Shanil Patel
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I help create positive impact.

Whether you're a startup or an established brand. I'm here to help create value for your business, users, and the communities we serve.

Research

I help you understand your users, how they interact with your product, and the markets you serve through lean research.

So you can:

Go to market with conviction
Uncover areas of opportunity
Understand your users and the markets you serve

Skills:

  • User research
  • Journey mapping
  • Persona development
  • Insight synthesis
  • Competitor analysis
  • Usability testing

Strategy

I work with you to align UX needs with business and user goals to move forward with confidence.

So you can:

Align and move in a common direction
Reduce churn
Plan and execute with confidence

Skills:

  • Workshops
  • UX roadmaps
  • Vision definition
  • Design system implementation
  • UX strategy

Design Execution

I create functional, aesthetically pleasing and impactful design that delivers value and experiences your users will love.

So you can:

Create an online presence with your brand
Provide value for customers
Convert customers

Skills:

  • UI / UX Design
  • Design systems
  • Information architecture
  • Prototyping
  • Interaction design
Amazon Web Services - 2024

Defining and delivering a vision

Inspiring a global community to re-think data exploration and co-creating with them to deliver in the open source.

Amazon Web Services - 2024

Designing a generative AI query assistant

Leveraging research, rapid prototyping, and UX design to test and launch a query assistant for an analytics application.

Equinix - 2020

Finding the best solution for users and business

Leveraging user research, competitive analysis, and design to evaluate the feasibility of re-building a data center monitoring tool.

"If I were to paint Shanil as a metaphor, he would be a 7-in-1 flashlight compass tool. He is able to undertake any challenge we throw at him; from complex service design to interaction design, visual interface design as well as front-end development. He encompasses the flow and stature of a seasoned practitioner who is hungry to grow at every step. Alongside this, he is incredibly humble and has such deep empathy for his teammates and clients. He’s always willing to go the extra mile to get us where we need to be."

Lisa Hong
Design Director - Myplanet

Shanil is an incredibly talented and driven UX designer. When we brought him onboard our team we tasked him with exploring the next generation experience for searching logs in OpenSearch and asked him to perform this exploration in the open. Shanil embraced this, and every other challenge we gave him. Not only did he end up designing delightful new experiences for our customers, but he did so in a way that helped drive the open source vision for OpenSearch. I'd love to work with Shanil again in the future and recommend him for any UX challenge.

Eli Fisher
Senior Manager - Product Management - Amazon Web Services

Shanil is one of the great minds, who, luckily, decided to apply his exceptional talents for system thinking and creativity in the space of UX design. During our time at AWS I had a privilege to watch Shanil solving hugely ambiguous and complex problems and him working through many layers of getting stakeholders alignment to bring the solutions to life. Shanil is a great mentor and one of the most wonderful people I met through my career.

Xenia Tupitsyna
UX Designer - Amazon Web Services

Shanil joined OpenSearch as a Senior Designer, and made a big difference in helping us define and evolve our data querying and exploration experiences in OpenSearch Dashboards.This is a complex domain with many technical challenges. Shanil's generosity of spirit and calm demeanor helped cut through the noise and evolve our data exploration journey. Any team would be lucky to have him.

Kevin Garcia
UX Manager - OpenSearch Project - Amazon Web Services

Shanil was attentive to my needs and created a website that exceeded expectations - it's now a home for my body of work as well as a launching pad for new clients.He was patient in guiding me through the Webflow process - teaching me how to update the content as I go on my own. Overall, Shanil is a creative problem-solver and clever designer that anyone would have the utmost pleasure working with.

Esther Cheung
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