Bilal Mohammed
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Seattle, WA, United States
Toptal member since January 25, 2017
Bilal is a product designer with an engineering mindset and critical design thinking. He loves exercising prototyping skills in his work. He values a data-informed approach, which is quintessential to balancing one's intuition, and Bilal believes in more of a process-driven design approach, which is yet to become commonplace.
Experience
- Product Design - 11 years
- User Stories - 9 years
- Mobile UX - 9 years
- Storytelling - 9 years
- Visual Design - 9 years
- User Experience (UX) - 9 years
- Interactive Prototypes - 6 years
- Figma - 4 years
Portfolio
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Work Experience
Senior UX Designer
Amazon Kindle
- Designed the future of edtech for undergrad students.
- Simplified the process of book creation for authors.
- Championed and advocated for a UX design working model called Design Autopilot.
Co-founder
Product Design Co.
- Established a design venture for promising startups that lacked in product design in the early days of their company.
- Used an engagement model that puts UX analysis at the center of the work we do. Often, design is a difficult thing to measure—we are instrumenting a solution to this.
UX Mentor
Design Lab
- Mentored UI/UX design skills---students can learn with the help of an expert mentor (in this case, me) through our unique online courses. They master the techniques they need to design stunning web and mobile products.
Senior Product Designer
Flipkart
- Built a skilled product design team, as a senior product designer at India’s biggest eCommerce marketplace with more than 80 million users.
- Designed frameworks for discovery, engagement, growth, and retention for Flipkart’s mobile app and desktop experience.
Interaction Designer
Practo
- Helped Practo build their patient facing product among their suite of healthcare products, which soon became India’s go-to health app. I designed the first cut of the Android app as well as the web experience.
UX Intern
IIM Bangalore
- Assisted with various tasks for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Cell, a setup that nurtures early-stage ventures through their journey from start to scale, and enable this through design. Entrepreneurs, mentors, researchers and academicians come together to create an inspiring environment for new ideas and action. Deep interaction between the theory and practice of entrepreneurship brings the best out of both, creating unique synergies. This place has been an active catalyst in the growth of Indian startup eco-system since 2002.
Education
Nanodegree in Product Design
Google - Udacity
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science
PES University - Bangalore, India
Skills
Tools
Zeplin, Principle, Slack, Flinto, Pixate Studio, Sketch, InVision, Jira, Periscope
Platforms
Mobile, Figma, Webflow, iOS, Web, Android, Android TV, Apple TV, Google TV, Xbox, PlayStation
Industry Expertise
Healthcare, Education, Banking & Finance, Food & Beverage, Entertainment & Leisure
Other
Product Design, User Experience (UX), Mobile UX, Visual Design, Interactive Prototypes, Marketplace Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), UI Design, Marketplaces, UX Design, Data Visualization, User Interface (UI), Animated Prototypes, Mobile UX Design, Mobile UI Design, Design Systems, Mobile App Design, Web Design, Healthcare Software, Mobile Design, User Journeys, Web App Design, Pixel Perfect, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Component Libraries, B2B, User Journey Maps, Websites, Web UX Design, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Mobile UI, Financial UX, Brand Guidelines, Agile, User-centered Design (UCD), Responsive Design, UI Pattern Library, Usability, Pitch Decks, UI Prototyping, User Research, User Testing, Branding, Product Discovery, Framer, PDF, B2B Lead Generation, Competitive Analysis, Website Redesign, SEO Audits, Content Management Systems (CMS), Lead Generation, Information Architecture (IA), Cross-cultural Design, Corporate Websites, Data-driven Design, Neumorphic Design, Flat Design, AI Chatbots, Motion Design, Landing Page Design, Website Design, Storytelling, User Stories, Typography, UX Research, Cross-functional Collaboration, Prototyping, Pixate, Design, Product Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Customer Experience, Process Design, Apps, eCommerce, Fintech, Interactive Tools, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Voice UI Design, Voice Interface, Event Planning, Communities, Social, Videos, LiveStream, Community, Delivery, Enterprise, Wireframing, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Samsung
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