About Samiksha Makhijani
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Academic Level Degree Bachelor
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Age 28 - 32 Years
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Salary 1850
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Gender Female
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Industry Graphics Designing
Education
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2018
Georgian College
Graphic Design
- User Experience and web design - Interface Design - Advertisement Design - Branding and Identity
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2016
Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology
Industrial Design
- Furniture and Spatial Design - User Experience Design - User Research - Production
Experience
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2020 - 2020
Shutterstock
Product Designer
Brand Approvals: • Created an end-to-end workflow and explored components, using design system to provide seamless experience to the users. • Participated in client interview calls to understand user needs and behavior. • Collaborated with the team to design a workspace that will reduce the turn around time by 3 days. • Presented the user workflow at the stakeholder’s review to receive feedback and understand the business strategy. Contributor Selection: • Collaborated and worked closely with the project managers, engineering team and data scientists to create approval workspace for the brands. • Designed a scalable solution to release MVP for testing the product at an early stage. • Created a rich interactive prototype for UserTesting.
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2018 - 2020
Designwerke
Product Designer
Digital Annual Report for cross-platforms: • Applied design thinking process and created user flows, persona, and customer journey map to understand user needs and behaviour. • Produced interactive prototype using Adobe XD and experimented animations to integrate into the design. • Followed WCAG guidelines to ensure accessibility of the website. Website Redesign: • Conducted a competitor analysis to evaluate competitors strategies, weakness and strengths using standard heuristic principles. • Created user journey map to identify the pain points and the scope for improvement. • Used card sorting to organize the information and create effective navigation through the website. Wordpress website facelift: • Created personas and user journey map to understand the user demographic, and user flow. • Updated the website with their new campaign material using HTML and CSS. • Worked with colour contrast, type sizes and break points
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2017 - 2018
Growing Georgian
UX/UI Designer
iOS app for Georgian College Students: • Conducted stakeholder interviews to understand the organization’s vision and scope of the project. • Based on the information generated from the interviews, created personas and task flow to understand the user journey through the app. • Created Information architecture, low fidelity wireframes and high fidelity wireframes. • Produced interactive prototype for user focused group testing of around 10 users and improved designs.
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2014 - 2018
Citigroup
Junior UI/UX DESIGNER
• Created interface designs that enhanced user experience and supported senior designers.
Portfolio
Honors & awards
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2018
Graduate Award
Presented by Registered Graphic Design Association