Resume

experience

Product Designer

Dec 2022 - present

Berlin, Germany

Pepper is the World’s Largest Shopping Community, Leading design in a cross-functional team, I focus on optimising content display in listings to boost click-outs and enhance user experience and usability. Through strategies like revisiting deal cards, analysing content logic, and considering user engagement metrics, we aim to amplify engagement and improve clickthrough rates. Our primary goal is to optimise content display and logic across listings, simplifying the user experience and leveraging keyword alerts to empower and encourage click-outs.

Led end-to-end UX processes for feature development across iOS, Android, web, and mobile platforms for multiple websites.

Utilised data-driven insights and conducted user interviews to inform empathetic, impactful solutions.

Orchestrated the entire design process, focusing on ideation, prototyping, and iterative refinement.

Contributed to successful feature releases by aligning designs with business goals.

Collaborated with the design system team to ensure a cohesive user experience.

Achieved a 10% increase in click-outs and traffic for the merchant page, based on Metabase data, demonstrating a commitment to measurable improvements in user satisfaction and key metrics.

Senior Product Designer

Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

Tehran - Iran

Zarinpal, the first pioneer payment provider in the country, offers a range of electronic payment services for businesses, leading the way in B2B electronic payments.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams.

Understand, define, and ideate to pinpoint a problem, define success criteria, and devise measurement plans.

Develop personas, wireframes, and prototypes to visualise solutions.

Designed the entire research flow for a cryptocurrency application.

Created scenarios based on user flows and developed questionnaires accordingly.

Led the redesign of the main website, resulting in a 10% improvement in user experience.

Conducted user research to inform usability tests and implemented recommendations from personas, Hotjar, and Google Analytics to enhance usability testing processes.

Product Designer

Ronak

March 2020 - Aug 2021

Tehran - Iran

Redesigned entire application across web, desktop, iOS, and Android platforms, including branding website.

Crafted customised flow for video/voice call feature.

Pioneered unique features in applications.

Developed exclusive UI kit and design system for River project.

Designed multi-theme and multi-language applications.

Created various features including private chat, group chat, video call, and media editor tools.

Designed landing pages and dashboard web pages for diverse products.

UI Designer / UI Developer

Karbar Mehvar

July 2018 - March 2020

Tehran, Iran

SaaS, Introduces and recommends job opportunities.

Frontend Developer for Ashnas SPA and Ashnas admin panel.

Utilised technologies including React, Material Design UI component library, Apollo lib for GraphQL, etc.

Front End Developer

Gaj innovations

May 2018 - July 2018

Tehran - Iran

Publishing provides virtual education for high school and college students.

Designed and implemented a responsive web application

We used Bootstrap and React library

Designed and developed responsive and adaptive websites using React and CSS

Front End Developer

Verna

Dec 2016 - May 2018

Tehran - Iran

Responsible for developing Verna mobile app using React Native

Responsible for developing landing page and dashboard websites (HTML,CSS, JS, React)

Worked on multiple outsource projects using React

Front End Developer

Zarinpal

Jan 2015 - May 2016

Tehran - Iran

Zarinpal, the first pioneer payment provider in the country, offers a range of electronic payment services for businesses, leading the way in B2B electronic payments.

We used Jade template engine (Pug), SCSS and Bootstrap library to develop ZarinPal website

SUMMARY

With nearly a decade in B2C and Fintech, I specialize in front-end development for eCommerce and social community platforms. I bring a strong blend of technical and design skills to create user-centric, high-performance interfaces. My experience spans from concept to launch, allowing me to bridge design and development seamlessly. Working with international teams, I’m driven by new challenges and a commitment to delivering impactful, innovative solutions.

Skills

Research & Analysis

User Research: Usability Testing, User Interviews, Stakeholder Interviews, Surveys, Focus Groups

Data Analysis: A/B Testing, UEQ Research, Task Analysis, Persona Creation, Benchmarking, Competitive Analysis, Jobs to Be Done

User Research: Usability Testing, User Interviews, Stakeholder Interviews, Surveys, Focus Groups

Data Analysis: A/B Testing, UEQ Research, Task Analysis, Persona Creation, Benchmarking, Competitive Analysis, Jobs to Be Done

Design & Prototyping

Wireframing, UI Kit Creation, Prototyping, Accessibility Systems (Material Design, iOS HIG), User Flows, Journey Mapping, Figma, Adobe XD, Zeplin, InVision, Miro

Design Strategy & Execution: Design Thinking, Ideation Workshops, Problem Solving, Design Strategy

Wireframing, UI Kit Creation, Prototyping, Accessibility Systems (Material Design, iOS HIG), User Flows, Journey Mapping, Figma, Adobe XD, Zeplin, InVision, Miro

Design Strategy & Execution: Design Thinking, Ideation Workshops, Problem Solving, Design Strategy

Soft skills

Empathy, Communication, Creativity, Collaboration, Agile Adaptability, Critical Thinking, Time Management, Attention to Detail, Open-mindedness, Stakeholder Management, Resilience

Empathy, Communication, Creativity, Collaboration, Agile Adaptability, Critical Thinking, Time Management, Attention to Detail, Open-mindedness, Stakeholder Management, Resilience

Project Management Tools

Jira, Trello, Project Management

Jira, Trello, Project Management

Technical Skills

Front-end Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React

Training / courses

Design accessibility, UX design leadership,

AI in UX/UI design, Information architecture

Design accessibility, UX design leadership, AI in UX/UI design, Information architecture

Education

Bachelor’s in Software Engineering

Azad University, North Tehran Branch

09/2014 - 12/2018

Tehran - Iran

LANGUAGES

English

Advanced

German

Beginner

Farsi

Native

PUBLICATIONS

UI/UX design, from beginner to pro

I decided to write a series of articles for people who are new to design in software industry, and following them step by step in each article and help them to get familiar with UI/UX desing concepts and make them ready to start working. Here you can find my articles on Medium.

Contact me: shimaghasemi36@gmail.com

Contact me: shimaghasemi36@gmail.com

Contact me: shimaghasemi36@gmail.com