👋 I am Shari, a freelance senior Product Designer living in the beautiful city of Bath, UK.
About me
About me:
I love being a designer and thrive on solving business challenges through beautiful, easy to use designs. My focus is on the digital world, crafting experiences for apps and websites, but at my heart I’m a creative. What excites me most about product design is its constant evolution and the challenge of balancing creativity, strategy, and user-focused solutions. Each project is an opportunity to innovate, adapt, and create designs that meet both business goals and user needs.
Background:
Self employed
Senior Product Designer
2020 - Present
I have done a mix of digital design and product design over the last 5 years. I designed e-commerce websites, web extensions, dashboards, and web applications for startup and agency clients. I have gained experience in UX by conducting user research through video interviews, creating customer journey maps, developing user personas and scenarios, and designing user flows.
Gener8
Contract Product Designer
2020 - 2024
I enhanced their iOS and Android apps by improving the user experience and design while ensuring accessibility standards were met. I focused on refining user flows and interaction design through collaborative problem-solving to balance user needs with business goals. To guide these improvements, I conducted user research and testing, iterating on UI/UX updates in line with product strategy and key performance indicators. In addition, I designed and built marketing websites using Webflow, bringing ideas to life with clean, user-friendly designs.
Omobono
Senior Designer
2016 - 2018
I contributed to and eventually led large-scale digital design projects for major brands. My responsibilities spanned the entire creative process, from pitching innovative ideas to collaborating with UX and development teams. I played a key role in establishing the creative vision for projects, either executing the designs myself or art-directing their implementation. Additionally, I spearheaded the development and implementation of a shared, flexible design system, which streamlined our processes and significantly improved the efficiency and consistency of our websites.
Meanbee
Digital Designer
2015 - 2016
I designed e-commerce websites, created wireframes and advised on UX decisions, built prototypes, presented work our clients, and worked closely with the developers at Meanbee who then built the sites.
State Farm
Graphic Desgner 2
2007 - 2015
I worked in State Farm’s in-house Creative Services department as a Graphic Designer. I conceptualized and designed for large internal and external events, and also worked on a marketing and advertising team that established advertising campaigns which ran nationwide. During my time there I art directed photoshoots and was lead designer on an internal publication, conceptualised creative for large initiatives, and worked on the branding team when the company established a new logo and brand.
Most recently, I've been doing product design for Gener8. I began my freelance career in 2020, and prior to that, I was designing digital experiences at Omobono (now The Marketing Practice). Before that, I worked designing e-commerce websites at Meanbee (now Space 48), and before moving to the UK, I worked as a designer in creative services at State Farm in Bloomington, IL. Additionally, I have taught design as a part-time lecturer at both Bath College and Illinois State University.
What I'm good at
I love making things look beautiful and will work until a design is right. I design quickly and I will iterate over and over to make sure I've exhausted my ideas. I enjoy learning and if I don't know how to do something I will do my best to figure out how.
Things I have done in the past:
What I can do for you:
🖌️ Product design
💻 Website design
🛒 E-commerce site design
📈 UX Research
🔘 Design system creation
🎨 Logo design and branding
📹 Art direction of photoshoot, animation, or video
🛠️ Build websites in Webflow
Current toolbox:
Companies I've designed for