Michelle Harjani
Product Designer (Remote / Vancouver)
I strive to design and build the future by creating innovative products that deliver great experiences for customers. I enjoy taking on a good challenge and learning on the job. I follow through on my work and help turn ideas into products and features that help solve problems.
Started my adventures in tech by designing and developing over 40 iOS apps that topped 150 #1s in the Apple App Store!
I went from working on my own to leading design and product teams for big clients as part of a digital agency. Now I’m a designer at 37signals and am working on Basecamp and HEY.
Selected Recent Work
2021 – Present
Basecamp 4
Product Design, Web Development
Designed Doors to add links on a project’s main screen
Designed Campfire/Pings enhancements: editing lines and text styles and formatting
HEY
Product Design, Web Development
Designed a new way to refine search results in HEY
Designed Bubble Up, HEY’s fresh take on snooze
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Selected Agency Work
2017 – 2021
Royal Dutch Shell
Product Design
Designed an internal enterprise platform. From learning domain knowledge, designing UX and UI, and conducting user interviews. This project was featured in Satya Nadella’s 2018 Microsoft Ignite Vision Keynote.
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Relativity Space
Marketing Design, Web Development
Led the design and development of the Relativity site and managed all client communication during the project. The goal was to create the company website that stands out from the industry and reflect the Relativity brand.
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Getting Started as a Product Designer
2016
Basecamp 3
Product Design, Web Development
As a product design intern at Basecamp in 2016, I learned Ruby on Rails and worked on a handful of projects in Basecamp 3 from A/B testing to experimenting and prototyping a feature from scratch.
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UrtheCast – GSIV
Product Design, Web Development
Designed a web app that visualizes the complex systems involved to send an image request to space, have it downlink to Earth, and process through systems before it’s published on the web.
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App Design & Development
2010 – 2013
Kaya Life (Case Study)
Product Design
An ecosystem of a series of products designed to help individuals with diabetes live their lives easier and with less pain. This ecosystem offers a prick-less, bloodless way to measure glucose and ketone levels.
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Mobile App Design & Development
App Design, App Development
Started designing and developing mobile apps in 2010 for fans to keep up with their favourite fandom. Topped 150 #1s in the Apple App Store, ranging from the #1 highest-ranked and highest-grossing sports, news, entertainment, and reference apps, to the #1 overall paid and #1 overall free app as well.