Experience

Valet Closet

• United States
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UX Designer

  • Jan 2022 - 2 years

  Texas, United States Valet Closet is a self-storage company that helps it's users downsize their homes from organizing their items into bins till delivering them to storage units. This includes customer side Inventory system, Uber-like Driver app and multiple Admin panels for storage units. I'm responsible for bottom-up UX design solution which improves end-to-end user journeys. - Work in close collaboration with product owners throughout the project lifecycle to ensure the design meets business goals and… Show more Valet Closet is a self-storage company that helps it's users downsize their homes from organizing their items into bins till delivering them to storage units. This includes customer side Inventory system, Uber-like Driver app and multiple Admin panels for storage units. I'm responsible for bottom-up UX design solution which improves end-to-end user journeys. - Work in close collaboration with product owners throughout the project lifecycle to ensure the design meets business goals and end users’ needs. - Facilitate internal team communication, bridging the gap between visual design and development - Requirements & constraints gathering through stakeholder and actual user interviews - Use design tools to create storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, information architecture diagrams and user journey maps for demonstrations and user testing. - Produce high-fidelity designs for implementation by development teams. - Conduct scenario-based usability testing with actual users - Present and justify design decisions based on User-centered design best practices. - Review proposed product changes or enhancements for compliance and alignment with desired user experience and suggest improvements. Show less



Qatar Business Incubation Center (QBIC)

• Qatar
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Manager

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2019

  Qatar - Worked as a Product Manager for a startup called 'Hasalty', an e-learning mobile app created to promote financial literacy and saving culture among children of Qatar. - Worked on all aspects from Inception to App development including requirements gathering, product development, social media handling, and testing. - Managed and navigated the priorities of developing, design, content and marketing while balancing resources for outsourcing and other constraints to arrive at an effective… Show more - Worked as a Product Manager for a startup called 'Hasalty', an e-learning mobile app created to promote financial literacy and saving culture among children of Qatar. - Worked on all aspects from Inception to App development including requirements gathering, product development, social media handling, and testing. - Managed and navigated the priorities of developing, design, content and marketing while balancing resources for outsourcing and other constraints to arrive at an effective and timely solution. - Responsible for the design of the app. - Responsible for eliciting requirements from stakeholders and reporting back to the development team. - Responsible for creating and timely posting content on social media platforms. Show less



Fiverr (Fiverr.com)

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelancer

  • Sep 2016 - Sep 2018

  My job here is to make efficient interfaces for web and mobile apps keeping in regard Human Computer Interaction and User Interface Engineering and have worked on 20+ projects with 4.9/5 rating.



Al Jazeera Media Network

• Qatar
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 700 & Above Employee

• Former Intern

  • Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

  Doha, Qatar Profile : http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/shangool-riaz.html 1- Worked with interactive producers on generating original storytelling ideas and concepts. 2- Co-produced one or more of the following interactive stories - news quizzes, timelines, story maps, snapshots, infographics, data visualizations, maps, long forms. 3- Assisted producers in one or more of the following data-driven tasks - story research, data gathering, data cleaning, data validation/verification, data… Show more Profile : http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/shangool-riaz.html 1- Worked with interactive producers on generating original storytelling ideas and concepts. 2- Co-produced one or more of the following interactive stories - news quizzes, timelines, story maps, snapshots, infographics, data visualizations, maps, long forms. 3- Assisted producers in one or more of the following data-driven tasks - story research, data gathering, data cleaning, data validation/verification, data visualization. 4- Migrated all the interactive pieces including the long forms from HTTP to HTTPS protocol. 5- Certified in Data Journalism training- 20 hours. My work: 1- Researched and created an infographic displaying the fasting hours during Ramadan around the globe. 2- Developed a dynamic location-based javascript project informing what day of Ramadan is it today. 3- Depicting how international migration, income groups and fertility rate is affecting the distribution of global population via multiple infographics. Show less