Behzad Khodagholizade
Product Designer
Tehran, IR.About
Highly accomplished Product Designer with a demonstrated ability to create significant impact for users, drive business growth, and foster team success. Possessing extensive experience in end-to-end product design, B2B/B2C solutions, and leveraging AI-driven tools, I excel at transforming complex needs into intuitive, high-engagement experiences. My strategic approach ensures product initiatives align with business objectives, while my mentorship and collaborative skills empower design teams.
Work
Gapify
|Design Mentor
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Summary
Mentored the design team on B2B UX best practices and enhanced design processes, including AI chatbot user experience.
Highlights
Mentored the design team on B2B UX best practices, agile workflows, iterative approaches, UX writing, and design system improvements.
Enhanced Gapify's AI chatbot user experience and overall design process through strategic guidance.
Supported product designer recruitment by screening resumes and conducting 8 candidate interviews.
Fast Bundle
|Product Designer
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Summary
Spearheaded end-to-end design for an all-in-one bundling platform, significantly enhancing user engagement and achieving top app store rankings.
Highlights
Spearheaded the end-to-end design of an all-in-one bundling platform, adopted by over 18,000 Shopify merchants.
Enhanced 8 dual-aspect (B2B & B2C) bundling solutions, driving a 200% engagement boost in the most-used flow.
Integrated Shopify's Polaris design system and developed a dynamic, modular design system, enabling merchants to build customizable bundles for their customers.
Owned and drove 5 organization-level product OKRs across multiple quarters, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
Collaborated cross-functionally to meet Shopify standards, earning the 'Built for Shopify' badge and contributing to Fast Bundle reaching #1 in the App Store.
Initiated a continuous user interview loop and conducted regular usability tests leveraging fully interactive and AI-generated prototypes to uncover merchant needs.
Haamee Institute
|UI/UX Designer
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Summary
Redesigned Haamee's website to empower humanities students, improving resource accessibility and user experience.
Highlights
Redesigned Haamee's website to support its mission of empowering humanities students through financial aid and accessible resources.
Conducted user interviews and analyzed over 20 scholarship recipient experiences to uncover key user needs and inform design decisions.
Utilized card sorting to organize complex information and resources, and applied progressive disclosure to improve long-form usability.
Alef Art Studio
|UI/UX Designer
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Summary
Led strategic insights gathering and crafted intuitive UI/UX designs for 7 diverse websites, ensuring custom, responsive solutions.
Highlights
Led interviews with business owners to gather strategic insights, informing intuitive UI/UX designs for 7 websites across diverse sectors including beauty, e-commerce, culture, industrial painting, and advertising.
Built 3 of these websites on WordPress using Elementor, delivering custom, responsive designs efficiently with minimal coding.
Freelance
|Visual & Web Designer
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Summary
Initiated a freelance design career, creating diverse visual content and expanding into UI/web development for small businesses.
Highlights
Began design career as a freelance Visual & Web Designer, collaborating closely with clients to create posters, logos, Instagram visuals, motion clips, and film edits aligned with branding goals and deadlines.
Expanded into UI design and web development, building UIs and websites for 4 small businesses using WordPress, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Education
Sharif University of Technology
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Degree Program
Philosophy of Science
Sharif University of Technology
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Degree Program
Mechanical Engineering
Awards
Keynote Speaker
Awarded By
GenX 2024
Invited to deliver a keynote speech at the GenX 2024 conference, demonstrating expertise in product design innovation and impact.
Languages
English
Persian
Certificates
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) Courses
Issued By
Interaction Design Foundation
Uxcel Courses
Issued By
Uxcel
ADPList Achievements
Issued By
ADPList
Skills
Product & UX Strategy
Product Strategy, Ownership, Stakeholder Management, Mentorship, Agile Workflow, Continuous Discovery, User Interview, Competitor Analysis, Data Analysis, Problem Definition, Usability Testing, A/B Testing, Funnel Analysis.
Design & Prototyping
Design Systems, Visual & UI Design, User Flow, UX Writing, Prototyping with AI, Design Handoff.
Tools & Technologies
Figma, Make, Notion, Framer, Metabase, Smartlook, ChatGPT, NotebookLM, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Wordpress, Adobe CC, Elementor.