Nihal Gudia
Nihal Gudia

Nihal Gudia

Hi, I'm a Lead Product designer at Yubi. Currently, I am working on innovating ways to collect debt from borrowers. My day-to-day routine includes challenging conventional norms and creating better debt management experiences for Financial Institutions & Borrowers.
 
 
 
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Major projects under NDA, Can do a walkthrough on a 1:1 call
 

👩🏻‍💻 Work experience

 

Lead Product Designer

Promoted from Senior Product Designer on Mar 2024 | Yubi, Hyderabad | Feb 2023 - Now
Cool stuff you can find in my year in review doc
 

Senior Product Designer

Promoted from Product Designer on Sep 2022 | LeapFinance, Banglore | Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Collaborated with Product Managers, Marketing, Sales, and CX to prioritize the right problems which can have the biggest impact for users.
  • Owned process from design to development and delivery of disbursement system for loan holders under 2 weeks reducing TAT by 33%
  • Redesigned the onboarding experience for customers, resulting in a 22% decrease in dropoff rates during loan application journey.
  • Designed new product offering providing users with a referral experience generating 150 leads within 1st week of launch
  • Conducted and oversaw various formative and generative user research to gain insights into our product offerings, including users' digital habits, interests, needs, and behaviors.
  • Managed a team of designers, continuously striving to foster a culture of learning and reviewing best practices.
 

Product Designer

Volopay, Banglore | Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Led the efforts to evangelise design across the organization and to create a culture of design thinking
  • Conducted a workshop on design and tools which led to huge dynamic shift in company and colleagues from multiple teams approaching to know more in how design can help their team succeed
  • Hired and managed 3 designers to scale up efforts to reduce the number of bugs in platform and understand users better.
 

Ui/Ux designer | Webflow Developer

17D North, Hyderabad | Feb 2020 - Apr 2021
17D north being a design agency, I worked closely with multiple clients and designed, developed, launched more than 10 websites successfully. I recommended that we try using webflow in-house to create website rather than shipping designs to another development agency.
  • Led the implementation of No-code tools like webflow, wordpress, notion to drive better deliverables along with our standard processes
  • Opened a new revenue stream using No-code that doubled our revenue
  • Reduced the dependency on external development agencies
  • Reduced the time to deliver a working project by 3 times
 

Ui/Ux designer

Openwifi Labs, Hyderabad | Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Spent my time being the voice of the customer and understanding how developers translated design into code to prepare better handoffs
  • Conducted field studies which led us to pivot our product into enterprise sector and drive up revenue
 

Ui/Ux designer

Freelance \ Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Worked with clients from varying industries to deliver the right solutions for their business.
 

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