When you create a brand new product, enter an existing market, or innovate on past successes, user research is a powerful tool to gather insights from users and build the right thing.
We’ve been entirely redesigning the Chicagoist identity and product with Chance The Rapper. We can’t talk about it yet but it’s going to be great! As part of our work with Chance, we also created a site for the 2019 Chicago alderman election.
AE Studio is putting us in the best possible position. I was most impressed with how quickly they were able to get tasks done even when they were super complicated and took a heavy-lift. They always delivered.
We planned over 40 user interviews in less than 5 days in Chicago, drawing insights for the business model & product development next steps.
nJoy is a retail-tech app that connects local retailers with customers and travellers. Throughout a 3 month long, we have had over 200 conversations with business owners and employees in the retail, luxury and hospitality world. This in depth research and insights lead to closing our first contract with a major luxury hotel, as well as bring nJoy through another successful round of funding.
The team at AE Studio allowed us to quickly get in front of users and secure our first strategic partnership. They were able to get up to speed on our complex product in record time, while iterating on our first version by constantly collecting user feedback.
We met over 100 business owners, managers & employees over a period of 3 months, leading to closing a contract with a leading hotel for a unique retail experience and implementing user feedback directly in the app and program.
üNiFi is an innovative cryptocurrency platform that allows users to borrow, lend and earn interest on their crypto. We've been designing the üNiFi website, as well as running a full user research project. Collecting feedback from users in the cryptocurrency space allowed us to think strategically in order to build the next iteration of the product.
We were super impressed by the team's at AE Studio. Their ability to listen to our ideas, build our website quickly and iterate on it by collecting honest, unbiased feedback from potential users in just a matter of days definitely helped us build the right thing!
We met with cryptocurrency and blockchain experts with diverse level of expertise based in multiple countries
We did a deep research dive into how we could help improve the onboarding experience for new SmartSuite users. We handed off a backlog of recommendations and examples of improvements prioritized by impact and effort.
Conducted Heuristic Evaluation (UX Audit) Interviewed 6 diverse SmartSuite users UX & onboarding feature analysis of 8 competitive tools
We ran a design sprint around how Boyd might level-up their rewards program through the use of blockchain x NFTs. We handed off proof of concept tappable designs of a gamified NFT reward program with custom branding and a plan for further validating with the target audience.
Comparative analysis of how other gaming reward programs and large companies have offered blockchain reward programs, highlighting commonalities & opportunities. On ground collaborative product strategy and design workshop to hone in on a direction.
Our product designers are highly collaborative and make your ideas into products users love.
UX/Product Designer & Manager with 10+ years of experience across startups, large companies and agencies. Launched web and mobile apps focused on automation, data analysis, gamification, and much more.
Product Designer & Manager with 10+ years of experience in multiple verticals such as SaaS, E-commerce, Fintech, Mobility, and Healthcare. Cristian takes a holistic approach to product design & development and strives to provide an engaging user experience for every single stakeholder involved in the project he's working on.
Product designer & manager & leader who has designed digital products used by millions of people worldwide. Has shipped web, mobile, and IoT products for companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Also taught UX research and design at the City University of New York where his curriculum led to the university’s first accredited UX program. His students have gone on to work for organizations like PayPal, Dropbox, and The Interaction Design Foundation.