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My Story

It started in my first year of college when I noticed a design problem in the college's poster and went up to solve it, and ever since I solve problems + I enjoy creating things, I mean yeh, I am the one who use to draw on history book characters and make them look cool😝

Back in 2011, I wanted to edit a picture of mine with my favorite musician, but how? I don't know photoshop! so what? I know how to get things done, I opened up ms paint and after hours of hard work, the musician and I were together on the canvas.😎 Soon I started learning Photoshop, Illustrator and other design tools.

In our locality, I was the go-to person to get pictures edited, Things didn't stop there I was selected as a designer for my college, where I use to design posters, certificates, college fests branding, and other college merchandise.

Soon the college was over but my hunger to design was not, I kept designing which helped me to land up in an MNC as a Graphic Designer, I worked there for around 3.5 years in which I got opportunities to work on multiple projects with different teams and managers and it was a great learning experience for me.

In 2019 I choose to quit my full-time job and started working as an Independent Designer to reach out to more people and add value to their products/services by designing solutions that helped them to achieve their business goals.

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Why I do Designing

By now you know my story how and why I started, but why did I continue? and chose Designing as my career?

I am a curious person, and a Design thinker, every time I see people performing tasks either it be a digital or traditional, I start thinking and asking questions like, why, how and what they are doing, and these questions lead to answers which make the task easier by optimizing the process. As I enjoyed the process of understanding people and what they want, how they want and why they want it, & delivering them beyond their expectations on time, that's what makes me do what I do.

The curious kid in me is still hungry to deliver values to the people. I just don't ask few questions sit back and analyze them to create pretty designs, I sit with my clients to work around the strategies that will help them to launch successfully in the market, I often discuss how they gonna market it, how they gonna make it cost-efficient and a lot more questions, Why? because it helps me and the client to take things to another level and make better overall decisions and deliver a better product to the end-users.

Experience

  • (2019 - Present) Product Designer

    As I started working independently, I got a glimpse of the other side i.e How to manage business, teams, Get clients on board, Marketing, Managing projects, Judging the timeline for projects and much more.

    I got amazing opportunities to work with Start-ups, Individuals, Unorganized businesses and helped them to solve their problems. While working on these diverse projects and companies I have to adopt different working processes. Some project demands an Agile working system while some demanded more of a slow approach and it is a great experience to switch between them.

    So far I had worked on Products, Mobile applications, Dashboards, Single page applications, Kiosks, Websites, Branding & Strategy all alone and in some, other experts had joined me as well. I enjoy working, either way, that's solo as Batman, or with a team like Avengers.

    I had worked in domains like Advertising, Music, Finance, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Offline & Online Security, Threat Intelligence, E-Commerce, HR Management & More.

    Recently I got selected as a Writer at UX Collective.

  • (2018 - 2019) UI Developer

    I shifted my career from a UI/UX Designer to a UI Developer in Directi, which has a competitive team, That was a challenge and I enjoyed that experience.

    As a Developer, I use to take care of the front end of the projects, I use to develop Ads, Emailers, Landers to full-fledged E-commerce Websites.

    It helped me as a Product Designer to think beyond just a good looking User Interface and Think of how it will function, the logic behind it and how it gonna work on different screen sizes their interactions and much more. All these aspects had helped me to design products that are more user-friendly and efficient. This role helped me go on another level as a Design Thinker.

  • (2015 - 2018) Graphic Designer

    I started working professionally as a Graphic Designer in Media.net. Initially, I started with assisting my seniors on their projects, in this phase I learned how they are using and bending designing rules to get the best outcomes. soon I was handover to work on individual projects with few freshers, where my core responsibility was to train them and give necessary design feedback to them. As a designer, I got opportunities to work on Ads, Banner Designing, SERPs, Micro websites, Landers, E-commerce websites, Blogs, and train freshers for the same.

    This helped me to gain expertise in optimizing websites and creating a conversion based Landing page, and Ads.

    I use to work on digital advertising and designing marketing collateral for Brands like - Forbes, MSN, Meredith, and other Media.net clients

Education

  • 2020 - Motion graphics & data visualization

    This was an online course from Udemy

    Here I learned the fundamentals of Motion Graphics and how to incorporate the same in Data Visualizations.

  • 2015 - Bachelor of Commerce

    I completed my bachelor's from L.S Raheja College (Mumbai University)

    I use to lead the organizing team of the college. We use to plan out the event, make budgets and plan out other requirements. Once planning was done We use to present it to the college teachers and college management for approvals

    In the Bachelor of commerce course, I learned about Business Management, Marketing, and fundamentals of bookkeeping. In the final year, I choose Financial management as my specialty and my favorite was cost-cutting and marketing out of all.

    As the head of the designing team, I use to take care of the college merch and other marketing collaterals. I use to plan out how to send merch out, how to market college's yearly events with my team.

    Beyond all the above, I use to participate in events like - Chess, Street Play, Debates, Skits

  • 2013 - Graphic Designing

    I completed a Graphic Design Course from Arena Animation

    Here I learned Fundamentals of Graphic Designing and Tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, to execute my ideation as a Graphic Designer.

Challenges

I enjoy challenging my self! They help me to keep the excitement high in life as well as they help me to grow as an individual. I believe we all should take up some challenges!

Here are a few challenges I have done so far! Next time you meet me ask what challenges I am doing if you run out of topics to talk 😋

  • 100 Days of UI
  • 30 Days of JS
  • UX Bootcamp
  • 5am Club
  • Ninja Writer
  • 100 Days of Reading

How I do it?

  • Photoshop
  • Adobe Xd
  • After Effects
  • Premier Pro
  • Illustrator
  • Lightroom
  • JavaScript
  • Sketch
  • Figma
  • Invision
  • Google Analytics
  • HTML/CSS
  • Jira
  • React
  • JQuery
  • PHP
  • Wordpress
  • Git

Hiten Rajgor

Hiten Rajgor is a full-stack designer. Hiten Create Designs that Solve User problems and Create Strategies aligned with Business and Customers.

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