Saad Chaudhry
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Helsinki, Finland
Toptal member since November 19, 2021
Saad is an experienced product designer who has worked hands-on from the beginning to the deep end of diverse projects, leading teams to deliver high user satisfaction products. With over ten years of design experience involving many versatile roles, leadership responsibilities, and a career kickstart from design and code jobs, he has developed an intuitive ability to design with the golden triad of usability, feasibility, and viability in mind.
Portfolio
Single-page App with Gamification
Brand Redesign
Website Design for a SaaS Product
Solution Architecture of a Technical Cloud Framework
Work Experience
Chief Design Officer
Zeffi
- Created and evolved the 3-year product vision on a continuous basis.
- Set company wide UX discovery and research practices.
- Introduced a data-driven approach to product development, including north-star metrics, usability metrics, surveying, and mining data from existing product usage data.
- Designed and implemented a feature prioritization framework that is now at the core of our product development process.
- Acted as the common channel between customers, sales, customer success, and product teams.
Lead Product Designer
ZEF Solutions
- Led Zeffi’s product design since its inception in 2016. Today, Zeffi stands at a 96% user recommendation rate, with 95% of users saying it’s easy to use.
- Designed the new Zeffi brand identity in 2019 from scratch, including colors, typography, design language, visual assets, positioning, values, and imagery.
- Created a developer-friendly handoff system that significantly reduced the traditional handoff overhead.
Mobile Designer and Architect
ZEF
- Developed an Android app to work as a reporting client for Zeffi's classic product.
- Outsourced and looked over the iOS counterpart's development.
- Designed and developed an experimental Android app for exploring new product ideas, which are now part of the new Zeffi product.
Solutions Designer
Bitbar
- Designed custom solutions for mobile quality assurance teams from companies such as Disney, Salesforce, Lyft, FitBit, and Kabam. Worked as the presales technical point of contact in the process.
- Contributed to successfully setting up the first branch office in San Fransisco.
- Collaborated closely with the sales team as the technical member in acquiring new customers.
Product Architect
Bitbar
- Researched, architected, and set the groundwork for integrating a newly emerging opensource mobile app, testing the Appium framework into the company’s platform. Today it’s one of the company’s top offerings.
- Implemented multiple proof-of-concept solutions for testing the best approach.
- Created automation processes successfully in under a month and learned iOS instruments for the job.
Product Designer & Mobile Developer
CIE, Oulu
- Conceptualized, designed, and developed four mobile application stacks that benefit from data crowdsourcing. These applications are geared to study how to leverage crowdsourcing towards environmental issues.
- Set up and developed the back-end server in PHP and the database in MySQL.
- Wrote a REST API to let the apps communicate with the back end.
- Designed all the apps, including everything from concepts to final icons.
Operations Engineer
Ufone
- Ensured the smooth operation of the mobile network servers.
- Self-initiated a project to automate most of the daily repeating tasks and processes in my department, for which I received an excellence award.
- Developed a monitoring dashboard with live graphs and real-time alerts on data that was previously checked periodically and manually.
Education
Master's Degree in Information Systems and Human Computer Interaction
University of Oulu - Oulu, Finland
Skills
Tools
Sketch, InVision, Trello, Miro, Photoshop CC, IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, Xcode, Instruments
Platforms
Figma, Web, Airfocus, Android, iOS
Languages
Java, Bash, PHP, Excel VBA
Other
Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Web App Design, Native Mobile Apps, Interaction Design (IxD), Web App UX, Product Design, UI Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Mobile App Design, User Experience (UX), User Flows, Visual Design, Prototyping, Information Architecture (IA), User Interface (UI), Front-end Design, Web Design, SaaS, Design Systems, UX Design, Web UI, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Mobile Design, B2B, MVP Design, User Testing, Dashboard Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), SaaS Design, Interactive Prototypes, Style Guides, UI Components, Mockups, Product Management, Brand Design, Branding, Product Placement, Brand Positioning, Product Positioning, Solution Design, Gamification, Software as a Service (SaaS), Identity Design, Wireframing, Mobile UX, Mobile UI, Content Creation, Leadership, UX Research, Rapid Prototyping, Remote Devices, Single-page Applications (SPAs), Android SDK, Appium, Java Servlets, Node.js, Macros, User Engagement, Web App UI, UX Audits, User Journeys, No-code Development, Online Tutoring, Coding, Educational Games, Portfolios, Squarespace, Personal Branding, Web Pages, Dynamic Pricing, Landing Page Design, Print, Social Media Design, Print Design, Animation, Data Visualization, Data
Experience
- MVP Design - 9 years
- UX Design - 8 years
- UI Design - 8 years
- Product Design - 8 years
- Design Systems - 6 years
- Visual Design - 6 years
- Dashboard Design - 3 years
- Figma - 3 years
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