Kriss Patel
Lead UX Designer | UX Strategist | Design Mentor
5 yrs experience · Toronto, ON · 30-40 hrs/week
About
I'm Kriss Patel, a lead UX designer with over 4 years of experience in the design industry. I take pride in designing visually stunning websites and mobile apps that improve user satisfaction and conversion rates through data-driven insights and analytics. I'm currently the lead UX designer at Connect2Crypto, where my biggest accomplishments have been creating a collaborative roadmap, introducing design sprints, reducing design errors by 40% resulting in a 20% reduction in project time, and collaborating with the engineering team to create a design handoff document and standard process resulting in 20% faster outputs.
Skills
Experience
- Lead UX Designer · CONNECT2CRYPTO03-01-2022
• Created the roadmap for the design team using a collaborative process that included the project manager, product owner, and key developers, resulting in a milestone-driven plan that was embraced by the team and clients. • Wrote biweekly design team reports to measure key performance metrics and team progress, identify gaps, and communicate with stakeholders; templates were created and tracked in Notion. • Introduced a design sprint for the design team to collaborate and increase the efficiency of the design team's output. • Created a design checklist document for a team of three that reduced 40% of design errors, resulting in a 20% reduction in overall project time. • As a lead UX designer, I used metrics to evaluate how to meet design goals. As a result, I collaborated with the engineering team to create a design handoff document and standard process to follow, which resulted in 20% faster outputs.
- UX Designer · CONNECT2CRYPTO08-15-2021 – 03-01-2022
• Improved the design process timeline by 20% by creating a set of templates for project managers, including stakeholder meeting agendas, user-personas, and user-journeys. • Developed, designed, and implemented a full and coherent vision encompassing the entire app. • Built wireframes, storyboards, and screen flows from verbal and written specifications. • Confidently articulate how a design solution answers user needs, business goals, technical constraints, and other project requirements. • Gained user feedback through interviews, surveys, and user testing.
- UX Designer · AAE Engineering12-01-2020 – 02-25-2021
• Conducted UX research for this rising start-up in order to help them establish their digital presence and expand their customer base in the online sector. • Worked directly with the client to establish the project scope, interaction guidelines, and project timelines. • Performed user interviews and used the need-finding approach to better identify user behaviors and discover the brand's personality • Created a working prototype in Figma and am currently working on developing the site in Webflow. • Ensured all web site designs follow W3C web standards.
- Graphic/Web Designer · Umiya Prints & Marketing01-01-2017 – 07-31-2019
• Assisted, developed and revisited the company's marketing material i.e. posters, brochures, forms, handouts etc. • Created graphic elements (photos, logos, and icons) for internal marketing campaign use. • Researched and presented new ideas for the creative marketing campaign. • Initiated branding and all graphic design strategies for print and web use. • Designed new on-brand visual elements to effectively convey concepts and messaging
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