Shivram Mahendran
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
New York, NY, United States
Toptal member since February 26, 2020
Shivram is an award-winning product, visual, and experience designer with a background in business. His interests nudge towards building products for fintech and next-gen technologies like augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. Shivram has worked with companies like HP, UPDESK, Aputure, Versace Home, Borosil, and Dan Lok Media. He excels at breaking down business problems and crafting user-centered product solutions.
Experience
- Presentation Design - 10 years
- Branding - 10 years
- Visual Design - 7 years
- Digital Product Design - 5 years
- Virtual Reality (VR) - 5 years
- SaaS Design - 4 years
- UX Design - 4 years
- UI Design - 4 years
Portfolio
Work Experience
Principal Designer
Geometrid
- Built a brand identity and guidelines, explainer video, 3D model, website illustrations, and miscellaneous design assets to assist visuals of the brand.
- Designed a website to convey the product features and information in a succinct package.
- Created multiple iterations of the web product from the initial MVP to evolution based on the product direction and user feedback.
Founder
Latice
- Led a team of two to design a companion native mobile app for HP in-store sales staff to assist store walk-ins better and to self educate about HP products.
- Designed a web app for Savage & Palmer, a leading outsourced business solutions provider, that helps SMEs understand their company standing better by providing an easy-to-digest KPI visualization.
- Designed a B2B eCommerce platform and a B2C shopping experience product for Hennep in the marijuana industry.
- Designed an identity system and web platform/app for Augury Research, Blaze Finance, Savage & Palmer (Brego), and Quax Australia in the accounting and fintech space.
- Designed and developed a filmmaking contest website for Aputure called "Light this Location" for amateur filmmakers worldwide.
- Designed a website for Going to School, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded NGO that helps teach teen kids in rural parts of India to learn essential life lessons.
- Formulated product strategies and designs for WHO, Ambry Genetics, and Thyrocare in the healthcare space.
- Designed an identity system and website for Geometrid, a Singapore-based construction tech startup that is a part of the Microsoft Accelerator.
- Led a team of nine to design and ship furniture 3D models for Overstock, Wayfair, and Updesk.
- Led a team of three internationally and coordinated with dev teams nationally to deliver high-end websites and digital products, including Geometrid, Interprint India, and a material-sourcing web app for Aqsit.
Product Designer
Ambry Genetics Corporation
- Set up a coherent design system that spans over six different products, each with its identity.
- Redesigned an archaic product with established design fundamentals, principles, and patterns to increase user flow completion rates on all verticals by 10-45%.
- Introduced new features to the product that increased time spent on product and product engagement by almost 30%.
Design Lead
Andrew Koudijs [Toptal Projects]
- Designed an identity system for the Hennep tech. The identity system was created to be used instead of their marketing approach.
- Made design of a B2B2C eCommerce platform that facilitates order handling and inventory management between cannabis manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers.
- Designed a B2C retail in-store ordering app that adheres to state-by-state cannabis sale restrictions and laws.
Co-founder
Zeo VR
- Co-founded a bleeding-edge, procedurally generated multiplayer WebVR platform that lets users from any device connect to the metaverse by sharing a single URL.
- Worked on product design, product management, user acquisition, business strategy, business development, 3D asset creation, and marketing.
- Set up a 3D render farm for Blender with Cycles on Google Cloud console servers.
Education
Master's Degree in Software Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology - Rochester, NY, USA
Master's Degree in Product Design
Istituto Marangoni - Milan, Italy
Diploma in Design Exploration
Istituto Marangoni - Milan, Italy
Bachelor's Degree in Business Studies
Lancaster University - Lancaster, England
Certifications
Layouts Certification Level 2
Webflow
Layouts Certification Level 1
Webflow
Webflow 101
Webflow
Agile Methodologies
Adobe XD
Adobe Photoshop
Intro to Java
Codeacademy
Skills
Tools
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Adobe InDesign, Manufacturing, Blender, After Effects CC, Zapier, Adobe After Effects, GitHub, Photoshop CC
Platforms
Figma, Web, Android, WordPress, Mobile, Webflow, iOS
Industry Expertise
Real Estate, Logistics, Technology, Creative Tech
Languages
Python
Other
SaaS Design, B2B, Landing Page Design, Digital Product Design, User Interface (UI), Business Strategy, User Experience (UX), Responsive Web Design (RWD), UX Design, 3D, Prototyping, User Testing, Logo Design, Graphic Design, Packaging, Presentation Design, Pitch Decks, User Research, Data Visualization, Visual Design, Product Strategy, Creative Strategy, Product Design, Fintech, High-fidelity Prototypes, UI Design, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Product Management, Marketplaces, App UI, App UX, Design Guidelines, Mobile App Design, Information Architecture (IA), Usability, Gamification, User Flows, Mobile UX, App Design, Native Mobile Apps, SaaS, Enterprise, Finance, Finance Reports, Accounts, Accounting, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Analysis, Accounting Systems, WebApp, UX Flows, Branding, Financial Accounting, Business Management, Account Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Dashboards, Dashboard Design, Modular Design, Strategy, Web Design, Project Management, Design Systems, Interior Design Mockups, Platforms, Dynamic Websites, Responsive Web Apps, Grid Systems, Printing Press, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), System UI, Wireframing, Tally ERP, Resource Management, Web Dashboards, Asset Management, Print, SAP ERP, Digital Resources, WebVR, VR Interfaces, Extended Reality (XR), Consumer Branding, 3D Modeling, Interior 3D Modeling, 3D Games, Cross-platform UX, Website Redesign, Web Programming, Software Architecture, User Requirements, Design Patterns, User Personas, Design Thinking, Responsive Design, Medtech, Inventory Management, Material Sourcing
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