Overview
As a Product Designer before becoming a developer, I worked on delivering intuitive, consistent experiences for both streaming apps and web platforms.My approach combined hands-on design execution with active collaboration with backend and frontend teams to ensure every design decision translated seamlessly into production.
Key Features
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partnered daily with backend and frontend developers to design and implement new features across multiple platforms.
- Agile Workflow: Used JIRA for sprint planning and issue tracking, and followed Git-based workflows to coordinate design-to-dev handoffs.
- Developer-Friendly Handoffs: Produced detailed specs, structured asset libraries, and documented edge cases to reduce friction during implementation.
- Technical Advocacy: Anticipated technical constraints early, proposed design alternatives, and helped debug UI-related integration issues.
- Accessible & Consistent UI: Applied WCAG standards, enforced color-contrast and keyboard-navigation guidelines, and maintained scalable component libraries for consistent interfaces.
Technologies Used
- Figma & Sketch: For wireframing, prototyping, and iterative design reviews with engineers and stakeholders.
- HTML & CSS: To create interactive prototypes and validate feasibility before development.
- Design Systems & Tokens: Centralized colors, typography, and spacing for consistent cross-platform experiences.
- JIRA: For Agile sprint planning, task tracking, and progress reporting.
Challenges and Learnings
Balancing design quality with technical constraints was a constant challenge.Daily collaboration with developers improved my ability to anticipate feasibility issues early, refine handoffs, and contribute to debugging when designs met unexpected technical hurdles.
Outcome
This experience taught me to design for scalability, usability, and implementation efficiency.The strong collaboration culture I developed as a designer now informs my approach as a full-stack developer, bridging the gap between design vision and production reality.