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Delivering Impactful Design and Development

I bring a unique blend of UX/UI expertise and front-end development skills to the table. With a strong foundation in user experience design, I excel at creating wireframes, prototypes, and user flows while leveraging methodologies like design thinking and user research to solve complex problems. My experience extends beyond design, as I am also skilled in Angular development, seamlessly transforming design systems and components into scalable, production-ready code. Whether facilitating design sprints, optimizing user interfaces, or collaborating closely with engineering teams, I ensure that every product I contribute to is not only visually compelling but also technically robust and user-focused.

Areas of Expertise

UX/UI Design and Product Development

Crafting intuitive and visually engaging user interfaces to create seamless experiences across web and mobile platforms. My expertise spans user flows, dashboard design, web and mobile app design (iOS/Android), information architecture (IA), and product design. I specialize in solving complex user problems and addressing market needs through thoughtful design solutions.

Research and Usability Testing

Deeply committed to understanding user needs, I conduct user research, interviews, and usability testing to gather qualitative and quantitative feedback. This iterative approach helps validate assumptions, identify pain points, and refine prototypes, ensuring the final product meets user expectations and business goals.

Dashboard and Information Management Tools

Designing responsive dashboards tailored to visually track and analyze KPIs, metrics, and key data points. These tools empower users with customizable interfaces, enabling them to control and interact with the information they need most.

Personas and User-Centered Design

User personas, informed by interviews and data, drive empathy and strategic direction throughout the design process. These personas provide insights into demographics, goals, and behaviors, ensuring designs align with user needs.

Specialized App Design

Mobile and Tablet Apps (iOS & Android)

Developing apps that adhere to the iOS Human Interface Guidelines and Google Material Design principles. This ensures native, intuitive experiences that reduce development time and deliver faster results to users.

Smartwatch and Wearable Apps

Designing minimal, intuitive interfaces for wearables that provide quick access to essential information and complement mobile apps with features like push notifications.

Educational Games and Gamification

Creating engaging gamified experiences for mobile and web platforms using techniques like rewards, tokens, and leaderboards to enhance user engagement and achieve business outcomes.

Design Systems and Methodologies

Design Systems & Pattern Libraries

Implementing modular, reusable UI components following the “Atomic Design” methodology. This accelerates the design and development process, ensuring scalability and consistency across products.

Design Thinking Methodology

Facilitating cross-functional collaboration to solve complex challenges. The five stages of Design Thinking provide a structured yet flexible framework to ideate, test, and deliver innovative solutions.

Ideation and Prototyping

Prioritizing low-fidelity sketches and rapid prototyping to explore concepts and validate ideas with users early in the process. This approach minimizes risks and focuses efforts on viable solutions.

Additional Expertise

Information Architecture (IA)

Mapping out user flows, screen structures, and necessary UI elements to optimize navigation and user experience. This process identifies gaps and opportunities to improve functionality and usability.

E-Commerce and Sales Psychology

Designing interfaces with ethical sales techniques like scarcity, reciprocity, and social proof to increase conversion rates while maintaining a user-first approach.

Iconography and Illustrations

Developing scalable, cohesive icon sets and illustrations that add personality and visual appeal to products. This enhances user engagement and creates a stronger emotional connection with the product.

User Interface Design (UI)

Polishing the final layer of the product with visually stunning interfaces that amplify the user experience and bring the product to life.