Surja Sen Das Raj, Designer in Toronto, ON, Canada
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Surja Sen Das Raj

Verified Expert  in Design

Designer

Location
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toptal Member Since
April 13, 2021

Surja is a highly motivated and results-oriented UX/UI designer with a proven history of collaborative work, empowering teams and other designers to drive success. His robust portfolio of design work highlights his expertise in user-centric and business-centric design. He has overseen and directed market research, prototyping, QA, and more. Surja also has extensive experience with design software and expertise in identifying and troubleshooting UX problems and incorporating feedback.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Product Design Lead, Commerce, Point of Sale, Customer Experience

2022 - PRESENT
GoDaddy.com
  • Designed a register app for GoDaddy Poynt device. The register app allows GoDaddy's users to manage their day-to-day taking orders and order management. I am working on this application and improving the customer experience.
  • Worked on a catalog app designed for GoDaddy's user to manage their day-to-day business operations, including inventory, product management, and many more. This app is a work in progress.
  • Designed an order management app for GoDaddy Poynt device to manage orders taken online or in-store easily. This work is ongoing.
Technologies: User Experience (UX), Point of Sale, App Design, User Interface (UI), Customer Experience, Cross-platform UX, Cross-functional Design, Teamwork, Figma, Jira

UX Director

2019 - 2023
Ofspace Digital Agency
  • Gathered and evaluated user requirements in collaboration with geographically dispersed teams and clients while illustrating ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.
  • Specialized in design systems and scaled the product for various mobile apps and websites, including Eleia, Grabbd, Anyplace, Chess, Namu, and Parsec.
  • Designed Eleia's app and website from scratch with element functions that will help them scale their product over the next five years.
  • Conducted extensive user research before creating the web and mobile apps' flow, wireframes, and visual design for Chess, a large, Thailand-based fintech company.
  • Improved the user experience and scaled the design for the next three years for Namu, a fintech company.
  • Managed the development team, conducted user research and competitor analysis, created wireframes, and designed the UI for Parsec.
  • Handled an iOS application's user research, user flow, wireframing, and visual design for Enclaveapp, a dating app currently only available in Peru.
Technologies: Figma, Adobe Illustrator, InVision, Slack, Asana, Jira, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Design Systems, Mobile App UI, Web Applications, Native Mobile Apps, UI Branding

UX and System Designer

2021 - 2022
Suzy
  • Scaled the Crowdtap product with an extensive design system and user experience.
  • Served as a user experience designer. The role involves user-centric design processes, design with emotion, design with business thinking, and coordinating with geographically dispersed stakeholders while continuing to work on products.
  • Leveraged expertise in user- and business-centric web application design and development. Built an extensive design system to scale the product.
  • Utilized various design software, including Figma and Adobe XD, Sketch, and Premier, while translating the various requirements into well-executed designs.
  • Remains abreast of new technologies and best practices while remaining at the forefront of the UX design space.
Technologies: Figma, Jira, Slack, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Design Systems, Mobile App UI, Web Applications, Native Mobile Apps, UI Branding

Product Designer

2018 - 2019
Zomato
  • Designed the mobile and web application for Zamato, which drove user engagement and increased subscribers rates for the platform’s gold members.
  • Contributed to the design system for Zomato Pro.
  • Designed a child product of Zomato Pro called Hyperpure with a focus on user experience. Conducted user research for customer and merchant usability.
Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Mobile App UI, Web Applications, Native Mobile Apps

Principal Designer

2017 - 2018
Netbramha Studios
  • Managed user experience and research for various large-scale web and mobile applications.
  • Supervised the daily workflow of the development team, which involved extensive design work, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, and visual design, while ensuring all deliverables were executed on time, budget, and scope.
  • Developed a promising user interface and engaging user experience to design the fitness app and many more.
  • Built mobile applications and web experiences following best design processes for a top property broker and real estate company in India.
Technologies: Sketch, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Mobile App UI, Web Applications, UI Branding

Product Designer

2016 - 2017
GagaGugu
  • Spearheaded and led the UX and UI of the product GG poll, a polling system for general people, so they can debate in an easy-to-use format.
  • Oversaw and directed all user experience and market research in coordination with various external teams and collaborators, including a product manager, engineers, and QA.
  • Conducted research with the product manager and other teammates before creating the design system and UI for GG Connect, a social platform.
Technologies: Figma, Sketch, Slack, Jira, Scrum, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Mobile App UI, Web Applications, Native Mobile Apps

Design Director

2014 - 2016
FrndzIT
  • Created a local eCommerce software design with an eye on being streamlined, straightforward, and business-centric.
  • Designed medical software for a hospital by following the design process strictly.
  • Served as a design mentor and taught 70+ people to learn design.
Technologies: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Web Applications
2011 - 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

Metropolitan University - Bangladesh

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