Raj Solanki
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Raj Solanki

Brand + Visual Designer

Looking for Brand Design roles!

2 months ago

About

Joyful, open-minded, versatile - I like the simple things

Looking for brand design roles

In my free time: games, anime, drawing, and rock climbing

Projects

2024

Grove is a database platform for developers. This case study explores the brand's unique visual identity, with a focus on simplicity, scalability, and a visual mixture of technology and nature.

2024

7AM Running Club is a trail running club that revolves around community, growth, and nature.

2024
Synch / Branding

Personal brand project for a fintech start-up offering low-lift solutions to capital and lending for small businesses.

Side Projects

2024
Biome

Climate tech for every ecosystem – from the tundra to the desert, Biome provides solutions and tools for preserving the world.

2023
Spiral

logos, color guidelines, and 3D branding for a personal project.

after a year of self-learning design, talking to experienced creatives, and just taking my time - I feel like I'm at a place where I can see a clearer vision when I'm putting together designs.

small project, but big self appreciation moment for myself.

2023
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can you hear this icon through your phone

btw just learned this is refered to as smpte bars, you learn somethin new every day

2022

Researched, ideated, and iterated on a website redesign for a local wine boutique in Orlando.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Brokerage Ops at Cash App

Doing data things

2023 — 2023
Design Rotation at Robinhood
  • Partnering with the Design Systems team to create key screens across each product area to maximize efficiency for other designers with respect to scalability and improving discoverability.

  • Present and share among design and engineer leadership to receive and give feedback, iterating on screens, and collaborating with design leads in their respective product areas.

  • Re-create design components and guidelines for designers to understand usage in niche/specialized edge cases.

2019 — 2023
New Accounts Lead at Robinhood
Orlando, FL
  • Creating dashboards and reports through SQL queries weekly to assist in account maintenance risk issues and also as a workaround for under-developed tasks.
  • Assist engineers by creating UI mock ups for complex account servicing workflows.
  • Handle account maintenance escalations related to selling out, exterminating, and/or remediating accounts.
2022 — 2022
Freelance Product Designer at Wine On The Way
Orlando, FL
  • Conducted user and competitive research analysis to identify improvements for a website redesign.
  • Ideated and mocked up new onboarding, product search, and checkout flows.
  • Ran usability testing for end to end checkout flows to optimize the user experience for a swift process. 85% of participants felt the user flow was friendlier and efficient.
2022 — 2022
Product Ops Associate at Robinhood
Orlando, FL
  • Prepared and scaled 3 new internal tools to be used by customer experience agents contributing to a 3-5% increase in customer resolution rate month over month
  • Initiated feedback loops and brainstorming sessions with engineers to address pain points and identify opportunities for 5 new projects.
  • Served as an intermediary between operations and product/engineer teams to highlight and understand urgent product needs/fixes.

Education

2022 — Now
Product Design at Self Taught
Remote

Self directed projects spanning from UI work to user research, and freelance work as well.

Had the opportunity to work with the Robinhood design team on some side projects internally while there.

2017 — 2019
B.S.B.A. Finance at University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL