I Love to solve Design & Development problems

I Am Jaffar Kazi a Developer a UX Designer

I Am a UX Designer

I am Jaffar Kazi a UX designer based in Sydney, Australia, with lots of experience as a developer and a consultant. I've worked on solutions across the world; UK, US, UAE and Australia. I started with UX when UX and UCD was not a common term in software development. I work hard to change people's perspectives to a user's requirements and their problems because the user accepts and uses your system. I am a full stack problem solver.

My expertise is in UX Research, UX Strategy, wireframing and prototyping. But my main focus is and always will be the user and his problems.


Education
  • Academy Xi, Sydney

    UX Design

  • University of Pune, India

    Masters in Computer Science


Experience
  • Software Engineer

    Boardroom Pty Ltd

  • Altius Consulting

    Senior Consultant

  • Xerox Emirates

    Consultant


My Skills
User Research90%
UX Strategy 80%
Wireframing, Prototyping & User Testing 90%
User Centred Design 75%

My UX Process

UX Research

Deep understanding of the problems and realities of the people you are designing for. It involves learning about the difficulties people face, as well as uncovering their latent needs and desires in order to explain their behaviours. Empathic research reveals the deeper needs and root causes, which, if addressed correctly, may profoundly change the project we're investigating.

Strategy

A great definition of your problem statement will guide you and your team’s work and kick start the ideation process in the right direction. It will bring about clarity and focus to the design space. The How Might We questions open up to Ideation sessions where you explore ideas, which can help you solve your design challenge in an innovative way.

Ideate

It is the stage you combine the understanding you have of the problem space and people you are designing for with your imagination to generate solution concepts with key stakeholders. Particularly early in a design project, ideation is about pushing for a widest possible range of ideas from which you can select, not simply finding a single, best solution.

Prototyping

Prototyping quickly, and frequently, is the best way to test your assumptions, learn about users, and improve on your ideas. A ‘thinking by doing’ mindset is extremely helpful in letting you derive more value from researching, defining, ideating, and testing. Prototyping helps create a bias towards action and opportunities for creative serendipity — the innovative spark you need to create truly useful and revolutionary solutions.

User Testing

Bring your ideas onto a tangible plane, which will enable you and your team to see and discuss the pros and cons, to learn from users’ feedback, and to create little opportunities with big impacts. Users are prompted to share ideas of how the prototype can be changed or improved so as to address some concerns or issues. This is an avenue to collect negative feedback and constructive criticism in order to improve.

MVP Development

Help accelerate the teams’ learning regarding what the customer actually wants/needs whilst using rapid iteration to deliver that. Minimize the number of wasted hours spent by the development team by focusing on a minimal number of features for launch. You can go to market faster and thus, theoretically, start to raise sales revenues faster than if you develop the fully featured final product for launch.

500+

Screens

300+

Happy Users

10+

Years Experience

30+

Satisfied Customers

My Portfolio Artifacts

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Testimonials

I had the pleasure of working with Jaffar as part of a collaboration between Academy Xi and Mad Paws, for an on-demand dog walking project. I was particularly impressed by Jaffar’s quick ability to capture the requirements of the project, to conduct research and market analysis in order to find a problem/solution fit. That skill often takes years to develop in project delivery, and in just under 2 weeks, Jaffar and his team were able to develop a thorough solution in a very limited time. Jaffar also made sure the solution was presented in a very clear, concise manner. His team’s insights have already been valuable and brought into our organisation. Jaffar would be an asset to any team.

Nathalie Rafeh
Growth Manager at Mad Paws

Jaffar helped explore a product concept over a one week period. The project involved interviewing prospective users, affinity mapping their responses, conducting ideation with important stakeholders, building a prototype and performing user testing. Jaffar worked with another student and considering the short time available, he produced fantastic output which was both thoughtful and detailed. I enjoyed working with Jaffar and we were delighted with the outcome. I wish Jaffar the very best progressing his passion and talent for product development.

Justin Butterworth
Founder and CEO at Snug

I worked with Jaffar on business critical projects and know that he always gives you 110%. More recently he was one of the key developers in enhancing our current Australian system to operate in a Singaporean market. The time frames were tough but Jaffar really went the extra mile, making sure his tasks were always completed ahead of the schedule and to a high quality. He assisted other developers and was the go to guy to turn something around quickly. Great attitude and person to work with.

Mark Saliba
General Manager at BoardRoom Pty Ltd

My Case Studies

Web & Tablet App

Transmittal Management System

The engineering transmittal management system is used for maintaining letter chains and authorisations for an engineering project…

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Artifacts

Miscellaneous Workshops

Artifacts and processes from other workshops and activities

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Mobile App

New Credit Card Payment Processor

CCP is already processing payments for merchants in-store, with card present. However, they want to now be able to allow their merchant to accept credit cards online.…

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Mobile App

On Demand Dog Walking Services

The client wanted us to investigate how a new on demand dog walking service would be accepted and used among their existing patrons …

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Website

UpGear Finance

UpGear is an upcoming leasing finance company for high technology products. It is making leasing of such products easier, especially for businesses who need these products but do not want to purchase them …

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Get In Touch

Email

theuxgeek1 AT gmail.com

Address

Sydney, Australia