# Aditya Gujaran — Senior Product Designer

[adityagujaran.me](https://adityagujaran.me) | aditya.gujaran@gmail.com | Lisbon, Portugal (GMT+1) | [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/agujaran/)

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## Summary

Versatile product designer with a practice grounded in rigorous UX research to enable high-velocity product delivery. 10+ years of experience across B2B SaaS, AI/ML tooling, consumer mobile, and insurance products. 

Works at the overlap of product strategy, user research, interaction design, and visual craft. 

Particular focus on 0→1 problem-solving. Available right now & open to relocation.

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## Experience

### Bounce — Senior Product Designer
*Lisbon, Portugal | Aug 2024 – Oct 2025 (1 yr 2 mo)*

- Built out the end-to-end lockers product experience from 0→1
- Reduced the cancellation rate from 65% to 12% (down 81.5%)
- Created holistic customer journey maps of lockers customers

**Case study:** [Lockers PUDO — Bounce](https://adityagujaran.me/lockers-reducing-cancellation.html) — Reduced cancellation rate to prove product-market fit for a new locker pick-up/drop-off use case. Skills: Interaction design, Continuous discovery.

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### Unbabel — Senior Product Designer
*Lisbon, Portugal | Feb 2020 – Feb 2023 (3 yrs)*

- Remodelled a file translation touchpoint to serve a new use case
- Crafted the interface to interact with Unbabel's award-winning quality estimation AI

**Case study:** [The Decision Module — Unbabel](https://adityagujaran.me/decision-module.html) — Made Unbabel's AI quality-estimation model operable by ops linguists without specialist engineers — translating ML reasoning into a legible, actionable UI. Skills: Interaction design, AI/ML interfaces.

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### Freelance — Product Designer and Service Designer
*Lisbon, Portugal | Jun 2016 – Dec 2019 (3 yrs 5 mo)*

- Reimagined the tedious EU car accident claim form as a friendly chatbot for a project with Cocoon Experience
- Led the concept and UX design of Woorti, a public transport app to help researchers using gamification for the Motiv project

**Case study:** [TRQ DAD — Cocoon](https://adityagujaran.me/trq-dad.html) — Mobile chatbot for filing insurance claims after a car accident. Stripped verbose forms to their essentials. Skills: Service design, Conversational UI.

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### Novabase — Experience Design Consultant
*Lisbon, Portugal | May 2013 – Oct 2015 (2 yrs 4 mo)*

- Led the concept and UX design of Oneride, an urban mobility app
- Led the concept and UX design of Wizzio, a tablet banking app

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### Google — User Experience Research Intern
*Mountain View, United States | Jun 2012 – Sept 2012 (3 mo)*

- Conducted a benchmarking study for Google+ Photos
- Periodic usability testing of early prototypes of Google+ Events

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## Education

**Carnegie Mellon University**
MS in Human Computer Interaction | Dec 2012 | Pittsburgh, United States

**University of Mumbai**
BE in Information Technology | Jun 2011 | Mumbai, India

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## Portfolio Project List

| Project | Company | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Lockers PUDO | Bounce | [lockers-reducing-cancellation.html](https://adityagujaran.me/lockers-reducing-cancellation.html) |
| The Decision Module | Unbabel | [decision-module.html](https://adityagujaran.me/decision-module.html) |
| TRQ DAD | Cocoon (Freelance) | [trq-dad.html](https://adityagujaran.me/trq-dad.html) |

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## Design Methods

Opportunity Trees, Competitive Analysis, Data Analysis, Contextual Inquiry, Surveys, Personas, Wireframing, Prototyping, Think Alouds, Product Instrumentation

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## Design Tools

Miro, FigJam, Mixpanel, Metabase, Figma, Framer, Maze, Dovetail, Lyssna, v0, Claude Code, Cursor, Arduino and circuits

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## Certificates

- Growth for Product Managers — OneMonthPM, Sept 2023
- Business Value of Design — Designer Fund, Apr 2022

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## Publications

- *The Perception and Value of Time in the context of Urban Mobility* — UXUC 2019
- *Fall of Humans: Interactive Tabletop Games and Transmedia Storytelling* — ITS 2015

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