Türkiye

UX Design

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Milad Safarzadeh

Sr. Product Designer

Prototyping

Figma

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Toggl is a SaaS company headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia that ranked amongst the Top 50 Startups in Europe. Toggl Track provides the best time tracking solutions to over 5+ Million users around the globe.

I focus on designing intuitive and innovative solutions for web, mobile, and desktop applications. I communicate with product managers and development teams using well-structured wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes. Also Optimizing existing user interface designs based on the design system.

↑ Achievements:
• Designed the Toggl Track native apps from scratch. A 5 star app on app stores.
• User research, problem definition, prototyping and design of one of the highly requested features of Toggl (Retainers) and handing it over to the mission teams for delivery.
• Migrated designs from Sketch to Figma and built the Design system for the mobile apps with a close collaboration with devs.
• Collaborated closely with Marketing team and branding company to redesign the Web app with the new brand guidelines.
• And many more (User onboarding and self-segmentation, A/B testing initiatives, etc)

With more than 40 million users, Cafe Bazaar is a leading consumer internet company in Iran that runs the first and the most popular smartphone application marketplace and is by far the most popular app store among Iranians, controlling 97% of the market. Cafe Bazaar is owned by Hezardastan Information Technology Development Group. Cafe Bazaar value is estimated at €380 million. Halfway to Unicorn status. I'm currently working on #Divar Product as a UX/UI Designer.

↑ Achievements:
• Collaborated with other teams in the process of Cafe Bazaar branding process and its verticals (Hackathon).

– Combining user data and research to create wire flows and interface mockups.
– Creating interactive prototypes for new product ideas.
– Ensuring the usability and accessibility of the designed solution.
– Optimizing existing user interface designs based on the design system.
– Collaborate in defining, updating and using the UI Component guidelines, including design systems when appropriate.


→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Bazaar

Iran's leading online classified ads service. Divar, One of the most famous Cafe Bazaar's products is the largest and fastest-growing mobile-first general classifieds in Iran with +25 Million MAU and +500k daily listings which I started working in recently. Active listing's value on #Divar is almost 6 percent of Iran's GDP.

↑ Achievements:
• Designed features like Saved search, Stores & Verification that are being used everyday by millions of users. 
• Conducted the very first design critique session in the design chapter.
• Pushed the stuff forward in the process much faster with my prototyping skills.

Resbonsibilities: 
– Creating interactive prototypes for new product ideas.
– Ensuring the usability and accessibility of the designed solution.
– Optimizing existing user interface designs based on the design system.
– Collaborate in defining, updating and using the UI Component guidelines, including design systems when appropriate.

I was responsible for defining the release process and coordinating all of the activities required to bring the product to the market for IranServer's client portal.

Snapp is the largest and fastest growing e-hailing app in the Middle East, Known as Iranian Uber from Tehran. Snapp is seizing its chance to become the leading local player with 20 million customers and 700,000+ drivers.

• Main Responsibility:
I've been working remotely as a part-time designer helping Snapp tech team design their tech career landing pages based on their branding identity and visual standards.

– Responsible for the visual UI design and overall look and feel of career landing pages.
– Delivering responsive design that fit each user group needs, providing assets and resources for front-end developers.
 – Transforming wireframes and insights into interfaces that meet best-in-class visual standards.

Remote– We are the tech buddy for ambitious founders who need a trusted technical team beside them so they can focus on customer development, pivots, strategy and marketing.

Remote Part-time – GreenHost IVS deploy proper solutions that fit your business by offering Cloud hosting solutions, Web & Mobile Applications, Digital Marketing, and online integrative services.

• Main Responsibilities:
– Designing User Interfaces for web & mobile.
– Designing & developing iOS mobile applications.
– UX Consultation

Some iOS apps developed by me at GreenHost IVS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/developer/greenhost-ivs/id1070356036

http://greenhost.com

GreenWeb Co Ltd. is one the largest & Well-Known IT companies in Khorasan Province (Iran), established it's activities in 1990, with the aim of developing new services of Information Technology, Including Web Design & Development, Digital Marketing, Web & Cloud hosting services to promote Businesses on the World Wide Web.

↑ Achievements:
During the past 5+ years, I could push the company toward using the best web design & development tools and a better process in the design department. I pushed the company to initiate small UX efforts in the past years to improve their Corporate UX Maturity and move on the the next stages of the UXMM. I Conceptualized original ideas that brought simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks. I Executed all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off.

• Main responsibilities:
– Executing interaction design and delivering production-ready visual designs.
– Creating user interfaces and user experiences across desktop and mobile.
– Developing and maintaining design wireframes (basic mock-ups of applications), flow diagrams,
prototype, and specifications.
– Conducting competitive analyses of other websites.
– Taking part in the conceptual development and design of the other products of the company.
– Creating Measurement plan, auditing existing analytics implementations, creating conversion
funnels, reports and implementing the best web analytics practices for the company's products.
– Building and customizing Google Analytics and Tag Manager implementations.
– Running A/B Tests, remote and on-site usability tests to spot the pain points of the products.

IranServer is in one of the top web hosting providers in Iran. Serving more than 5000+ businesses and has over 100,000+ MAU. IranServer provides reliable, scalable and affordable web hosting services that enable Organizations, small and medium-size companies to successfully grow their businesses.

↑ In the past 4+ years, I have redesigned & optimized the client's portal (User by 100,000 users/month) and improved the overall User Experience of the website. I have also optimized the conversion rates, Reduced Bounce Rate and improved engagement rate. In the latest survey from 1000 Customers of IranServer, Tangibles, UX and Usability score rated the highest!

• Main responsibilities:
– Creating user interfaces and user experiences across desktop and mobile.
- Defined KPIs for multi-platform products, set targeted goals in Google Analytics, and monitored the impact of new features and improvements on the business through structured GA events.
– Creating Measurement plan, auditing existing analytics implementations, creating conversion
funnels, reports and implementing the best web analytics practices for the company's products.
– Improving Client's Portal and spotting the bottlenecks and pain points and improve them.

Toos Ashena Co. is the functioning core of Ashena Group Co. in Mashhad. one of the leading companies in IT and ICT in Iran & MENA region.

• Main Responsibility:
Collaborating on user experience planning with the team and Conceptualizing original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks. I have redesigned dashboards of their SaaS software.

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✓ Acquired in 2018 by Dotformatics
★ Winner of the Iran Web Festival Award for The Best News Aggregator
★ Three times nominee of the Iran Web Festival Award for The Best News Aggregator
★ Featured Chrome App in Chrome store (News Reader Category)

- Designing web pages and it's interface based on client's requirements for web and mobile
- Gathering feedback from clients and iterating on designs
- Collaborating with Frontend team to make sure we're implementing the design properly

Milad Safarzadeh🇹🇷