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Riya Maan

San Francisco,CA

Summary

Highly-motivated UI/UX Designer with a history of meeting company needs with organized innovative practices and the desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new techniques. Thinking in systems to chart out the possibilities of change that can scale. Prototyping to break down big unknowns into small bets. Weaving ambiguous complexities into simple narratives that hold the power to move audiences.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior UI/UX Designer

Programmers.io
San Francisco, US
09.2023 - Current
  • Collaborated in Agile methodology with clients, front-end and back-end developers, business analysts, project leads, technical leads, and scrum masters to develop dynamic client-side web applications across various areas of business as the team's sole designer.
  • Conducted user interviews & brainstorming sessions to generate innovative, feature-based solutions for internal web-app "Timesheet". Optimized dashboard design & Microsoft Power BI analytics UI for resource management accounting for over 1000 employees and 1500+ clients.
  • Designed commercial SaaS venture website through multiple iterations in 1:1 collaboration with the CEO and collaborated with engineers for development on Microsoft Azure cloud.
  • Leveraged Microsoft Power Apps platform to design seamless user experience and interface for a commercial Timesheet web app integrated within Microsoft Teams using Fluent UI React Northstar framework.
  • Created wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and development hand-off for websites, internal enterprise tools and client web apps using frameworks like React Bootstrap and Quasar. Managed multiple projects simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.

UI/UX Design Mentor

Avocademy,Inc
San Francisco, US
05.2023 - 09.2023
  • Developed and facilitated extensive training modules and mentored 6+ teams, 30+ UX design students (career
    transitionary) to create client-facing websites and mobile apps over 6–10 week sprints. Ensured delivery of high-quality, intuitive designs through constructive feedback and design demos during the end-to-end design process.

UI/UX Designer

Pure Storage,Inc
San Francisco, US
10.2022 - 04.2023
  • Worked in a team of 5 designers to develop 'Sparkle,' a cutting-edge, open-source design system for Pure1 Next web application UI.
  • Increased customers' administrator login security two-fold by incorporating a new feature of two-factor step-up authentication in the Pure 1 Legacy Web App.
  • Evaluated and combined Pure1 Manage web application's existing designs to create the Legacy design system and pattern library with auto-layout components that streamlined the UI design, got rid of redundancy, and allowed the design team to maintain consistency throughout the application across multiple projects. This reduced the communication gap with engineering hand-off and development by 50%.
  • Leveraged qualitative and quantitative data and business analytics to drive design insights and solutions.
  • Established a culture of brainstorming and iterative feedback within the design team by building up design ops and conducting weekly sessions.

UI Designer

Lob.com
San Francisco, US
10.2022 - 12.2022
  • Led comparative analysis, user research, and brainstorming for Lob's rebranding; aiding in the development of a modern, user-centric design system successfully launched on their platform.
  • Individually contributed to shaping web pages, banners,hand illustrations, graphics, and media materials for Lob's marketing website, ensuring a cohesive and compelling online presence.

Product Designer

The Marine Mammal Center
San Francisco, US
04.2022 - 09.2022
  • Led a team of four product designers in collaboration with the world's largest Marine Mammal hospital to design a one-stop tour application resulting in a remarkable 31% increase in their donations that directly support the hospital's critical operations.
  • Planned and conducted two phases of extensive research to enhance the visitor experience within the exhibit by interviewing stakeholders, staff, and more than 40 visitors in person.
  • Engaged in observational research to delve deep into the organizational goals, user behavior patterns, and potential areas of intervention within the exhibit tour. These research methodologies provided invaluable insights that formed the foundation for the team's design interventions.

Communications Designer

California College of the Arts
San Francisco, US
11.2021 - 05.2022
  • Redesigned the student and alumni directory web portal for the Graduate Program, launched successfully on the official CCA website.
  • Launched and managed social media pages, events, and public relations in collaboration with graduate students, alumni, and faculty.

Interaction Designer

DesignerShala
Pune, IN
06.2021 - 09.2021
  • Single-handedly designed and built the interactive website of this Ed-tech Startup including web pages catering to offered services, live online class environment, student success, about the business, blog, shop, FAQs and contact
  • Collaborated in a team of 3 designers using agile methods, using the existing brand system to come up with intuitive, user-centered flows and unique graphic, typography, and color styles that align with the brand.
  • Increased social media followership by 300% (to 12000) on Instagram through engaging media collaterals and impactful copywriting in record time of 3 months.

Product Designer

AUTWN Pvt. Ltd.
Pune, IN
09.2020 - 02.2021
  • Designed the brand system and pitch deck as the only designer on the team. Developed user stories, customer journey maps and personas for product design followed by usability testing to identify areas of improvement in the user experience.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams of engineers and marketing for laying out the product strategy of automated health check kiosks for a post-COVID kickback for businesses.
  • Researched production specifications, costs and manufacturing methods and provided itemized production requirements.

Education

Masters of Design in Interaction Design - Human Computer Interaction

California College of The Art
San Francisco, US
08-2022

Bachelor of Design - Fashion Design

National Institute of Fashion Technology
Mumbai, IN
05-2021

Skills

Design : User Experience Design, Visual Design, Mobile App Design, Web App Design, User Research, Comparative Analysis, Heuristic Evaluation, Journey Mapping Product Strategy, Storyboarding, Wireframing, Interactive Prototyping, Information Architecture, Systems Thinking, Double Diamond Design Process, User Centered Design, Illustration, Usability and Accessibility, QA Testing, Physical Computing, Agile, Scrum

Tools : Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Invision, Principle, Miro, Notion, Jira, Slack, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Trello, Maze, Lookback, Usability Hub, Usertestingcom, Flinto, Procreate, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Power platform, ReactJS, Vuejs

Languages

English
First Language
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
French
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Senior UI/UX Designer

Programmers.io
09.2023 - Current

UI/UX Design Mentor

Avocademy,Inc
05.2023 - 09.2023

UI/UX Designer

Pure Storage,Inc
10.2022 - 04.2023

UI Designer

Lob.com
10.2022 - 12.2022

Product Designer

The Marine Mammal Center
04.2022 - 09.2022

Communications Designer

California College of the Arts
11.2021 - 05.2022

Interaction Designer

DesignerShala
06.2021 - 09.2021

Product Designer

AUTWN Pvt. Ltd.
09.2020 - 02.2021

Masters of Design in Interaction Design - Human Computer Interaction

California College of The Art

Bachelor of Design - Fashion Design

National Institute of Fashion Technology

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