Mustafa Parekh

A Happy Polymath

Product Management

I am a Computer Science graduate who is passionate about designing digital experiences based in empathy. I have worked in China, Germany and Pakistan and have come to understand global work environments. Moreover, I believe that innovation and problem solving is a continuous process that happens at every level by observing and empathizing with the users. I feel proud in designing many digital innovative solutions like a customized product board and designing user-centric projects.

Experience

Product Intern

In a Legal Tech startup, I worked in a scrum team to produce 3 projects in 2 months, led retrospective meetings and user research.

IT Intern

I implemented Social Media Strategy for sustainability and designed training modules by doing extensive user research and interviews.

Developer Analyst

From collecting requirements from stakeholders to conducting user testing and release support, I worked on to release company's ERP software.

Portfolio

Calculator - Nuemorphism

The app is a calculator with a 3D look. This experiment led me to deduce that this design might not be user friendly due to low contrast but is very aesthetically pleasing.

Credit Card Checkout Screen

According to user research and interviews, checkout screens are very clunky and many people leave the buying process at this stage. To address this problem, I designed easy to use checkout screens.

Computer Vision

In this project, I try to replace mouse interactions with facial movements.

UX Design

In this project, we made an user-centric app design to translate American Sign Language.

Linguistics

In this video, we tried to explain how Berlin was represented by movies over the years with.

Life Through Images