Headline

Product Designer

About

A designer who strongly believes that the success of design directly depends on how successfully it meets the needs of the both the user and the organization that paid for it. I have a keen interest in developing solutions that enhance user experience.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

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openai

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Work experience

Product Design Consultant at Stealth AI Startup, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designing AI powered solutions

Senior Product Designer at Simpl, Dec 2022 - May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos, India, Designed a dashboard product for merchants to help them to monitor, analyse and design strategies for their business Participated in process of defining a product strategy Designed wireframes and conducted usability test at multiple stages of the design Worked on system design with a visual designer Collaborated with product managers, business partners, and developers to help define product requirements and road map

UX Designer at Jumbotail, Jul 2022 - Dec 2022 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed a digital solution to increase the user engagement of customers’ physically shopping at J24 stores Conducted extensive primary and secondary research to gain insights Designed wireframes conducted usability test at multiple stages of design Closely worked with leadership team to define value proposition. This involved determining how product serve needs of target audience and fits into the market

Product Designer at GetMega, Aug 2020 - Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designed the user experience for social real money gaming product Designed system level solutions for SaaS products for teams spanning across growth, security/risk, people operation, data, and human resources Used both quantitative and qualitative data to solve the problem Responsible for user research, information architecture, interaction and visual design across the web and mobile products

Design Intern at ValueLabs, Jun 2019 - Jan 2020 · 8 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Designed internal product for the sales team to create content Planned research, defined research methodology and tried to understand user needs Explored multiple concepts, and evaluated them Provided design solutions to solve user needs and business challenges

Education

Master of design, Industrial and Product Design, National Institute of Design

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Production Engineering, All India Shivaji Memorial Societys College of Engineering, Pune

Public links

akshaynikam.com: https://akshaynikam.com/