Harshit Beniwal

Product Designer

About

Product designer with 4+ YOE, currently based in India with a keen interest in emerging technologies and an expertise in 0→1 product design.
Tool fanatic, software tinkerer and citizen of the internet.

Currently shaping how software teams bridge the privacy-engineering gap in products with Privado, in the past I have worked with Fold, Thursday & Thence and a few other talented teams and built some very exciting products with them.

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Work Experience

2023 — Now
Remote

Helping software teams bridge the privacy-engineering gap in products.

  • Led design for core product features and oversaw their end-to-end development. Notable projects: Privacy Assessments redesign, CICD Setup, Login/Signup, Notifications System, Overview pages overhaul, Collaboration layer, Bulk actions, Data Tables, Third party Integrations, Mobile app scanning.

  • Developed the design system and product visual language to align more cohesively with the broader brand and support the rapidly growing product. Colors, typography, layouts, components, icons and motion design tokens.

  • Helped design team with the revamp of the marketing website, including brand, illustrations, and web design.

2023 — 2023
Remote

Helped the team with projects on both web and mobile platforms. Some notable projects: Iconography, Themes, Refunds, Tagging, Merchant selection, Pitch Deck.

2021 — 2023
Remote

Leading the Product and design. Thursday is a platform for remote teams to build strong culture by inculcating social events into the workplace. Some things that I worked on:

  • 0 → 1 Product and brand conception
  • User research & product discovery through 25+ interviews and meta-analysis.
  • Led the operations of our design system to help larger team ship faster. This effort resulted in our product launch in less than 3 months, followed by the creating and launching a new activity every month.
  • Designed over 6 marketing websites, which resulted in multiple product launches, attracting new users each time and creating an organic lead-generating funnel.
  • Web app design, Interaction design, Prototyping with novel technologies like facial detection, AI and machine learning.
  • Product Hunt product of the year (Golden Kitty Awards).
  • 100+ teams, 10k+ socials hosted
  • Average rating: 4.8/5, a significant improvement from launch rating due to constant improvements in product experience.
2021 — 2021
Remote

Listener is a tool for software teams to conduct user research. Built on Zoom, Listener allows you to highlight key moments from your user interviews and share them with your entire team, bringing the user's voice to the forefront. Some projects I worked on:

  • Onboarding experience: Converting founder onboarding into a self-serve process.
  • Design System: scaling and streamlining the operation and execution speed of design team.
  • Visual guidelines: creating a guide for Listener's new interface design, including colors, typography, and grids.
  • Project redesign: redesigned core module inside Listener, Projects, enhancing modularity of user content and an overall better experience.
2020 — 2021
Remote

Worked on AngelOne, one of India's largest stock trading platform, focusing on designing their web experience.

  • Creating a professional tool for experienced traders that provides tools for in-deep analysis and quick order execution.
  • User research: Understanding traders' needs and translating them into actionable insights.
  • Competitor Analysis: understanding the market offering and identifying the gaps.
  • Information Architecture: Providing various types of trading—intraday, positional, and holding—while ensuring the interface remains simple to navigate.
  • Project Management: Collaborating with AngelOne stakeholders to align on key directions.
  • Other responsibilities included ideation, wire-framing, audits, prototyping, visual design.

Side Projects

2022

After 6 months of steady progress my personal website is (almost) ready. Designed in Figma, made in Framer, and built in public.
With loads of hidden details, a couple of projects and vibes all around. Explore!

2021
Almost Design 2.0

Redesigned V2 of my digital playground

2020
Almost Design

Built a no-code portfolio website, without using any templates and themes. Helped me understand the basic functionality, working and possibilities of HTML & CSS

Writing

2022

A story of making my first product, from 0→1.