Harmanpreet Bains
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Harmanpreet Bains

UX Designer in Phoenix, She/Her

Hey y'all!
Any startups looking for a UX/Product Designer? - would love to collaborate and build something together. Dm me, I am open for work!

A year ago

About

Hey 👋🏻
I am a UX Designer who creates simple yet effective designs that are easy to understand and operate by putting real people at the center of the UX process.

I am currently working with a startups as a Solo UX Designer. I am open to new opportunities.

Check out my portfolio: hkbains.netlify.app/home

Contact

LinkedIn

Work Experience

2023 — Now
UX Designer at Goodhood
Remote
  • Led development of new user interface for web app and design system, reducing development time by 20% and boosting user conversion by 15%.

  • Collaborated closely with founders and engineers to troubleshoot UX issues and enhance user engagement, earning 95% positive feedback from user testing on new mobile app design.

  • Enhanced end-to-end experience of all Goodhood products through usability and A/B testing, resolving UX issues, and redesigning interfaces.

  • Solely designed dashboard, web app, mobile app, website, and design system, ensuring iterative consistency in an agile environment.

2022 — Now
UX/UI Designer - Student Worker at Learning Futures, Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

• Working on a mobile application that enables K12 students to study in a 3D environment using AR technology. Creating user flows and concepts to demonstrate the minimum viable product, and validate the design of the solution.
• Collaborating with developers to come up with an easy-to-use user interface for another VR application, that enables users to watch 360o videos and annotate them together with both text and audio comments.

2021 — 2022
Web Experience Designer - Student Worker at Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

• Designed web pages for the ASU East European Studies Center and accomplished a 200% increase in user traffic (Google Analytics) by using the standard ASU Design System, principles of user experience, and engaging content.
• Designed the teaching guides collaboratively with the Ph.D. professors for high school students that were distributed among 100+ students. Designed and compiled the annual report for the Critical Languages Institute 2021 issue.

2020 — 2021
Punjab, India

• Designed UI for a Local Pharmacy Chain’s E-Commerce, starting from creating user personas to final prototyping.
• Designed UI for another mobile application, intended to assist senior citizens with their daily tasks like groceries, in
times of home confinement or calamity.
• Worked with other teams and primary stakeholders of the product in an agile environment, to incorporate new changes in the products based on regular feedback and research.

Education

2021 — 2023
Masters in Human-Computer Interaction at Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
2017 — 2021
Bachelor in Fine Arts at Chitkara University
Punjab, India

Projects

2022

Redesigned the ASU fitness website by conducting usability tests among users.

2022
  • The project related to the conservation of the burrowing owls that are now classified as "species of concern" and relocating them to new homes.

  • Understanding the volunteering end in this conservation project and the problems the volunteers face while rescuing the owls.

  • We were a group of four master's students who researched this project in our Technical Communications course.

2021

While working as a UX/UI designer in a web and app development company in India, we needed to create a mobile application to help the vulnerable elderly citizens of Mauritius who were in home confinement and needed help with daily tasks such as grocery, health check-ups, and medicines.

2020

Mittal Medicose website design is an e-commerce online pharmacy website that enables the purchase of medicines and book lab tests. This website was created for a local pharmacy chain in India. The client provided us with the details like medicine category, facilities available, etc.

Awards

2019
Best Graphic Designer from Umeed Ki Kiran NGO
2018
Start Illustrator from Chitkara Design School

Volunteering

2021 — Now
Volunteer at BPSHI, Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
2018 — 2019
Graphic Designer at Umeed Ki Kiran
India