India

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Motion Design

Product Design

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Anish Hirlekar

Product Design Specialist

Case studies

Illustrations

Instagram

Product strategy

Prototyping

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

Communication

Organisation skills

Leadership

Design systems

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

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

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

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

Design career path

Expertly navigating through the entire product development lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams to brainstorm, design, and implement impactful features.

Few Impactful Feature Releases:
- UPI Withdrawals: Achieved over 95% reduction in withdrawal time, from 5-6 minutes to just 4-5 seconds

- Deposit Offers: Boosted avail rate by 226% and saw a 5% uplift in Paid Contest Joins (PCJ)

- Verification Revamp: Increased Playstore users by 14.26% with the Aadhar Lite method, and new depositors by 7.84%, leading to a 1.57% uplift in PCJs

- Quick Checkout: Reduced payment time by 2%, enhancing user experience

- SPIN Feature: Currently solving for ₹150+ Cr problem

- GST and TDS Changes: Successfully implemented strategic updates to comply with regulatory requirements

- Playstore App Release: Launched the #1 app on the Playstore upon release

Additional Contributions:
- Managing Dream11's Dribbble account, enriching the design system, and boosting brand identity to enhance social media presence

- Known for infusing user delight through micro-interactions, significantly driving user engagement across payment and CX flows

Key responsibilities:

- Mood boards, design direction, and visual language setting
- Icons and illustrations creation
- Design system and style guide development
- Creating delightful user experiences through micro-interactions

Project 1: Kotak Securities (Fintech - Mobile App) 
- Sole UI designer responsible for complete mobile app makeover
Led design direction, mood boards, and design language establishment
- Developed a custom design system and finalized icons and illustrations
- Implemented a dark theme for the app
- Achieved positive stakeholder feedback and user acceptance through successful user tests

Project 2: SEWN (European Coffee Manufacturing and Distribution - Web and Mobile)
- Overlooked project and addressed design issues
- Enhanced user experience with impactful interactions and micro-interactions

- Making different kinds of websites like e-commerce, health, blog sites etc.
- Here we had to design full websites from the scratch where we were only given a domain name. 
- I designed hybrid websites ( combination of e-commerce + blog ) during this period. 
- I also took other branding and UI work during this period which can be found on my bechance and 
   dribbble profiles.

- Making social media posts daily for domain called health.online.
- We managed to cross over 50K organic supporters based on clean designs and strong medical 
   content.
- Making Pinterest posts every day based on different health topics.
   I also did logo designing, poster designing, print design during this period of time.

- Worked on various domains like Talk.to, Flock (chat applications), Ringo ( international Calling App), Kapow ( gaming App).

Roles and responsibilities
- SDLC, writing test cases and flows
- Manual testing
- Server side testing
- UI testing
- Website testing
- end-to-end app testing on different platforms like ios, android, windows, web, etc.

Anish Hirlekar🇮🇳

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