Hi!

I'm Akshay Walia

UX Product Designer with 6 years of experience in User Research, Testing, Visual Design and Coding using HTML, CSS and Java Script

ABOUT

I have over 6 years of experience in User Experience Design where I developed assets and managed design systems of large corporates like OpenText (https://www.opentext.com), Digital Main Street (https://digitalmainstreet.ca) and CommuniTech (https://communitech.ca) across 3 countries. This extensive experience has given me the ability to identify any problem using design thinking and develop a fully functional detailed website.

Experience

Sep 2020 - Dec 2020

UX/UI Designer, Communitech

  1. Case study local businesses in Ontario, their Problems, target customers and designing a digital transformation journey plan for them.
  2. Collaborating with my team leader and discussing business owner pain points, goals and finding solution to those problems.
  3. Designing user experience using Figma and Adobe XD as per solution
2019 - 2020

Live Project (OTIP)

(Ontario teachers insurance plan) 

  1. Conduct User research, Fixed personas and capturing insights. Outcome; their assumptions were invalid regarding OTIP’s user base. 
  2. Gave solution to increase user base by re-vamping OTIP’s website and mobile app to measure KPI’s. 
  3. Re-Designed Customer journey map, and Conducting User interviews
2017 - 2018​

Sr. Business Development Analyst

  1. Training executives on business development and new lead generation,
  2. Managed HTML, CSS, JavaScript projects (primarily Web and mobile apps).
  3. Designed user interface using Adobe Photoshop and illustrator.
  4. Prototyping on Figma, Sketch and Canva. Designing Wire-frames, Use-case Diagrams and Information architecture

Education

2020, Post Graduate, Conestoga College

User Experience Design

2019, Post Graduate, Conestoga Collage

Computer Applications Development

2011-2015, B.Tech, Punjab Technical University

Computer Science Engineering

Skills

Photoshop 89%
WordPress 61%
Illustrator 71%
InDesign 69%
Html & CSS 85%
Figma 80%
Interaction Design 89%
Web & Mobile Design 76%

Contact

What I do:

Core Expertise Additional Skills
User Research WordPress
User Experience Design Shopify
Prototyping Social Media Marketing
Wireframing Graphics Designing
Customer Journey Mapping Google Keyword Research
Persona Development Creating Story Boards