Pukar
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Pukar

Senior Product Designer in London, He/Him/His

Open to new opportunities

2 years ago

About

👨‍💻 Master’s graduate with 10+ years of international design experience, working in cross-functional multidisciplinary teams across various commercial environments, from early stage to high growth companies.

👉 Focused on executing on a north star metric by balancing business and human needs to craft delightful & modular ecosystems using a hypothesis-driven approach, design thinking methodologies and lean start-up principles.

► Skills: Product strategy // Research interviews // Card sorting and tree jacking // Brainstorming // Sketching and storyboards // Journey mapping // Workshop facilitation // Visual and interface design // Interactive prototypes // Usability testing // Accessibility evaluation

► Stack: Notion // Hotjar // Mural // Figma // ProtoPie // Framer // Webflow

Work Experience

2022 — 2023
London

Advocating design excellence by crafting end-to-end experiences for B2B infrastructure teams working on developer platforms that help protect user’s privacy across all of Meta products and services.

2022 — 2022
London

Short-term contract position in the Ads team focused on transforming traditional mWeb pages into dynamic and visually immersive multi-page experience that is optimised for mobile devices by defining a new visual language and micro-interactions for AdSense publishers.

2019 — 2021
London

Promoted into a Senior role having launched a zero-to-one MVP to the UK market. Since launch, the new Payroll employee portal has seen 4k companies where at least one employee accepted an invite and around 47% of employee invites accepted.

2016 — 2018
Staines

Worked in a multi-disciplinary product team responsible for the British Gas dashboard in rapidly turning conceptual ideas into multiple high fidelity concepts through various research methods which drove click-through rates into various journeys to increase by 51.82%.

2014 — 2015
London

Successfully ran ethnography research sessions and created new UI components for the Dental digital transformation, which attributed to online bookings tripling with the percentage of overall new appointments growing from 4% to 30% within a six month of launch.

Education

2015 — 2016
MSc Human-Computer Interaction with Ergonomics at UCL
London

The interdisciplinary Master's degree helped develop a theoretical understanding and relevance to the fundamentals of human factors. Dissertation topic: Access time of transient navigation patterns on content-rich smartphone mobile apps.

2006 — 2009
BA (Hons) Digital Media at London Metropolitan University
London

Exposed to the practical and technical aspects of web technology, while developing skills in problem-solving, marketing, and interactive visual design. Final project: Interactive music application for iOS.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Spearheaded a social app on iOS and Android that empowers the Nepalese community to connect privately and safely. From ideation to product market fit leading to over 5k matches.

Volunteering

2022 — Now

30+ completed sessions equaling over 1000+ minutes mentoring junior/mid-weight designers across 8 different countries on career growth, interview, portfolio and resume feedback.

Contact

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