Pakistan

Muhammad Junaid

Product Designer

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

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

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

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

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Talk to other immigrants about the nuances and challenges of working in the tech industry.

Being an immigrant in tech

Keeping your sanity, career growth and job satisfaction.

Surviving a merger or acquisition

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

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

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

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

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

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

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

Presenting your work with impact

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

Working cross-functionally

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

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

What are design systems and how to work with them?

Building successful design systems

- Led the design and creation of multiple high-performing marketing landing pages, resulting in a significant boost in conversion rates for the University of Canada West.
- Pioneered the optimization of the university's visual communication, enhancing its brand perception and visibility in the digital space.
- Implemented A/B testing for landing pages, refining key elements to maximize user engagement and further increase conversions.
- Enhanced visual hierarchy in the design process, leading to improved readability and a more intuitive user journey, which increased the number of inquiries and sign-ups.
- Initiated a comprehensive analysis of user behavior on the landing pages, using the insights to fine-tune the designs and layout, thereby augmenting user interaction and conversions.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with the marketing team to align the landing pages with ongoing marketing campaigns, ensuring a cohesive and efficient approach that heightened campaign success rates.
- Tracked and analyzed key performance indicators, making necessary adjustments and updates to the landing pages, which led to the consistent growth in user engagement and lead generation.

- Spearheaded a comprehensive audit and in-depth research of the University of Tulsa's existing website, uncovering key areas for optimization and performance enhancement.
- Conducted an insightful heuristic analysis that facilitated a better understanding of the user experience, driving the direction of the site's redesign.
- Undertook a competitive mapping initiative, enabling us to strategically position the university's online presence within the educational sector's digital landscape.
- Orchestrated the content architecture, providing a seamless, user-friendly navigation experience that substantially increased the website's usability and engagement rate.
- Streamlined user flows, effectively enhancing the intuitiveness of the site, reducing bounce rates, and increasing session durations.
- Created detailed wireframes that served as the blueprint for the new website design, ensuring each page was optimized for user engagement and interaction.
- Curated an inspiring mood board that guided the website's aesthetics, helping the team maintain a consistent and visually appealing design language.
- Designed a fresh and user-centric UI, successfully improving the look and feel of the website and boosting the overall user experience, reflected in higher user satisfaction ratings.

CroJungle offers fresh take on design that’s cutting through the chaos. Imagine if you could have a full deck of UX/UI talent, all synced up and ready to roll, for what you’d pay a single designer? Forget the freelancer flake-outs and the old-school agency drag. Think of it as your design team on tap – kind of like Netflix, but for knocking out stellar designs. Cool, right?

It’s not just us saying it; big names are on board, and they’re not looking back. It’s the NEW smart play!
You get to scale your creativity without the overheads, and you can hit pause whenever. Flexibility with a capital ‘F’.

- Kicked off with product acceleration, where we needed to validate four product ideas for Kraft Heinz, starting with discovery and data mapping.
- Built a mini-sprint to quickly develop the product from scratch, test, and validate it.
- Ideated and formulated each product's business and product end through in-depth mapping, Jobs-to-be-done mapping, and other frameworks.
- Did extensive competitive analysis for each product to map all the available solutions to our problems.
- Crafted user flows and low-fidelity wireframes for quick visual ideation.
- Created mid-fidelity wireframes and prototyped them for testing.
- Interviewed users to gather qualitative data about the solution and mapped all the available data in Typeform.
- Based on the available data collected, I iterated the products to the final versions and created the high-fidelity UI design for the products.
- Conducted multiple rounds of testing to gather different data types to validate our assumptions and ran MVT to formulate the final MVP.

BCG was looking for a designer to help us improve some dashboards they had in Tableau.
These data visualizations were aimed to improve the existing dashboard's usability & flows, that populated various crucial corporate data to help stakeholder take better and well-informed decisions.

- Led the design part of the discovery to help capture and map the concept of the platform. Helped to carve out the MVP and prioritize functionalities.
-Conducted user and market research to create personas and collect data for better positioning the brand and validating the platform.
-Helped with user experience design, including personas, user flows, low-fi wireframes, and mid-fi wireframes.
-Crafted the Gameface brand identity design, which included designing their logo and defining their typeface, color scheme, and basic social media appearance.
-Designed a high-fidelity user interface, including converting the wireframes to high fidelity, creating visuals and illustrations, and setting up a design system.
-Created social media posts and banners that were used across various platforms and campaigns.
-Constructed dashboards for stats and player profiles, which included brainstorming with stakeholders, wireframing and experimenting with data types, and visualizing the data in high-fidelity design.

For the past seven years, Muhammad has been helping customer-focused companies increase sales and reduce costs through UX strategy and design. He has worked with companies around the globe to improve the user experience of websites, apps, and SaaS. In today's experience economy, successful businesses gain tremendous competitive advantage by providing exceptional user experience. This is Muhammad's specialty.

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Product Context:
BmoreRaw is a SaaS application that runs on the fuel of truth. It helps telemarketing companies find their product's market fit through telemarketing. The app uses advanced AI functionalities to capture real-time customer feedback and then visualizes the data providing qualitative and quantitative analysis.

The Challenge:
To vastly improve upon the traditional telemarketing strategy that often has a reputation for poor user experience, and enhance this with functionalities that instantly capture the user's feedback and allows the telemarketer to complete many other tasks on the go.

Solution:
All challenges were met and surpassed with an exciting new UX and architecture of the overall application. The telemarketing cockpit is designed so that users don't need to go outside the screen to complete any tasks.

Services:
• User and market research
• Low and high fidelity prototypes
• User experience design
• User interface design
• Landing page design
• Basic brand identity
• Creative direction
• Front end development

Deliverables:
• User flow design
• Low fidelity wireframes
• High fidelity wireframes
• UI designs
• Landing page

Product Overview:
Carnaan aims to make the leasing industry digital by enabling the user to lease their dream car through their mobile application.

Challenge:
A major challenge was the long and hectic verification processes.

Solution:
Create a seamless and user-friendly process. I helped Carnaan define consistent brand identity and create a user interface for their web and mobile application.

Services:
• Basic brand identity design
• User interface design
• User experience design
• Art direction

Deliverables:
• User flow
• Low fidelity wireframes
• High fidelity wireframes
• Mobile application user interface design
• Web application user interface design
• Assets

Product Context:
TRON is an online web platform that lets users play the lottery using cryptocurrency.

The Challenge:
Create a modern design with the look and feel of blockchain-style visuals. The main challenge was to compile complex processes into simple controls and showcase a large amount of data within a small space.

Solution:
I helped them achieve a look they loved and use the proper controls to simplify complex functions. Data visualization played an essential part in this project to get the client the product design they wanted and to clarify the scope of the project.

Services:
• User and market research
• Low and high fidelity prototype
• User experience design
• User interface design
• Landing page design
• Basic brand identity
• Creative direction
• Front-end development

Deliverables:
• User flow design
• Low fidelity wireframes
• High fidelity wireframes
• UI designs

Product Overview:
Rectangle is an Instagram post-management tool. It helps content creators and Instagram users schedule their posts and manage all from one place.

Services:
• User interface design
• User experience design
• Art direction

Deliverables
• Website design
• Web app user interface design
• Assets

Softintex Studio is a multidisciplinary creative studio at the intersection of art, design, and technology. Our goal is to deliver amazing experiences that solve problems and build strategic value for brands, tech, entertainment, arts & culture.

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