Hello,
I'm Junaid Rana.

Calgary based Product Designer, with over 4 years of experience working with startups, creating user-centric products and elevating brands.

Calgary based Product Designer, with over 4 years of experience working with startups, creating user-centric products and elevating brands.

Calgary based Product Designer, with over 4 years of experience working with startups, creating user-centric products and elevating brands.

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Work Experience

January 2024 - Present

Calgary, CAnada

Product Designer | Motiv Digital

  • Led design for various end-to-end projects requiring stakeholder management, user-research, problem identification and high-fidelity design with dev-handoff, with quick turnarounds on end solutions.

  • Successfully executed design for Huddl web app, a Motiv Venture Studio project in MVP stage, with the first launch at YYC DataCon 2024. Both the admin back-end and user web app design being completed within 10 days, demonstrating the ability to complete projects within strict deadlines.

  • Working with clients (H&R Block Canada and Common Future among others) to increase usability, accessibility and experience of their websites and products based on the changing organizational goals.

January 2024 - Present

Calgary, CAnada

Product Designer | Motiv Digital

  • Led design for various end-to-end projects requiring stakeholder management, user-research, problem identification and high-fidelity design with dev-handoff, with quick turnarounds on end solutions.

  • Successfully executed design for Huddl web app, a Motiv Venture Studio project in MVP stage, with the first launch at YYC DataCon 2024. Both the admin back-end and user web app design being completed within 10 days, demonstrating the ability to complete projects within strict deadlines.

  • Working with clients (H&R Block Canada and Common Future among others) to increase usability, accessibility and experience of their websites and products based on the changing organizational goals.

January 2024 - Present

Calgary, CAnada

Product Designer | Motiv Digital

  • Led design for various end-to-end projects requiring stakeholder management, user-research, problem identification and high-fidelity design with dev-handoff, with quick turnarounds on end solutions.

  • Successfully executed design for Huddl web app, a Motiv Venture Studio project in MVP stage, with the first launch at YYC DataCon 2024. Both the admin back-end and user web app design being completed within 10 days, demonstrating the ability to complete projects within strict deadlines.

  • Working with clients (H&R Block Canada and Common Future among others) to increase usability, accessibility and experience of their websites and products based on the changing organizational goals.

September 2021 - April 2023

Pakistan

Product Designer | CreditBook

  • Financing Squad: Led design for several key Fintech specific experiences and new initiatives such as MSME Financing, SME Financing Web App, new Onboarding Experiences and more.

  • Leading design for a centralized Loan Management System intended for end-to-end application management through a single portal, resulting in efficiency in the overall lending team operations.

  • Spearheaded the launch of an in-app social sharing video feature that allowed 40,000 Unique Users to create a customized ad for their business ft. Pakistan Cricket Team Captain, Babar Azam.

  • Collaborated with various stakeholders to identify user pain points, brainstorming with the team on different features during the discovery and ideation stage, working on low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes, and creating micro-interactions and animations.

  • Helped create product strategy by putting user-centric design ideas brought up through usability testing, field research, and ​​data obtained through product usage.

September 2021 - April 2023

PAkistan

Product Designer | CreditBook

  • Financing Squad: Led design for several key Fintech specific experiences and new initiatives such as MSME Financing, SME Financing Web App, new Onboarding Experiences and more.

  • Leading design for a centralized Loan Management System intended for end-to-end application management through a single portal, resulting in efficiency in the overall lending team operations.

  • Spearheaded the launch of an in-app social sharing video feature that allowed 40,000 Unique Users to create a customized ad for their business ft. Pakistan Cricket Team Captain, Babar Azam.

  • Collaborated with various stakeholders to identify user pain points, brainstorming with the team on different features during the discovery and ideation stage, working on low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes, and creating micro-interactions and animations.

  • Helped create product strategy by putting user-centric design ideas brought up through usability testing, field research, and ​​data obtained through product usage.

September 2021 - April 2023

Pakistan

Product Designer | CreditBook

  • Financing Squad: Led design for several key Fintech specific experiences and new initiatives such as MSME Financing, SME Financing Web App, new Onboarding Experiences and more.

  • Leading design for a centralized Loan Management System intended for end-to-end application management through a single portal, resulting in efficiency in the overall lending team operations.

  • Spearheaded the launch of an in-app social sharing video feature that allowed 40,000 Unique Users to create a customized ad for their business ft. Pakistan Cricket Team Captain, Babar Azam.

  • Collaborated with various stakeholders to identify user pain points, brainstorming with the team on different features during the discovery and ideation stage, working on low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes, and creating micro-interactions and animations.

  • Helped create product strategy by putting user-centric design ideas brought up through usability testing, field research, and ​​data obtained through product usage.

July 2020 - august 2021

Pakistan

Design Lead | FindMyAdventure

  • Led initiatives for designing digital and print marketing collateral as well as brand assets for FindMyAdventure - a travel startup.

  • Collaborated with different departments for the creation of a cohesive brand design language that helped scale marketing design as well as product design collateral. 

  • Collaborated with the marketing team to work on projects which included UI/UX, video production and animation, and collateral for BTL & ATL marketing
    Managed and supervised a 2-person design team, created processes that helped setup design as a separate function in the organization.

July 2020 - august 2021

Pakistan

Design Lead | FindMyAdventure


  • Led initiatives for designing digital and print marketing collateral as well as brand assets for FindMyAdventure - a travel startup.

  • Collaborated with different departments for the creation of a cohesive brand design language that helped scale marketing design as well as product design collateral. 

  • Collaborated with the marketing team to work on projects which included UI/UX, video production and animation, and collateral for BTL & ATL marketing
    Managed and supervised a 2-person design team, created processes that helped setup design as a separate function in the organization.

July 2020 - august 2021

Pakistan

Design Lead | FindMyAdventure

  • Led initiatives for designing digital and print marketing collateral as well as brand assets for FindMyAdventure - a travel startup.

  • Collaborated with different departments for the creation of a cohesive brand design language that helped scale marketing design as well as product design collateral. 

  • Collaborated with the marketing team to work on projects which included UI/UX, video production and animation, and collateral for BTL & ATL marketing
    Managed and supervised a 2-person design team, created processes that helped setup design as a separate function in the organization.

January 2020 – December 2020

Pakistan

Freelance Web Designer/Animator | Media Matters for Democracy

Worked on campaigns related to awareness of social media rules and regulations in Pakistan. Also created the website for one of the departments (https://advocacy.digitalrightsmonitor.pk/)

January 2020 – December 2020

Pakistan

Freelance Web Designer/Animator | Media Matters for Democracy

Worked on campaigns related to awareness of social media rules and regulations in Pakistan. Also created the website for one of the departments (https://advocacy.digitalrightsmonitor.pk/)

January 2020 – December 2020

Pakistan

Freelance Web Designer/Animator | Media Matters for Democracy

Worked on campaigns related to awareness of social media rules and regulations in Pakistan. Also created the website for one of the departments (https://advocacy.digitalrightsmonitor.pk/)