Shivam Dewan
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Delhi, India
Toptal member since June 15, 2022
Shivam is a seasoned product and design generalist, a mentor, and an entrepreneur who ran his design studio and has worked at big brands worldwide. Over the years, he co-founded two startups, started Zen Space, now an Airbnb experience, and led fundraising campaigns for NGOs, among other outstanding accomplishments. Shivam also enjoys volunteering for pet causes, reading fiction books, and sketching doodles in his free time.
Portfolio
Availailable Personal Loan Made Easier
Upkeep | Society Management Made Easy
Work Experience
Product Designer
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
- Conducted customer interviews and synthesized research, leading to the platform's development.
- Designed the end-to-end semantic search and translator app (from research to wireframing, design explorations, and high-fidelity visual design).
- Conducted the usability testing and stakeholder interviews post the development process (MVP).
Product Design Lead
MedMe Health
- Performed the research initiative for their AI integration, search engine, and flow design.
- Improved their customer-facing scheduling interface, which led to an increase in 30% conversion.
- Worked on AI Scribe, their new product initiative, from the ground up. This product helps pharmacists save a lot of time in documentation, and it has increased revenue for the company.
Design Mentor and Instructor
Designlab Learning
- Mentored aspiring designers across the globe via weekly one-on-one video calls and collaborated on their capstone projects, helping them get industry-ready.
- Delivered over 300+ hours of instruction and one-on-one mentoring.
- Became featured as a design mentor at Springboard with other great worldwide designers.
- Handled UX research, UX design, visual design, and career coaching.
Product Designer Manager
Nintee
- Led the product and design to build tools for the healthcare B2C domain. Built four products internally from zero to one and tested with beta users.
- Managed a team of four people and cross-functional alignment across various stakeholders and investors.
- Handled product work like product requirements documents (PRDs), product spec, qualitative research, and features prioritization.
Senior Product Designer
Being
- Designed the most personalized mental well-being app that makes therapy accessible 24/7.
- Collaborated with product managers to understand the problem and create solutions that help users achieve their goals within business constraints.
- Created low- and high-fidelity designs to improve user satisfaction, increasing the Google Play Store rating from 4.5 to 4.9 and achieving a higher Net Promoter Score (NPS).
Senior UX Designer
Nagarro
- Led the redesign of the Android and iOS apps for a top bank in India with over 100 million users. Handled the end-to-end project execution, from user research to usability testing of high-fidelity designs.
- Facilitated multiple workshops targeting the design sprint, user journey, ideation, and discovery phase.
- Spearheaded the design of B2B and B2C applications for key clients, cooperating with product managers, developers, researchers, and the marketing team.
Product Designer
Inc42 media
- Redesigned the company's website based on extensive qualitative research and the stakeholder website.
- Built the company's style guide and brand identity consisting of typography, iconography, color palette, components, button, and various elements of states.
- Performed usability testing and made iterative changes based on user feedback.
Design Consultant
UNDP
- Acted as a lead design member at the Social Innovation Lab at IIT-Delhi, Department of Design, on Disha—creating employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women in India, a combined project by UNDC and IKEA.
- Contributed to conducting field research, which included visits to the villages and women interviews, to identify opportunities for increasing the number of women entrepreneurs in the rural parts of the country.
- Mapped possible solutions, including designing a whole new brand, Matti, for women to sell handmade products.
- Performed field visits to the site where the complete UX methodology would be implemented with real users and learned the importance of teamwork in design teams.
Co-founder and Product Designer, Branding, and Design Sprint
T D K | The Duo Kids
- Gathered product and design requirements from the clients and coordinated with a team of project managers, visual designers, illustrators, and developers to deliver the final designs.
- Worked on projects for various clients, including Hero Electric, Antariksh Band, Mozocare, Desmania, and many early-stage startups.
- Raised an impact on clients' work by increasing revenue, user engagement, and customer satisfaction.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University - Delhi, India
Certifications
Startup School for Future Founders
Y Combinator
UX Design
Interaction Design Foundation
Skills
Tools
Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Logseq, Miro, FigJam
Platforms
Web, Android, iOS, Figma, Webflow
Industry Expertise
Education Technology (Edtech)
Other
Notion, Visual Design, User Experience (UX), Information Architecture (IA), Wireframing, UI Design, Rapid Prototyping, Web UX Design, Web UI Design, Mobile UX Design, Mobile UI Design, Digital Product Design, User Personas, UX Workshops, Ideation, User Research, Qualitative Research, Product Design, Interaction Design (IxD), User Interface (UI), User Interviews, Mobile App Design, Websites, Data Visualization, UX Design, Web UX, Web Design, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Research, UX Research, Dashboard Design, Early-stage Startups, User Journey Maps, User Validation, UX Strategy, Research Reports, Quantitative Research, Qualitative Reports, UX Wireframes, Ideation Workshops, Workshop Facilitation, Design Workshops, Workshops, User Surveys, Quantitative User Research, Surveys, Mobile Design, Mobile UX, Mobile UI, eCommerce, Edtech Design, Learning Management Systems (LMS), Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Stakeholder Management, Leadership, Team Management, Design Leadership, Design Strategy, Service Design, System Design, User Flows, Design Sprints, Web UI, Interviewing, UI Research, User Journeys, Web App Design, Web App UX, Product Strategy, Product Management, Documentation, Accessibility, Visual Exploration, Ethnographic Studies, Field Research, Design Research, Observation, UX Branding, Copywriting, B2C Marketing, Material Design, Android App Design, Process Flow Design, Redesign, Prototyping, iOS UX Design, Big Data, Stakeholder Interviews, Stakeholder Engagement, Industrial Design, Automation, Mechanical Design, Web Accessibility, Production Management, Communication, App Design, High-end Design, Competition Research, Brainstorming, Wireframe to Product, Consumer Behavior, Branding, Landing Pages, Information Design, Web Dashboards, Enterprise SaaS, Desktop Web Design, Mobile Banking, Event Design, Community, Consumer-facing Product Design, iOS App Design, Loan Design, Design Systems, Consumer Applications, Product-market Fit, Workflow, Enterprise, SaaS
Experience
- Digital Product Design - 8 years
- Wireframing - 8 years
- User Experience (UX) - 8 years
- Mobile UX Design - 6 years
- Information Architecture (IA) - 6 years
- Rapid Prototyping - 6 years
- Visual Design - 5 years
- Figma - 5 years
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