Arvand Alviri

Designer in Vancouver, BC, Canada

Member since August 3, 2016

Arvand is a senior product designer who's worked on a variety of web and mobile apps for Microsoft, Deloitte, Caterpillar, the United States federal government, Kendall Jenner, NYSE-listed companies, and a Silicon Valley startup acquired by Amazon. He's also worked as a full-time Agile Scrum product manager in a Y-Combinator team. End users of his designs have included millions of consumers, as well as PayPal, Hilton Hotels, and the County of Los Angeles.

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Digital Design

HR Portal for Employee Career Growth, Engagement and Connection
- SaaS Design
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- React Native
- Desktop Web Design
- Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS)
- Social Networks
- UI Design
- Prototyping
- UX Design
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- System Design
- B2B
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Wireframing
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership
- Design Strategy
Smart Building Analytics Dashboard
- Data Visualization
- Dashboard Design
- Product Design
- Information Design
- Information Architecture (IA)
- SaaS Design
- Data Visualization Designer
- Charts
- UI Design
- Prototyping
- UX Design
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- Cross-platform UX
- System Design
- B2B
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Wireframing
- Dashboards
- Web Design
- User Research
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership
- Design Strategy
Data Visualization and Hardware Setup for AI-enabled Energy Usage
- Information Architecture (IA)
- Dashboard Design
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Data Visualization
- Machine Learning
- Product Design
- Data Visualization Designer
- Charts
- UI Design
- Prototyping
- UX Design
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- Cross-platform UX
- System Design
- B2B
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Wireframing
- Dashboards
- Web Design
- User Research
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership
- Design Strategy
AI SaaS Dashboard | Analytics and Semantics Data Input
- SaaS
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Data Visualization
- Dashboard Design
- Web App UX
- UX Research
- Product Design
- Enterprise SaaS
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Data Visualization Designer
- Charts
- UI Design
- UX Design
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- Cross-platform UX
- System Design
- B2B
- Wireframing
- Dashboards
- Web Design
- User Research
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership
- Design Strategy
Microsoft Private Beta Social App
- Social Media Apps
- A/B Testing
- Data Analysis
- UX Analysis
- Analytics
- User Experience (UX)
- Wireframing
- User Flows
- UI Design
- UX Design
- High-fidelity Prototypes
- Mobile UI
- Mobile UX
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership
- Design Strategy
Mental Health App Design | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Psychology & Mental Health
- User Experience (UX)
- User Interface (UI)
- User Personas
- Mixpanel
- Healthcare
- Sketch
- Wellness
- User Journeys
- Personas
- Marvel App
- Health
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Wireframing
- Mobile UI
- Mobile UX
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership
- Design Strategy
Social Booking App iOS and Android UX/UI Redesign
- Mixpanel
- Apps
- User Interface (UI)
- User Experience (UX)
- App UI
- App UX
- Sketch
- Data Analytics
- Booking
- On-demand
- iOS
- User Flows
- App Design
- iOS App Design
- Google Material Design
- Meetups
- UI Audits
- UX Audits
- Feature Planning
- Feature Analysis
- Usability
- Usability Guidelines
- Usability Testing
- User Needs
- User Journeys
- Social Networks
- Social Design
- UI Design
- UX Design
- Wireframing
- Mobile UI
- Mobile UX
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership
- Design Strategy
UX Audit and Redesign for Machine Learning Powered Enterprise SaaS
- UX Audits
- Machine Learning
- Enterprise SaaS
- Interaction Design (IxD)
- User Flows
- UX Design
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership
Wearable IoT Smart Watch App's Clickable Prototype
- User Experience (UX)
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Interactive Prototypes
- InVision
- Proto.io
- Marvel
- User Interface (UI)
- Surveys
- Sketch
- Apps
- Companion Software
- Wearable Technology
- Smart Watches
- UX Design
- Cross-platform UX
- Mobile UI
- Mobile UX
- Strategic Design
- UX Leadership

Employment

Senior UX/UI Product Consultant
2016 - PRESENT
Toptal Clients
- Contracted for various Fortune 500 companies mostly under NDA.
- Designed the SaaS AI platform for discourse.ai that leveraged AI and ML models for financial services companies. It unlocks the value of conversation data by creating smarter chatbots.
- Conducted user research for verdigris.co to allow for better property management decision making through a new hardware and software on-boarding process and created more intuitive analytics dashboards based on the research.
- Translated research from Deloitte into high-fidelity mobile app prototypes—capturing requirements, overcoming status quo pain points and preserving positives. Handed off to Deloitte to continue their research for their US federal government client.
- Designed a React web dashboard that enables building managers in various roles within the commercial real estate industry to monitor and report smart building’s utility and security through a fully customizable data visualization dashboard.
Technologies: Sketch, InVision, UI Design, Prototyping, UX Design, B2B, Wireframing, Dashboards, Web Design, User Research, Design Thinking, Workshops, Strategic Design, UX Leadership, Leadership
Senior UX/UI Consultant
2016 - PRESENT
Cakewalk Labs
- Worked as a remote UX/UI consultant specializing in data-driven interaction design and conversion optimization through UX research, UX audits, UI redesigns, and AB testing. Clients have included Deloitte, and a Fortune 100 company (under public NDA).
- Hired by a Fortune 100 company to restructure the team’s digital product design process by creating a usability testing program to gain clickable prototype feedback from a roster of 50+ highly specialized business users and an analytics strategy to gain insights on exactly how the product is being used post-launch, leading to data-driven team discussions, faster iterations, and less guess-work, contributing to $5.1 million in revenue in the first two months of product launch.
- Designed, coded, and launched various mobile and web apps using React Native and Ruby on Rails.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails (RoR), React Native, Sketch, InVision, UI Design, Prototyping, UX Design, B2B, Wireframing, Dashboards, Web Design, User Research, Design Thinking, Workshops, Strategic Design, UX Leadership, Leadership
UX Consultant
2015 - 2016
Microsoft
- Acted as the sole UX designer and Product Manager on a small team to go from ideation to a several months long private beta for a social mobile app, which was later launched in the Chinese App Store.
- Defined KPIs and data analytics events to measure user behavior and feature success in a private beta test with multiple iterations that spanned several months.
- Led iterations and pivots based on user analytics data, among other methodologies.
- Designed A/B tests for certain features and iterations. The product was launched after my contract as an external consultant had finished.
- Translated Microsoft's mobile app idea into minimal viable product specs through a thorough understanding of the problem being solved and the vision.
Technologies: Mixpanel, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, UI Design, UX Design, Wireframing, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Design Thinking, Strategic Design, UX Leadership, Leadership
Product Manager
2014 - 2015
Green Dot Corporation
- Acted as an agile product owner largely managing the design team, and the product's design efforts as well as user experience. I worked very closely with the design team to prototype the next generation of certain features for the web and iPhone, and the next generation of the GoBank mobile, and web applications.
- Worked with the Y Combinator-backed Loopt team that was acquired by Green Dot (NYSE:GD) to build GoBank, an innovative FDIC insured online checking account (iPhone, Android, and web) with an extensive ATM and cash reload network.
- Collaborated with the design team to prototype the next generation of GoBank features for web, iPhone and Android.
- Launched, as the product manager, the GoBank Walmart product online—increasing the number of users by allowing registrations through the web, iPhone, and Android apps without a Walmart GoBank Starter Kit purchase.
- Led A/B testing efforts on iPhone and Android applications to optimize user conversions especially for user onboarding.
- Managed various product requests from multiple stakeholders (legal, customer care, information security, compliance, marketing, and more).
- Worked with both onshore and offshore (China) engineers from sprint-planning to production.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Jira, UI Design, UX Design, Wireframing, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Design Thinking, Strategic Design, UX Leadership, Leadership
Product UX Manager
2012 - 2013
Best Apps Market
- Worked at the intersection of UX and Product on an app that, upon leaving the company, had over 10 million installs and 4.5 stars from +130,000 reviews.
- Spearheaded and led the rebranding of the apps like AppDisco to Fetch. Identified problems through data analysis and usability tests, conceptualized and drove new features by working closely with engineering— resulting in up to 5x increases in key performance metrics.
- Initiated and led product overhaul upon joining with a focus on simplification through user education, initial experience, and overall usability.
- Designed and prototyped next generation versions of the app which were user-tested and iterated on.
- Drove product features with a heavy focus on retention and new user experience, creating product roadmap and vision through wireframes, flow charts, and prototypes.
- Designed and conducted weekly user tests for various hypotheses and overall usability.
Technologies: InVision, Proto.io, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, UI Design, UX Design, Wireframing, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, User Research, Design Thinking
UX Designer
2012 - 2012
Blindsight Corporation (Acquired by Amazon)
- Worked at a company that was eventually acquired by Amazon.
- Led focus groups and user tests with various age groups of low vision and blind users for the iPhone app TextDetective in addition to the iPad app SmartMagnifier, using quantitative and qualitative data to drive iterations.
- Conducted rapid prototyping to enable A/B tests designed to quantify differences in various user interaction design hypotheses.
- Defined and communicated product features to the engineering team.
- Led the design of an iPad application funded by the National Institute of Health which was created to benefit low-vision and legally-blind individuals: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smartmagnifier/id589564315.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Apple Keynote, Adobe Photoshop, UI Design, UX Design, Wireframing, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, User Research, Design Thinking, Workshops

Other Experience

Enhance User Flow: A Guide to UX Analysis (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux/guide-to-ux-analysis
Conducting UX analysis as part of an iterative process provides valuable, actionable insights into enhancing and optimizing a product’s user experience.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration Degree in Management Information System and Marketing
2006 - 2011
Simon Fraser University - Vancouver, Canada

Certifications

Human Computer Interaction
NOVEMBER 2012 - PRESENT
Coursera

Experience

User Research10 years
User Experience (UX)10 years
UX Research10 years
B2B10 years
Product Design10 years
Enterprise SaaS8 years
UX Audits8 years

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