Iran

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Design Operations

Amir Saharkhiz

Product Designer | Design System

Portfolio

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Team player

Leadership

Figma

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Working in design system squad in the heart of a big, crowded team.
Reducing the count of components by improving each variant, which causes less confusing and less file memory use.
Refactoring the design system which is used in different products while keeping is consistent.
Preparing efficient design system documentation for other designers and development team to clarify "How to use" and "Principles of components and organs" 
Helping the rest of the designers to create their flows and stories in a way that meet the Design system guidelines.
Delivering each component's specs, layouts and spacing to developers via meetings or records.
Building components which are accessible and easy to use for all our users.

Working on flexible form creation which are legal documents
Being the only designer in an startup environment with rapid agile work load.
Building design system with guidelines for the MVP product.
Planning design and development alignment session on each step of MVP
Creating efficient component for different sizes of screens (responsive design)
Working on dynamic multilingual product
Analyzing the competitors and presenting the outcome to the stakeholders.
Conducting design workshop and presenting ideas to discuss with managers and making proper decisions based on the brainstorm sessions.
Running accessibility test on the mocks

Worked on SaaS, AI, and ML based products and communicated with a team of 2 designers and 8 engineers in an Agile environment.
Implemented an efficient component-based UI kit to improve the design process and advocated for a highly polished customer-centered outcome.
Built strategic UX solutions in order to meet the user's needs through UXR methods.
Analyzed the competitor’s product through benchmarking and presented the outcome to the stakeholders.
Contributed to the hiring process.
Directed design workshop with the team, stackholders, and the other decision makers.

Organized quantitative and qualitative user research to identify the user's pain points and motivations, then presented them to the stakeholders and team.
Implemented the design process by sketching and wireframing, UI design, and rapid prototyping.
Conducted a usability test to recognize the problems and implement the best solutions.
Developed style guides and UI kits based on business brand identity
Delivered the design to the developers.

Advanced the brand identity by creating content on social media platforms and websites.
Assessed the engagement data and identified the trends in customer interaction through creating personas.
Boosted up to 30% of sales through designing a new landing page.
Significantly reduced calls to the support department by implementing a new landing page design.
Helped Business to Understand User’s behavior using Google Analytics data and user feedbacks to collect quantitative and qualitative data.
Oprated online specialized conferences through different platforms.

Defined the brand identity.
Designed content in different fields based on user personas.
Consulted small businesses grew up to 50K on social media in less than a year.
Pitched customers to businesses through strategic content creation and social media marketing.

Amir Saharkhiz🇮🇷