Zulal Ahmad

Zulal Ahmad A UI/UX Designer - linkedin.com/in/zulalahmad dribbble.com/zulal Introduction I’m a self-taught designer with over six years of experience. My strengths are creating user-centered experiences and crafting aesthetically pleasing interfaces, while focusing on pixel level perfection, for web and mobile applications. My passion is to take ideas and visualize them into beautifully crafted stories. Skill Summary ● Design user experience deliverables. This includes sitemaps and wireframes that are based off the needs of end-users and businesses. ● Build rapid prototypes, with tools like InVision, to explain the process. ● Create visually stunning yet usable user interfaces with tools like Photoshop and Sketch. ● Create fresh icons and illustrations, in scalable form, where the meaning can be found, visually, without further explanation. ● Prepare detailed style guides for the easiness of the front-end process. ● Effective communication skills with clients, users, and multidisciplinary teams. Objective I’m looking for a place where I’m involved in the beginnings of a business idea that matures into a full product. I want to learn how ideas are crafted and executed by teams and become a part of the process by contributing my skills. Past Experience Visual Designer at KeepTrukin​ (A Google-funded startup based in California that ​ provides electronic logs and fleet management tools.) ● Collaborated with business and project management teams to design and enhance the existing and new functionality for the web-based fleet managers dashboard, admin panels, and reports. ● Defined a visual language that was usable, accessible, and had other user-centered design best practices, while acknowledging the business and end-user’s needs. ● Designed visually rich, user-friendly interfaces by recreating and rearranging the complex components such as log graphs, data tables, and modules. ● Explored different colors consistent with their brand and crafted meaningful icons to give the dashboard a fresh feel. ● Prepared a detailed style guide, including interactions of all of the components such as buttons, drop-downs, modules and tables, for the easiness of front-end team. UI/UX Designer at Ubergrad​ (A networking site that connects international students ​ with U.S. universities.) ● Designed and enhanced the user experience for the entire product by following a unified approach and user-centered design practices. ● Worked with the founder to add new functionalities to the product, while solving complex user experience issues. ● Explored a design language that compliments responsive design and works together with both major phases of the product: student and university phase. ● Created beautiful yet usable interfaces for the entire product, including complicated dashboards, landing pages and support forum. ● Crafted a fresh and purposeful icon family that works well, and worked on various modules and promotional pieces. ● Facilitated marketing and development teams with a detailed style guide. UI/UX Designer at Jumpshare​ (A real-time file sharing service.) ​ ● Worked with the founder to come up with a better user experience for the both; web and mobile platforms, analyzing the end-user’s needs. ● Defined a unified design language that works well across the product, from mobile to web app. ● Created visually rich yet clean user interface for the iOS app from scratch and crafted a fresh icon family for it. ● Redesigned the web app with a new flat, clean and usable interface, enhanced the icons to 1px stroke style to match with the design. ● Helped the front-end team by facilitating the icons, modules, and buttons.