NN/G COURSE: BEING A UX LEADER
Attended and gave the exam for Being a UX leader course at NN/g. An extremely valuable course where I learnt applicable frameworks on how to evangelise UX within your company.
Hint: I’m somewhere in the middle of the picture.
DA VINCI VIA FROM HERE ON
Runners up in the Service Design Network awards in 2018 for the Da Vinci project. I had worked on the project via From Here On (a Business Design Agency) for British Telecommunication (BT).
https://www.service-design-network.org/headlines/fromhereon-da-vinci
https://www.fromhereon.com/blog-list/service-design-awards-finalist
LUFBRA SERVICE JAM
Mentored the winning team, Redsloths, in the Lufbra Service Jam. My role was to inspire, ignite design thinking and allow the team to follow a User Centred Design process. In the service jam all teams were revealed a theme that day. The teams had to formulate an idea and eventually design a proof of concept. To our excitement we won first prize.
MENTORSHIP
Over the last couple of years through City University or networking events, I have mentored numerous women who have wanted to break into the UX industry. My role as a mentor has been to help these women self-reflect, evaluate their goals, consider their gaps and create a plan on how they will fill those gaps. Others areas I have helped is to give them guidance on CV’s, portfolio creation and career progression.
TALK AT CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON
Gave a talk to Students at City University doing their MSc. in Human Centred Systems. The talk gave tips on how to successfully find your first UX job.
TALK AT NEST I/O
Gave a talk on the UX process of moving from an idea to an MVP at Nest I/O, a google partnered incubator in Pakistan.
BLOG: THE FUTURE OF PRE-FLIGHT EXPERIENCE
Wrote a blog about the future of the airport experience, which still seems relevant today.
VISUAL ANALYTICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (VAST)
Helped to analyze data, identify anomalies/trends and produce a video for the IEEE VAST Data Challenge.
Team Awarded ‘Efficient Use of Visualization’ by IEEE VAST.
Read project report here: https://independent.academia.edu/AhmedNabiha