Atul Pradhananga
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal
Toptal member since November 14, 2022
Atul is a senior product designer with 8+ years of experience in UX, UI, and CRO design. He has designed user-centered and high-impact digital products for various enterprises and innovative startups in healthcare, eCommerce, fintech, data analytics, and SaaS. With a proven track record of leading and executing end-to-end product design, Atul has helped clients define, design, and launch world-class digital products and experiences.
Portfolio
Work Experience
Principal Product Designer and UX Lead
Independent
- Led product design for dozens of projects for MNCs, SaaS, early-stage startups, and everything in between by following a user-centered design approach (UI/UX), intensive design thinking, prototyping, and testing.
- Collaborated with the stakeholders, PMs, and development team throughout the product cycle–from storyboards, user flows, and wireframes to high-fidelity user interfaces and interactive prototypes that bring clarity to complex design problems.
- Facilitated multiple design discovery workshops and strategy sessions with clients to ensure alignment of user needs, technical requirements, and business goals.
- Helped a leading app analytics platform launch a customizable dashboard feature that empowered product teams with fast, contextual, and high-fidelity insights.
- Designed the seller dashboard of a leading eCommerce platform that helped sellers perform end-to-end activities. As a result, the platform doubled its daily active users and increased average user engagement by 50%.
- Redesigned the referral experience for a fintech mobile app to be easily accessible and fun and make referrals their main acquisition channel.
- Led the UI/UX of an eCommerce and recipe app on iOS and watchOS that helped users with easy-to-follow recipes and helpful features like personalized recommendations, grocery lists, conversion scales, and ingredient substitutes.
- Managed the redesign of an eCommerce website for a leading welding and industrial supplier. My efforts included UI/UX design, establishing creative direction, a digital brand refresh, and building a scalable design system.
- Designed a student management platform for a university to streamline, organize, and consolidate all student data, keep enrollment track, manage finance and staff training, and share information between teachers, students, and parents.
Marketing and CRO Designer
RIESS GROUP, LLC.
- Led conversion rate optimization (CRO) initiatives across multiple high-profile B2C eCommerce websites, significantly improving overall performance and user experience.
- Implemented data-driven design solutions using tools such as Google Analytics and VWO, resulting in measurable increases in conversion rates and customer engagement.
- Conducted comprehensive website audits to identify key areas for improvement, tailoring strategies to meet the unique needs of each client's Shopify store.
- Worked closely with the marketing and development teams to develop and execute innovative design concepts that aligned with the client's brand and eCommerce best practices.
Product Designer and CRO Expert
Desertcart
- Led a comprehensive conversion rate optimization (CRO) audit and implemented design improvements across the website, resulting in a 70% increase in overall conversion rates across web and mobile platforms.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to align design strategies with business objectives and improve eCommerce performance.
- Built and maintained a comprehensive design system in Figma, improving design consistency and development efficiency across the organization.
- Conducted user research and A/B testing to optimize key user journeys, including product discovery and checkout processes. We achieved a 35% reduction in cart abandonment rates.
UI/UX and Product Designer
University of New South Wales
- Designed and developed a comprehensive self-service application using Microsoft Power Apps, significantly reducing faculty and staff's administrative workload.
- Conducted extensive user research and usability testing with students and faculty, which resulted in a user-centered design that received highly positive feedback from the university community.
- Worked closely with stakeholders to align the application's design with the university's branding and accessibility guidelines, contributing to strong user adoption and improved overall experience with internal tools.
- Created high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes in Figma and Microsoft PowerApps, enabling seamless integration with the development team and streamlining the implementation process.
Senior Product Designer and UX Consultant
Dogma Group
- Provided a creative direction, set the strategy, and led multiple projects for different B2B/B2C industries, involving user experience, user interface, branding, and marketing campaigns for UK's well-known organizations and most innovative startups.
- Partnered closely with the stakeholders, product managers, engineers, and customer success teams to understand the problem space and used this data to plan and scope project roadmap.
- Built and maintained design systems and documentation that were simple to understand, maintained consistency in design, and helped the entire team to work faster as the company scaled.
- Leveraged quantitative and qualitative data to help inform design improvements and analyze design decisions.
- Facilitated discovery workshops with stakeholders and led the website redesign for UK's leading safety deposit company to be a more modern, self-service, fully customer-centric platform.
- Expanded the design of a customer portal for a financial security company that enabled their clients to manage and track their accounts, make payments, share ownership, and access the rest of the company's services and offerings.
- Led the UX/UI of a patient management system for healthcare professionals that streamlined the entire patient journey–from intelligent scheduling, referral management, patient feedback, intake, and more.
- Designed a CRM platform for a well-known biopharmaceutical company to manage their accounts, track contacts' communication, improve customer engagement, develop long-lasting relationships, and have complete visibility with unified data and timeline.
- Led the UI/UX of an account management app that empowered account managers to identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities, reduce churn, foster client relationships, and track progress using AI recommendations and trends.
- Hired, mentored, and provided career guidance to junior designers and career changers for the ever-evolving design space and digital workplace.
Product Designer
SeeLogic International
- Led the design process for multiple web and mobile app projects for medium to large-scale organizations in healthcare, charity, media, automobile, advertising, transportation, education, financial and manufacturing spaces.
- Oversaw and established the creative direction for Seelogic's brand, user experience, web, and marketing design.
- Conducted a complete UI/UX audit of the website and led the redesign project with the marketing and development team for awareness, acquisition, and activation.
- Designed the end-to-end experience of an advertiser platform that enables publishers to monetize their audience and sell advertisement spaces on their online and offline platforms.
- Collaborated with the marketing and sales teams to devise new ways to tell great stories and provide a delightful experience throughout the customers' journey across our website, landing pages, and other marketing channels.
- Created a design system to better inform our decisions regarding developing and implementing various updates. The goal was to make a cohesive and consistent use of UI components across all platforms.
- Led the UI/UX of an attendee engagement app that gives attendees a 360-degree view of the event, helps them build connections, and provides a platform to engage better during sessions.
- Assisted in delivering an approval management app for a large B2B organization. The app automated the organization's purchase order approval process and streamlined its operations–from purchases to vendor management in a single platform.
- Led the UI/UX of a mobile app for a leading independent charity that enabled staff to capture field data and responses to better understand, measure, and manage their services' effectiveness.
Graphic and User Interface Designer
ACT360
- Collaborated with agile-based design and content teams on concept development and managed the creative direction of various social media marketing and advertising campaigns for multiple national and international brands.
- Crafted brand identities, including a well-rounded brand guidelines book, from discovery to mockups and final delivery.
- Led the website design of Nepal's first digital marketplace for personal loans.
- Designed corporate communications pieces such as press releases, annual reports, and other promotional materials.
- Contributed to the redesign of Honda Nepal's website redesign and development.
- Guided early-stage startups in fitness, FMCG, cybersecurity, hospitality, and healthcare to raise seed funds via investor pitch deck designs.
Co-founder and Creative Director
Technorio
- Crafted the visual direction of the company from the ground up.
- Identified and secured new business opportunities and managed client relationships and project execution.
- Monitored the results of team efforts and proposed actions for the future.
- Worked on the company's online and offline communication, including catalogs, brochures, flyers, and social media.
- Led a team of designers and developers on various internal and client projects.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Marketing and International Business
London Metropolitan University - London, UK
Certifications
UX Management: Strategy and Tactics
Interaction Design Foundation
Google Design Sprint Facilitation
AJ&Smart
Skills
Tools
Figma, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Microsoft Power Apps, Wix, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Sketch
Languages
HTML, CSS
Platforms
WordPress, Shopify, Android, iOS
Industry Expertise
Consumer Products, Creative Tech, Retail & Wholesale, Sales & Marketing
Other
Web Design, Mobile App Design, User Research, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Responsive UI, Web App Design, UI Design, UX Design, Wireframing, User Personas, Branding, Design Systems, Mobile UI, App UI, Prototyping, User Interviews, Product Design, User Journeys, Information Architecture (IA), B2C, B2B, eCommerce UX, eCommerce, Dashboards, Dashboard Design, Enterprise SaaS, Data Visualization, UX Strategy, Websites, Landing Page Design, Mobile Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Visual Design, Web UX, User Flows, Graphic Design, WordPress Design, Mobile UX, Mobile App UI, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Landing Page Optimization, Service Design, Audits, Auditing, UI Audits, Design Leadership, Direct to Consumer (D2C), Divi, Content Management Systems (CMS), Landing Pages, Conversion, Leadership, eCommerce Design, Business to Business (B2B), Annotated Wireframes, Complex Application User Interfaces (UI), Usability, Usability Testing, iOS App Design, Competitive Analysis, Customer Journeys, Brand Identity, UX Research, User Testing, Web UI, Journey Mapping, App Design, App UX, eCommerce UI, SaaS, SaaS Design, Software as a Service (SaaS), UX Audits, Design Thinking, Web UI Design, Website Redesign, UX Wireframes, Web UX Design, Conversion Rate, Accessible Design, Accessibility, Squarespace, Web App UI, Web App UX, Fintech, MVP Design, Layout Design, Framer, Best Practices in Design, UI Components, Copywriting, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Component Libraries, A/B Testing, Style Guides, Design Workshops, Design Strategy, Marketing Design, Atomic Design, Local SEO, Responsive Web Apps, Growth, Agile, UX Analysis, Agency Websites
Experience
- User Research - 6 years
- User Interface (UI) - 6 years
- Mobile App Design - 6 years
- User Experience (UX) - 6 years
- Product Design - 6 years
- Web Design - 6 years
- UX Analysis - 5 years
- SaaS Design - 4 years
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