategy for SaaS & Fintech

Facebook

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Behance

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Analytical skills

Project management

Public Speaking

Negotiation

Accessibility

AI/ML

Brand positioning

Brand strategy

Branding

Campaign execution & analysis

Community management

Content creation

Content research

Content strategy

Data visualisation

Deal strategy

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Illustration

Influencer marketing

Information architecture

Budget management

Market research

Marketing strategy

Partnership

Product analytics

Product roadmap

Product strategy

Prototyping

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Relationship management

Sales plan and process

Social media marketing

Tone consistency

Typography

Usability Testing

User research

Unit Testing

Conversational AI

Chatbot

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Asana

Axure

Balsamiq

Canva

ChatGPT

Confluence

Facebook Ads

Figma

Framer

Google Analytics

Hotjar

HTML

Instagram Ads

Jira

Lucidchart

Mailchimp

Miro

Monday

Notion

SurveyMonkey

Trello

Typeform

UserTesting

Vimeo

Webflow

WordPress

Zeplin

Sketch

Mural

Midjourney

InVision

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

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

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

Being a woman in tech

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

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 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

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

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

I am currently an instructor at the Department of Visual Communication Design within the Mariam Dawood School of Visual Art & Design at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan (www.bnu.edu.pk). My primary focus is on teaching a comprehensive exploration of interaction design tailored specifically for Augmented Reality Head-Up Displays and Gamification through Design.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the background, stakeholders, and objectives involved in interaction design.
2. Analyze the immersive context and previous projects within the AR field, with a particular emphasis on applications in the automotive industry.
3. Apply relevant theoretical frameworks, such as human information processing, situation awareness, and visual perception.
4. Demonstrate proficiency in the process of designing, implementing, and evaluating AR systems through iterative design cycles.

Immersive design, Experimental Design, Augment Designs

TRANSFORMING THE USER EXPERIENCE:
• Research, Define / Redefine, and Execute UX Vision and Strategy for the Company.
• Support development of innovative new business models (eg, deliver 2x disruption-opportunity presentations per year)  
• Improve experiences for customers by ensuring high-quality design, including ownership of all front-end interaction points (eg, company website) 
• Drive design standardization across the organization with biennial design-standard reviews and 2 to 4 training sessions per year for designers 

TRANSFORMING THE ORGANIZATION:
• Represent design at top level of the organization: 2x CEO leadership meetings per month, 3x to 4x board meetings each year 

TRANSFORMING THE DESIGN TEAM:
• Develop design team skills, supporting regular conference visits for different skill sets (eg, user-experience conference) 
• Nurture a thriving community of designers through monthly town halls, ideally 2x per month stand-ups 
• Build and maintain the design team.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define the Experience Design vision and strategy across the company along with the UX process planning & execution.
• Work with marketing, product management, R&D and customer support to define and execute on the end-to-end customer experience at both the macro and micro interaction level.
• Define critical KPIs, metrics, and business outcomes that deliver an ROI to the organization and communicate them effectively.
• Build top-notched user experience design team, able to understand and implement the above mentioned UX process.
• Organize the skillsets that deliver the designs and interactions with other departments to execute and demonstrate great design.
•  Infuse the culture with a design thinking mindset—a creative approach to solve business, product and user problems with design first approach.
• Coaching, mentoring resource allocation and management to ensure smooth sprint deliveries with team members in meetings and training sessions.
• Transfer projects / products vision and ensure the best user experience design practices to the UX team.
• Implement the best User experience practices and ownership of design to ensure the qualitative and quantitative user research efforts to identify user needs and processes execution based on the customer personas and empathy maps.
• Working with experience design team members to develop professional plans by setting expectations and career goals.

• Strategic and Executive plans development and implementations
• Team Management
• Setting Business Goals, Objectives and Strategies
• Mentor
• Innovate
• Building culture
• Project Management
• Resource Management
• Operations
• Fund raising & Capital Allocation

• UI / UX Consultancy for online product
• Managing design department
• Managing HTML / CSS department
• Coordination with development and Marketing departments

Web site Architecture Development

•  Planing Web Site base on user experience matrix
•  Designing Interface, Template, Themes
•  Designing Logos, Icons, CSS Sprites
•  Development / Coding XHTML, CSS and JQUERY
•  Optimization (CSS , Imaging)
•  Search Engine Ranking Increasing (SEO, SEM)

Designing (All Print Media Designing)

User Experience Designing, Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.

PROJECTS / CLIENTS:
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Mobile interface and user experience projects for bikers community, health care and educational industries. Website Projects for Telekaam, 1000 plus different corporate brand designing projects

•  Develop base for centralized Presentation layer (cross browser hacks, design and parsing standards checks)
•  Web Parsing & Authoring (html, xhtml, css and web 2.0)
•  Interactive UX Development
•  UI Designing for Web and Mobile interfaces

PROJECTS:
ROZEE, MOBILINKGSM, MCDONALDS, UNITED NATIONS PAKISTAN, COCA COLA, LUMS, FAST, ERICSSON, PAKISTAN TOBBACO COMPANIES, EDEN HOUSING SOCIETY, ENGRO FOODS, NATIONAL FOODS, UCP, IBA, BAHRIA, NED, FC.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
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•  Develop XSL Transformation based website through XML & XSL templates using the power of advanced CSS, and implement it by interacting XSL department (centralized structure).
•  Web Designing (Photoshop) & Authoring (html, xhtml, css & web 2.0).
•  Web Quality Management & validations (w3c compliance).
•  Newsletter Publishing for ROZEE.pk & NASEEB.com.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES: 
• Business Planning & Strategy Development.
• Provide support for marketing team to develop attractive packages for different potential clients (PRINT MEDIA)
• Study complete flow of various applications (ONLINE SHOPPING CART, LIFE INSURANCE SYSTEM, LAWYER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM & MEMBER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM) & implement design for the numerous clients.
• Visit the client’s offices and interact with the working personnel along with System Architect and make the attractive flow charts as per required.
• Design resource allocation and management to ensure smooth sprint deliveries.
• Coaching and mentoring team members in meetings and training sessions.
• Operation management for Accounts, HR, Projects, Products and Services.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES: 
• Create ideas for animated intros and implement it for both WEB & MULTIMEDIA.
• Design Interactive Presentations for MULTIMEDIA.
• Support Sales Department in Pre-Sales design activities for animations.

PROJECTS ACCOMPLISHED: 
• Company Introductory Animation (Adobe Flash)
• ADZEE IT SOLUTIONS Animated CD
• ADDINN Animated CD
• PAKAMAK Animated CD

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