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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Leading the trust and safety efforts for our financial services across the family of apps (Facebook Pay, WhatsApp Pay, Instagram etc.), supporting the evolution to Metaverse!

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Led (and shipped) the end-to-end Product Design for ‘Ad Strategies,’ a 0>1 product aimed at helping SMBs make the most out of their advertising spend using automation and a simplified workflow.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led Design Systems efforts for TV Guide across web, mobile and native platforms, including careful planning and execution; coaching team members on topics such as accessibility, semantic integrity of colors and type scale, and implementation of design tokens etc. (https://sketch.cloud/s/JPEJ0).Leading redesign efforts for the TV Guide’s iOS App, including product strategy, visual design, interaction design and prototyping. Collaborating with a distributed and cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, editorial and marketing to ensure a successful product delivery.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Leading iterative Product Design in an Agile environment for TV Guide (Advanced Platforms - iOS, Android), a premium CBS Interactive brand serving millions of users globally; responsible for all user interaction design for desktop as well as mobile web/native Apps.Redesigned TV Guide’s Android App, involving comprehensive user research through in-person interviews and questionnaires, identifying pain points, detailed journey mapping, wire-framing, user flows, visual design, interactive prototypes for testing and an enhanced UI focused on increasing MAUs and reaching our KPIs and metrics.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Designed and successfully shipped products including re-design efforts for Download, involving a comprehensive style guide for web and mobile components, focusing on user engagement, increased content discovery, better video performance and a premium layout for advertising opportunities.Coordinating efforts with a diverse and geographically dispersed team of product managers, engineers, editorial and stakeholders for strategy, ideation, pixel-perfect design implementations and A/B testing for page optimization.

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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Led User Experience and Visual Design for a large scale international project focused on using technology to assist monitoring and evaluation, project management and reporting – aimed at poverty alleviation programs in developing countries.Designed and successfully ran a pilot for a disruptive, data-driven, participant and staff performance tracking software (web, Android) with one of the world's largest NGOs based in Bangladesh to replace outdated paper processes - enabling transparency and accountability in the system.Conducted ethnographic field research while collaborating with the stakeholders in Bangladesh to gather project requirements, garner feedback, detailed journey mapping and conducting user testing on wire frames, functional prototypes and visual designs, both for web and mobile; also worked with a diverse, global team of web and mobile developers to ensure delivery of the final product.

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for product usability and ensuring a delightful user experience for the in-house product, aimed at providing care for senior citizen communities through an easy-to-use mobile and web optimized interface.Generated user stories, personas and use-cases for various wellness and community engagement components; specified user experience design through walk-throughs, interactive prototypes and wire-frames. Successfully shipped a family engagement app with native designs for iOS and Android, aimed at increasing family involvement with the daily activities of their senior loved ones through timely updates. A latest app user survey produced positive results indicating a significant 70% increase in family communication!

Lahore, Punjab, Pk

Responsible for setting up the online identity (web, mobile, social media) for the university including brand elements and marketing collateral from the ground up. Channelized various marketing strategies by running targeted campaigns on Facebook & Twitter driven towards building a healthy online presence.Served as a Design Consultant for designing human-centric interfaces at the nascent university, focusing on conceptualizing and designing solutions and case-studies to real-world problems faced in the developing countries. Explored the social, economic, cultural, and technological dimensions of ICT (Information & Communication Technologies).

Lahore, Pk

Served as a UI/UX Designer for various in-house and off-shore products including web and desktop applications, also heavily involved in strategy and concepts. Owned UI and design for a large scope user workflow project for winter maintenance in Canada; responsible for wire-framing and prototyping layouts for web and mobile layouts.Involved in the layout and UI design of a web based dashboard for ‘In The Chat’, a customer sales portal built upon public data streams collected from social networks including Twitter & Facebook.

Led Product & Interface Design/Strategy for Web/Mobile based I.T solutions for various departments and clients. Organized first ever ‘e-Governance exhibition’ in Pakistan, featuring over 30 departmental projects highlighting some of the key initiatives by PITB. Designed all related marketing collateral including brochures, leaflets, invitations, posters, newspapers ads, plaques, etc.Designed the logo, website and marketing collateral for ‘Plan 9, Pakistan’s first Technology Incubator’ - currently commencing their third incubation cycle.Designed the logo and marketing collateral for ‘Information Technology University’, a first hands-on technology university in Pakistan of its kind focusing on using IT in public and private sectors in order to create innovative and efficient systems leading to sustainable development. Designed all promotional material including brochures, booklets, newspaper ads, stationery etc.Designed marketing collateral for various events and conferences held at Arfa Software Technology Park including ‘Information Security Conference 2013’, ‘Cloud Computing Summit’, etc.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Telecommunication Engineering

Intermediate (Fsc), Pre-Engineering