Ashish Dhakal
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Kathmandu, Central Development Region, Nepal
Toptal member since September 17, 2022
Ashish is an experienced product designer with a passion for crafting meaningful user experiences. With expertise spanning the legal, logistics, and healthcare domains, Ashish has a knack for delivering creative solutions that seamlessly blend with business objectives. He thrives on creating top-notch CRM applications, intuitive SaaS products, and cutting-edge eCommerce and AR/VR solutions while putting the user front and center.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Design Lead
Intuji
- Trained designers on user experience and user testing.
- Delivered six design projects to top clients in the manufacturing B2B industry.
- Drove user research to uncover insights that shaped impactful design decisions.
- Created innovative design models to boost sales and client engagement.
- Conducted usability tests to refine experiences and address user pain points.
- Managed resources and delegated tasks to keep the team productive and focused.
- Bridged cross-functional teams to align designs with user and business needs.
- Introduced a structured design process and successfully applied it to sprints.
Senior Product Designer
GlobalyHub
- Designed the mobile app for users connected to the product, which helps them easily manage and create tasks, SMS, and emails, and get updated with their CRM features.
- Created personas and conducted user research to help the product team enhance the user experience for mobile and web apps.
- Designed automation features to save users time when writing emails, creating tasks, and many other tools along with status updates.
- Introduced a UX monitoring tool to the product. It helped the product team closely monitor app performance and user experience issues, allowing the design team to analyze actual user behavior.
- Created a system for the application to help designers and developers easily obtain a single source of true design assets, including colors, typography, icons, system elements, and web and mobile UI components.
- Mentored medium, junior, and intern designers by providing sessions on visual design and user experience.
- Conducted boot camp sessions for students on product design, UX foundations, and design systems.
UX/UI Designer
Paracosma Nepal Pvt. Ltd.
- Collaborated with the marketing team to create the design content for blogs, websites, and seminars.
- Conducted UX research and interviews to design the AR mobile app for 3D assets.
- Created user personas and conducted the definition phase of the AR mobile app to improve the user experience.
- Delivered the design for the VR game team and assisted in the creation of 2D assets for game development.
Web Designer
Coredreams
- Designed a web app for fleet management software that helps organizations control and manage fleets in their location.
- Build the brand identity guidelines and created the illustrations and packaging designs.
- Delivered responsive design for the existing system aligning with engineers.
- Improved communication skills by taking surveys, personal meetings, and interviews with clients.
Graphic Designer
Parichay Advertising
- Designed the advertised projects of various clients and handled the company's social media pages with graphic design.
- Built and organized the graphic assets for vendors and scaled these with the sales team.
- Created and managed a website for the company using WordPress and managed the design accordingly.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Leeds Becket University - Leeds, United Kingdom
Bachelor's Degree (Honors) in Computer Science
University of Portsmouth - Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Certifications
Visual Elements of User Interface Design
Coursera (California Institute of the Arts)
Skills
Tools
Sketch, FigJam, Hotjar, Jira, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Balsamiq, Slack
Platforms
Figma, iOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Languages
HTML, CSS
Other
Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Dashboard Design, User Research, Mobile App Design, Wireframe to Product, Design Systems, User Interface (UI), Web App Design, High-fidelity Prototypes, Low-fidelity Mockups, High-fidelity Mockups, Visual Design, UI Design, Product Design, UI Components, Landing Page Design, MVP Design, Mockups, Landing Pages, Prototyping, Design Ops, User Experience (UX), Wireframing, User Testing, Design Sprints, Agency Websites, Visual Identity, Mobile Design, UX Design, Interaction Design (IxD), Information Architecture (IA), Websites, Layout, Sitemaps, UI Prototyping, Web Dashboards, Tablet Design, Mobile UI Design, System Design, Web App UX, Web App UI, Web Application Design, Bootstrap, UX Wireframes, User Flows, Branding, Leadership, Design Leadership, User Validation, User Validation Testing, Social Networks, eCommerce Design, UX Flows, Data Visualization, Concept Testing, B2B, SaaS, Software Engineering, Programming, Storybook, eCommerce UX, Mobile UX Design, UX Research, UX Prototyping, Mobile UI, Desktop Web Design, User Interviews, Dashboards, Travel, Email Template Design, Navigation Redesign, Iconography, User Journey Maps, Usability Testing, iOS UX Design, Tailwind CSS, Geographic Information Systems, ClickUp, Mind Mapping
Experience
- User Research - 6 years
- User Interface (UI) - 6 years
- Wireframe to Product - 5 years
- Web Dashboards - 5 years
- Dashboard Design - 5 years
- Desktop Web Design - 5 years
- Mobile App Design - 5 years
- Figma - 5 years
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