Suwardhan Ahirrao
Product Designer | 8+ years experience | Enterprise SAAS and Design Systems | Worked with teams at Nutanix, Recko (acquired by Stripe), Clarisights, and more.
About
Hi, I’m Suwardhan, a Product designer making interfaces more usable and experiences a bit more friendly.
Recently, I have been working with teams in the Enterprise domain, helping them design or redesign enterprise apps in Finance, Accounting, Cloud security, Marketing, and Edu-tech domain. In parallel, I take a special interest in supporting design teams with a consistent design library. You can check my project with Recko about the same here.
In my spare time, always open to chatting about cricket, video games, mountains & obviously, design.
Contact: suwardhan@gmail.com
Experience
Senior Product Designer · Jun 2022 - Present
Leading feature design on core and growth initiatives. Focus on the internal tools for Logistics Operations managers in China and EU region. In parallel, supporting the leadership in establishing Forto’s Design function.
Product Designer · Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
Leading the design efforts for ScaleXP software experience. Establishing value proposition for upcoming product features and taking ownership in defining Design principles, creating user-journey flows, prototyping high-fidelity mockups, and building a component library. Also helping set up the company's design function.
UX Designer · Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Working with the Berlin design team (remotely), establishing the value proposition and shaping the Vulnerability Scanner user experience - a new product offering to improve software security hygiene for enterprise cloud.
UX Design Consultant · Feb 2019 - May 2021
Led the redesign process of Custom Dimensions (CD) - a core product feature. In collaboration with the customer success team, designed, tested, and shipped experiences to increase CD value creation by 2.2x.
UX Design Consultant · May 2020 - Dec 2020
Took ownership of the Recko Design System (DS). Defined the principles, laid the DS foundation, created and documented the UI library, and set internal handoff practices to enforce DS adoption; helping to reduce the development time by ~40%.
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
Designed the OS experience for Voice Assistant device WooHoo from scratch. Also worked on voice flow builder platform - creating a separate distribution channel for enterprise customers for their custom apps.
Design Cofounder · July 2015 - Oct 2017
Overseeing a team of 6, managed the entire design process for each client, delivering seamless product-building experience.
Side projects
Thesemetrics.com
I help @znck build a privacy focussed analytics tool. Till April ‘21, TheseMetrics logged 16 million page views.
Narendravaluers.com
NKA Valuers is a Govt. registered property appraiser company in Mumbai, India. I helped them set up a system to manage and track all the property appraisers since 2018. More than 12,000 appraiser cases have been handled till Dec 2021.