Ritika Sharma
Verified Expert in Design
UX/UI Designer
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal member since January 13, 2022
Ritika is a UX designer at Amazon and a senior product designer at Toptal with over eight years of experience in the design field. She has worked in diverse teams of designers, developers, and managers for Big Tech and startups. With a master's in UX design, she's an expert in creating user-centric products. A detail-oriented UX professional, Ritika enjoys solving complex problems while meeting user and business needs through her interdisciplinary design, research, and management skills.
Work Experience
UX Designer
Amazon.com
- Designed the brand guidelines and design library for Amazon GFT from scratch to implementation.
- Conducted design workshops and a UX handbook for the team to understand UX processes.
- Managed junior designers throughout their design journey.
UI/UX Designer for an International Student Web Service
World Education Services, Inc.
- Designed a new end-to-end experience for signing up, logging in, and being directed through the website while keeping client constraints and business goals in mind.
- Created illustrations for the client to be implemented in phase two of the designs.
- Wrote marketing and promotional posts to help boost engagement.
- Broke down the current experience into smaller chunks, making it easy for users to navigate through the website.
Product Design Consultant
Deloitte
- Contributed to the interface design for a company focusing on bail funds to expedite the process of providing bail money to innocents.
- Provided 200% more products to the storage unit company than initially requested in the short term.
- Assisted in creating a DesignOps guide for designers at Deloitte to use for their projects.
UX Designer
Deloitte
- Led the end-to-end UX design and research process for a leading Swiss banking institution and helped redesign their user experiences, which increased user engagement by 60%.
- Conducted market and competitor research for an international multi-level marketing company. Created archetypes, personas, sitemaps, and task flows for two sets of user groups. Prioritized the experiences that would drive maximum value and impact.
- Created user journeys that helped develop an experience that analyses and visually represents textual data to easily track the success of important metrics. Created dashboards for the company's employees to keep track of the website visitors.
- Acted as a UI/UX designer for a major American multinational oil and gas corporation. Designed the user experiences that increased the efficiency of warehouse operators by 50%.
Product Designer
AR Engineering
- Played the key role in ideating, iterating, and prototyping both as the sole designer and within a larger team communicating effectively across teams, regions, and timezones.
- Managed a cross-functional, geographically diverse team to ideate, research, iterate, prototype, and solve complex business problems for clients in the chemical industry.
- Led walkthroughs with project stakeholders to set expectations and milestones for the design team. Revamped the company's entire website and increased the click rates by 83%.
Product Designer
Elemeno Kids
- Strategized, ideated, and developed a complete product from scratch through planning and delivering product designs within the allotted budget and timeline. Analyzed and troubleshot product issues and constraints on time.
- Conducted user and market research, led the ideation based on the user's pain points, presented design ideas and methodologies with the multidisciplinary team, and implemented feedback.
- Analyzed potential risks, developed effective mitigation plans, evaluated user experience to affect strategy and roadmaps, translated customer needs to features, and managed the product development and implementation activities.
Skills
Tools
Adobe, Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, Figma, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Wix, InVision, Sketch, Tableau
Platforms
iOS, Web, Android, WordPress, Webflow, Shopify
Industry Expertise
Retail & Wholesale, Consumer Products, Marketing, Healthcare, Automotive
Other
Tablet UI, Tablet UX, Prototyping, Web App Design, UI Design, Web Design, UX Design, Web App UI, Web App UX, User Interface (UI), Wireframing, Mobile UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Presentation Design, Product Design, UX Strategy, UX Review, UX Flows, Web Applications, User Stories, Dashboard Design, Visual Design, Pitch Decks, Mobile Design, User Experience (UX), Mobile UI, Mobile App Design, Branding, User Flows, Mobile App UI, Mobile UX, App Design, Usability Testing, UX Research, UI Components, MVP Design, Landing Page Design, Graphic Design, Design Systems, Mockups, UX Wireframes, Minimal UI, Mobile Apps, Layout, User-centered Design (UCD), Information Architecture (IA), B2B, Presentations, Mobile Prototypes, eCommerce, Brand Design, User Testing, Personas, Illustration, Digital Design, Digital Marketing Design, Marketing Design, Web UI, Web UX, Collateral Design, Dashboards, B2C, Interaction Design (IxD), Marketplaces, Marketplace Design, Agile, Data-driven Design, Websites, Web UI Design, Logo Design, UX Design, Website Audits, Heuristics, Rapid Prototyping, User Research, Validated User Research, Quantitative User Research, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Remote User Testing, User Validation Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Accessibility, Unmoderated Remote Usability Testing, Heuristic Evaluation, Heuristic Analysis, User Journey Maps, Public Transportation, Responsive Web Apps, Beauty Products, Email Design, Workshops, Strategic Planning, Competitive Analysis, Discovery Workshops, Journey Mapping, System Design, Web & Mobile Applications, eCommerce UX, eCommerce UI, iOS App Design, Analysis, Web Video, User Journeys, Exercise & Gyms, App UI, Style Guides, Responsive UI, Packaging, Brand Guidelines, Corporate Branding, Social Media Marketing (SMM), Component Libraries, Web Usability, Mobile eCommerce, Direct to Consumer (D2C), Banner Design, Online Banners, Infographics, Pitch Deck Consultant, Motion Graphics, Layout Design, Tables, Interactive UI, Finance, Animated Interactions, Fintech, Microcopy, Task Management, Organization, Time Tracking, Time Management, Nutrition & Supplements, Videos, App Store, SaaS Design, Web Portals, Creative Direction, Data Visualization, Gamification, No-code Development, Business Intelligence (BI), Marketing Technology (MarTech), Copywriting, Content-first Design & Development, AI Design, Image Generation
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