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Ran Talks Design is a YouTube channel dedicated to empowering designers to make a greater impact through business and product thinking, as well as growth principles. Each year, I post original content and interview influential designers to unravel the complexities of design. Our primary audience includes mid- to senior-level designers seeking career advancement, designers with a keen interest in growth, and junior designers aspiring to break in and elevate their careers.

Led design vision and strategy for Monetization and Retail/Hardware growth.

Led design and research initiatives for Activation pillar. Launched and iterated on Onboarding guide, Prebuilt Layouts and core Webflow Designer experiences.

- Spearheaded growth processes within Adobe Stock to increase the experiment velocity by 2x quarter over quarter- Led design to launch Adobe Stock Free collection to create a new form of reliable traffic to stock.adobe.com- Led design for Adobe Stock integration into CC Desktop marketplace- Led design and vision sprints for the future of stock marketplace and stock contributors

- Led design for the Growth Traffic team to revamp the company homepage, which led to a 14.8% increase in lead conversion.- Designed Taxonomy product add-on that was sold to over 290 teams and influenced over 40 million dollars in total contract revenue. - Led design and research for Automated Release Analysis feature - a crucial building block for Amplitude Growth Engine. - Spearheaded Amplitude's Design System Cerulean.

Taught a 10-week Diagramming and Prototyping for UX course for a class of 14 students. Topics including User-centered design, User experience mapping, low-fi and high-fi wireframe, and different levels of prototyping.

- Led design and research for Chartboost Dashboard through a complete redesign- Designed internal tooling for efficiency and simplify workflow for internal account managers

- Led design initiatives for next-gen Marketo Analytics and Email Editor 2.0.- Conducted user research and qualitative user studies.- Worked closely with PMs and Engineers until feature ships. Collaborate with marketers, sales reps, account managers, community managers, and customers to gather requirements, define strategies and curate feedbacks. - Mentored and guided design intern

- Strategized UI, user experience and workflow for next-gen analytics platform under direct management of the CEO. - Proposed new features based on market opportunities, literature review and expert interviews. Delivered storyboards, workflows, wireframes and product specs focusing on data acquisition, content creation and sharing.- Conducted research on primary target user (Data Scientists). Create user personas and summarize typical user workflow.

- Designed and implemented features for MicroStrategy Visual Insight using cross-browser compatible HTML5, CSS3 (Sass) and JavaScript. - Prototyped various data visualizations using D3.js and designed a simple “drag-and-drop” experience for advanced users to easily plug in customized visualizations. - Hackathon runner-up. Competed against 60 teams across the globe, final submission was featured at MicroStrategy World 2013 and product marketing videos.

Design and developed Dojo-based user interface for DataStage Workload Manager.