Sharif Elshinnawi

Designer in Washington, DC, United States

Member since March 9, 2021

Sharif helps startups and brands build experiences founded on purpose. He believes the design of anything begins at the nexus of people and problems. Sharif is empathy-driven and uses principles to inspire and guide his design process. He is attracted to complex problems and works tirelessly towards simplicity and meaningful impact. Sharif has an unhealthy obsession with world football and has traveled across the world to experience matches in person.

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Digital Design

CSI: Numbers That Talk
- Enterprise Design
- Rapid Prototyping
- Product Design
- Product Strategy
- User Research
- Data-informed Visual Design
- Data Visualization
- Responsive Design
- User Testing
- QA Testing
- Design Systems
- Visual Design
- User Experience (UX)
AirVet
- Product Design
- User Research
- User Testing
- QA Testing
- Visual Design
- Mobile UX
- User Experience (UX)
CBS: Better Watching
- Product Design
- Visual Design
- Video Streaming
- Prototyping
- User Research
- Responsive Design
- Mobile UX
- User Experience (UX)
Adobe LiveFyre Studio
A Year In Ethereum
- Product Design
- Product Management
- User Research
- Prototyping
- Visual Design
- QA Testing
- User Experience (UX)
Blockchain Branding: Treum
- Blockchain
- Branding
- Ethereum
- Visual Design
- User Testing
- Web Design
- Print Design

Employment

Design Leader
2015 - PRESENT
Humin
- Led the design and strategy for the first tele-vet app for pets. It has a 5-star app rating.
- Co-founded a fan experience venture in partnership with two NBA teams: Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns. Launched with 80,000 fans.
- Founded the UX Lab at CBS studios to explore how to re-invent the mobile watching experience.
- Helped lead the design and research efforts for LiveFyre, which was acquired by Adobe.
- Designed the first trace and track consumer experience on blockchain for Proctor & Gamble Tampax.
Technologies: Product Strategy, Branding, UX Prototyping, Product Design, Enterprise Design, Mobile Apps, Figma
Experience Director
2018 - 2019
Consensys
- Designed the first blockchain app that tracked the lineage of cotton being used in fem-care products at P&G worldwide.
- Led design explorations to track the lineage of high-value artwork for Sotheby's.
- Led branding efforts for supply chain start-up Treum.io.
- Represented the design team around the world at ETH conferences, where we led product workshops for blockchain startups.
- Designed asset management platform for agriculture and pharma industries.
Technologies: Mobile, Rapid Prototyping, Design Research, Production Management, Product Design, Ethereum
Principal Product Designer
2017 - 2018
Cvent
- Led discovery effort to uncover the biggest support ticket drivers on the six platforms.
- Redesigned the data-tagging system and email design platform.
- Led conceptual explorations to reimagine the user experience of the biggest event management platform in the world.
Technologies: Figma
Experience Lead
2014 - 2015
Adobe
- Led design efforts to reimagine social curation and listening tool.
- Ran customer workshops and synthesized findings in a company-wide brief.
- Designed a new feature that powered social curation streams from all channels into live publications. Clients could quickly define rules for what to save and what to ignore to help organize user-driven content into a Dropbox-like system.
Technologies: Figma
Experience Director
2012 - 2013
CBS
- Founded the Watch Lab where the team would experiment with new tech and experience design for the CBS streaming apps.
- Redesigned CBS home page and integrated new features including "friend ratings" and "MyCBS."
- Redesigned mobile app experience and led user interviews and QA for the build iterations.
Technologies: Sketch, Adobe

Experience

Prototyping12 years
Visual Design12 years
User Experience (UX)12 years
Product Design12 years
Mobile Apps12 years
Design Research10 years
Creative Direction10 years
Product Strategy6 years

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