Akash Solanki

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Strong advocate for human-centered design.
  • Experience leading design teams and projects.
  • Proficient in both design and coding.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a User Experience and Product Designer with a focus on B2C and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignUser Experience (ux)Community DevelopmentUser Interface DesignResponsive Web DesignWeb Design

Other Skills

Adobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdobe XDBootstrapBusiness Intelligence (BI)CSSCSS FlexboxCommunicationCreative DesignerCross-browser CompatibilityData AnalyticsDesign StrategyDesign SystemsDesign ThinkingFigma (Software)

About

Hello 👋, I'm Akash, an engineer turned into a long-term self-taught User Experience & Product Designer. In fact, I have spent the last few years learning, practicing, and creating User-Centered Experience Design. I started designing when I was 12 years old. At that time, I was in the mode of redesigning machines, vehicles, and daily routine things in my imaginative world; after that, I used to design those ideas on paper. Once I was in college, I was really into web design, but after my internship, I was introduced to User Experience and User Interface Design to design and simplify the experience & efforts of digital users. I started adapting UX to redesign small things like schedules, spending, and college work/projects in my real life. During the process, I learned the importance of UX and how the same is used in the design. And from that point onward, I decided that I would start my career as a designer after completing my studies. I do my best work when exploring new and disparate ideas, designing across disciplines, and helping others do the same. I'm a strong advocate and practitioner of human-centered and socially responsible design. I believe in • Promoting minimalism through ethical design without taking the excitement from the digital experience • Going the extra mile to design for inclusivity • Keeping up to date with the latest technology to design for the future I love • Design Meetups • Design Community Building • Creating Design Resources • All parts of the creative process and learning new skills. I work meticulously and consistently seek to improve myself. I always ensure that user-centricity stays at the heart of an innovation project moving forward. I tend towards doing and testing instead of over-analyzing. I rather start a quick test and iterate on the results. I believe in the good old Pareto principle (20% of the effort produces 80% of the outcome). When I'm not designing, then I code, and I can fill the gap between designers and developers in a team with a solution, and broadening knowledge is the way that enables me to speak the same language as my partners with different backgrounds. Keywords: UX Designer, UI/UX Designer, User Experience Designer, User Interface Designer, UI Designer, Web Designer, UX/UI Designer, UI Designer, UX Design, Product Designer, Designer, UI, UX, Designer, UX Product Designer, Figma, Creative Designer, Visual Design, Design Thinking, Interaction Design, Product Management, SaaS, B2B

Experience

Observe.ai

Senior Product Designer

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • All around AI AI AI
  • Designing Insights & Analytics with AI 🙅
  • Owning NAZCA - Design System
Product DesignDesign SystemsData AnalyticsBusiness Intelligence (BI)User ResearchUser Experience (UX)+1

Bureau, inc.

Product Designer

Apr 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • As a first designer, lead the design by focusing on user experience and product growth.
  • Worked closely with global cross-functional teams, including engineers, product managers, marketers, and sales, to design and develop innovative B2B solutions for the Indian, US, and global markets, positioning the Bureau as a trusted identity decisioning platform.
Usability TestingUser ResearchProduct DesignUser Experience (UX)User Interface DesignDesign Systems+2

Flash tech company

Senior Product Designer

Mar 2021Mar 2022 · 1 yr

  • Built the team and design maturity from scratch to 5 designers. Managed teams of designers and 10+ developers, analysts for Western International Group Projects.
  • Designed, managed, and launched INAAM App (UAE + INDIA), Nesto E-commerce, Wigme.com, and Peoppl serving more than 10M+ customers in the Middle East.
  • Taken design initiatives like weekly Design Activities, Design Audits, User Research, and Design Reviews.
  • Collaborated with CEO, Tech Leads, WIG Stakeholders, and Product & Marketing Managers to build strong manufacturing and branding for Flash Tech and Flash Hire.
  • Created documentation & handbooks for designers for onboarding new joiners, design audit & reports, research, design process, design system, and feature & timelines.
  • Some project management things and learned a lot from leadership to shape my design career. 😌
Interaction DesignUsability TestingUser ResearchResponsive Web DesignProduct DesignUser Experience (UX)+5

Procreator - digital design agency

UI/UX Designer

Nov 2020Feb 2021 · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • ProCreator is a design agency that focuses on establishing an end-to-end product solution; everything from product design to development.
  • Worked closely with product owners and documenting on UX design process for each feature, such as research findings, ideations, information architecture, wireframes, high fidelity designs, and usability testing for Finance Enterprise and E-Commerce Industry.
  • Collaborated with other teams with ease and make sure to bring the best possible solutions and to ensure consistency to users' problems at the cross-section of tech and design.
  • Created pixel-perfect design by following a User-centric design approach and handoff features to the engineering team and testing the designs internally.
  • I was writing blogs & creating branding posts sometimes (:
Responsive Web DesignUser Interface DesignDesign SystemsRapid Prototyping

Fizday design paper

Co-Creator & Co-Editor

Aug 2020Mar 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Fizday Design Paper is Literature of Design (UI, UX, Web). A place where Designers Learn, Understand, Think, and Create for Billions of Users.
Responsive Web DesignUser Experience (UX)User Interface DesignRapid Prototyping

Design masters community

Creator

Apr 2020Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

Community Development

Fizday

Founder

Jan 2020Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka

  • Fizday is a community for anyone who designs. We help you get answers to your toughest design, share knowledge, get inspiration and get in touch with designers.
  • 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
  • Solely responsible for creating, implementing, managing, and designing the Fizday social network website.
  • Responsible for handling and managing code + server maintenance + bugs + customer support.
  • Conducted user research and improved the design experience and improving the information architecture.
  • Responsible for creating and analyzing the wireframes, prototypes, visual designs.
  • Brainstormed, designed, and improved + developed the Mobile and Web user experience design by 20+ iterative processes and conducted user tests.
  • 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁
  • 1100+ registered designers and 5000+ monthly unique visitors.
  • Got 500+ designers registrations in 4 days of launching (Launch Date: April 27th, 2020).
  • Increased traffic by 500% in 7 days of launching (5,000 unique visitors).
  • Implemented and Managed the Fizday company page on Linkedin (1,000+ followers).
  • Invited 500+ designers for participating in 7 days of design challenges.
  • Increased time on page 200%, website traffic 80% and decreased bounce rate of 40%. Redesigned and developed changes using PHP and HTML/CSS.
Web DesignRapid Prototyping

International institute of information technology bangalore

UI/UX Designer

Jul 2019Nov 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

  • Solely responsible for user research, design, and prototype a more approachable and valuable experience ‘Govt. of Karnataka Mental Health e-Manas’ & ‘COVID-19 Jharkhand Migrants Portal’ applications.
  • Conducted user research and improved the design experience with an iterative process. Increased the health practitioners' and patients' satisfaction 75% and perceived findability of information 85% for ‘e-Manas’ for NIMHANS Hospital and all district's mental health hospitals across Karnataka.
  • Designed an admin analytics dashboard and helpdesk portal for visualizing data of over 100,000 Stranded Migrants for ‘Jharkhand Migrant Portal’.
  • Increased page view by 48% and time on page by 58% for E-Health Research Center with website redesigned and coded the changes with HTML/CSS and PHP.
Web DesignResponsive Web DesignUser Experience (UX)User Interface DesignDesign SystemsRapid Prototyping

Colourdrive

Web Designer

May 2018Jun 2018 · 1 mo · Bangalore, Karnataka, India

  • Increased time on page 42%, website traffic 60% and decreased bounce rate of 38%. Redesigned and developed changes using PHP, Bootstrap, JQuery, and HTML/CSS (20,000 monthly users).
  • Increased the conversion and revenue by 80% by applying UX Laws, improving usability and information architecture.
  • Created brand identity logo which helped the company to build new brand value and consistency across the business.
  • Optimized the website loading time and performance from 21s to 8s by removing unwanted code, decreasing redirecting requests, and compressing images.
  • Implemented the latest techniques of cross-browser compatibility and innovations in markup, style, and behaviour.
Web DesignResponsive Web Design

Education

Poornima College of Engineering

B.Tech — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2015Jan 2019

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