Arnav Sameer

About

Seasoned product design leader who has shipped ideas to market and delivered value as part of both early startups and large companies alike.

Experience

• Freelance UX Designer · Airdev07-01-2022

  Helping clients build their vision using robust and scalable NoCode technologies.

• Mentor · Designlab06-01-2021

  Mentoring students and experienced professionals on guidance to break into the design industry.

• Design Lead · SquadStack07-01-2021 – 10-01-2022

  Led and mentored a stellar team of product and visual designers to deliver the new generation of SquadStack's design language and systems for scaling user experiences across the supply chain for its on-demand sales marketplace. ◼️ Launched the all new SquadStack Partners app (https://bit.ly/3UypT9T) with an experience rating of 3.85⭐️ and NPS of 46 in the recently successfully concluded closed beta program. ◼️ Led research and product design from ground up to understanding key business and supply problems to delivering the right solutions within months by focusing on key metrics of assessment, time taken to perform calling tasks and experience reviews of sales experts on the platform. ◼️ Managed communication with business, product and engineering stakeholders to inform the design process in heavy bandwidth constraints through a system first iterative approach to problem solving. ◼️ Instilled better design functional practices and growth paths for team members through constant mentorship and performance related feedback.

• Product Designer · Qatalog04-01-2020 – 06-01-2021

  As part of the early 10 member team. I was responsible for setting up the UX foundations for workflows, goals & posts, I also helped to build and evolve the design system from scratch that enabled the team to ship high quality quality experiences to the first 500 customers in just 9 months.

• Product Designer · Microsoft06-01-2018 – 04-01-2020

  Redesigned the Outlook experience on mobile web, make it more cohesive and aligned with the Outlook ecosystem and Microsoft fluent web language, understand usage patterns from telemetry and drive feature decisions coupled with qualitative insights by regularly speaking to personas representing various age groups Drove thinking towards an ideal vision for what the product can be by pitching ideas to stakeholders and getting buy-in for building features on well-researched insights Established alignment with different teams in different geographies, regularly communicating and bouncing ideas and possibilities that could permeate through the Outlook ecosystem Led the effort to unify the Outlook mobile web design system to help other designers on the team establish consistency in patterns and components for quicker handoff and concept ideation. Started the practice of quickly getting feedback on prototypes from real people through tools like UserTesting. This helped us back our proposals with insights from real people and scrappy research without a dedicated UX researcher on the team. Helped ideate and develop branded showcases to communicate, conceptualize design efforts for new initiatives like Outlook for KaiOS and celebrate the work that our team was doing over the quarters.

• Co-Founder & Principal Designer · Lernr01-01-2017 – 06-01-2018

  Discovered, defined and led the overall product design, branding & marketing initiatives along with managing the development team to ship the minimum viable experience.

• User Experience Design Intern · Google09-01-2017 – 11-01-2017

  My contribution during this project was a UX framework that focuses on incorporating delight in the payment experience. Collaborated with stakeholders across geographies, discovered, defined and iterated through an entire spectrum of concepts which were released as the Sparks feature in the Google Pay app launched specifically for India. Check it out on pay.google.com

• Design Consultant · Kreativz, Inc.07-01-2017 – 08-01-2017

  https://www.kreativz.com Conceptualised and designed infographics for print media detailing out organisational workflows and performance exhibits of the United Religions Initiative (uri.org)

• Design Consultant · CIRA Innovations06-01-2015 – 08-01-2015

  Defined requirements and designed the entire user experience of a dashboard for store counter managers to manage, assign and track food orders from store customers and hotels at Atchayam Food Box outlets across the country.

• Digital Designer · FOLO09-01-2012 – 06-01-2015

  https://folo.in Worked on a range of disciplines like graphic, information, UX and sound design. Managed the music production division of FOLO. Created visual identities for brands, designed multi-platform user experiences for products, applications and services.

Education

• National Institute of DesignM. Des, New Media Design

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