Hello, I'm Shimi Varghese, and I design user-centered experiences that enhance human lives and drive business growth.

With over 10+ years of experience in B2B, B2C, and SaaS, I am a passionate product designer dedicated to crafting user-centric designs that create meaningful experiences and drive real value for businesses. And I truly enjoy what I do.

Most recently, I worked at Mobicip, the leading parental control app. Before that, I was at PupleTalk, one of India’s fastest-growing service and product companies, and earlier at Excelsoft.

Testimonials

Working with Shimi was a rare pleasure, for many reasons, but primarily for her keen ability to conceptualize and design with the bigger picture always in mind. Shimi's creative approach was thorough, in her forward-thinking considerations that extended beyond the "here and now" of a project. It is with this high-level view, that Shimi is also laser-focused in her UI+UX design work that not only aligns with the project needs, and brand requirements - but it adds a some extra sugar with smart user-centered interaction design

Jamie McInnes
Billy Zinser
Experience Design + Product Delivery Leader
7-Eleven

Shimi has been a pleasure to work with. Her dedication to the team, and the company, her positive attitude to take on projects of any size, her impeccable time management - consistently meeting deadlines and her work ethic are commendable and will make her a great asset to any team. She has conducted secondary user research, developed prototypes, UI/UX and visual designs for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac devices and can quickly translate design elements across these platforms. During her tenure at Mobicip, she has cultivated deep relationships with the development, product management and customer success teams and has mentored interns and freshers. She is a great team player and has worked with internal and external teams to develop the design system for Mobicip.

Jamie McInnes
Priya Devarajan
Communications Program Manager
Georgia Tech

Shimi is a very dedicated and sincere designer. As the sole design lead in a team full of left brained engineers, she would take in the scattered feedback calmly and patiently. She is a stickler for design guidelines and would do everything in her power to maintain brand and design consistency over time. She maintained her productivity while balancing a growing family, personal hardships, and medical crises, always keeping a proactive professionalism, positive mindset and balanced approach.

Jamie McInnes
Suren Ramasubbu
CEO, Mobicip
Georgia Tech

Shimi is a good visualizer of the facts presented and nicely articulates in the outcomes of the UX/UI she designs. As a person she is a good team worker. Given her time she executes task to perfection..

Jamie McInnes
Girish Sadashivamurthy
Senior Manager
Cognizant

Shimi is extremely good in her works. She is very keen on UI deliveries on time. And she is very passionate on web design. I'm really glad that I've selected her for our team . Moreover She is absolutely fantastic human being.

Jamie McInnes
karthikeyan krishnan
Entrepreneur, Author, Rhetor, and Personal Finance Consultant

Shimi is one of the Versatile UI designer i have met so far ,her presence in a team gives strength and confidence to deliver the UI Rich Web/Mobile Application. Clients are always impressed with her work. She is the one who always has a ready made solution for all the UI related Issue ,she guides every one in her team to follow the Best practices. Thanks for guiding me too Shimi . I still remember few practice which you shared .

Jamie McInnes
Anil Raju
Senior Software Engineer
Stanford Health Care

About

I’m Shimi Varghese — a product designer, with a deep understanding of how design can drive both business value and user satisfaction.

Born in Kerala and now settled in Bangalore, I started my journey with a degree in Chemistry before discovering my passion for design. After exploring multimedia, I began my career in UI design and front-end engineering and have since focused on all phases of user experience. I completed the Design Thinking for User Experience course at IIT Delhi, deepening my skills and strengthening my ability to innovate and create meaningful designs.

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My experience encompasses diverse projects for both mobile, web, and desktop platforms, involving all phases of the design process from research to validation.

I was most recently working at Parental Control App, Mobicip. Where I served as the founding designer, leading and owning the branding and end-to-end product design to ensure a seamless user experience across all platforms. Our work has helped protect over 3 million families while providing peace of mind to parents worldwide.

Before that I worked for PurpleTalk — the fastest service and product company. Designed and led a diverse range of UX projects across multiple platforms. These projects spanned various industries such as Banking, E-commerce, Health, Gaming, Golf and Entertainment.

Before that I worked for ExcelSoft — Designed for a B2B product for the entire school management system, addressing the needs of parents, teachers, students, administrators, and super admins.

Over the years I’ve worked across Education Management, Parental Control, Analytical Tool, E-Commerce, Wellness Platform, Banking, Health, Entertainment and Games.

Skills & Competencies

Design

Information architecture, Low-high wireframing, Navigation/interaction patterns, Web & Responsive designs, Visual design, Illustrations, Design Systems, Dev handof, Design QA

Prototyping

Rapid prototyping, Interaction design, Animation, Video Creation, Micro interations

Research

Qualitative & quantitative research, Competitive benchmarking, Personas, Use cases, Journey maps, A/B Testing, Usability tests, Heuristic evaluations

Collaboration

Cross functional team collaboration, Presentations, continuous Learning and Adaptability

Tools I use and love

Figma and Figjam

Designing, Prototyping, Collaboration and Whiteboarding

Adobe Illustrator

Illustrations, Icons and Graphic Design

Adobe Photoshop

Image Editing and Retouching

Adobe After Effects

Transitions and Micro-interactions

Adobe Premiere Pro

Basic Video Editing & creating high-quality video content

Sketch

Designing, Prototyping and Collaboration

Adobe XD

Interactive Prototypes and Feedback

Mural

Whiteboarding, Brainstorming, Ideation and Workshops

Html

Structuring the web page

CSS

Language used to style and layout web pages

Interests

landscape
Beach time
Beautiful tonal blue basketball court in Miami
Top down view of a flat white coffee
Bryn's colourful skateboard
Surfing into the sunset in Carcavelos, Portugal
Tapas plates of ceviche, oysters and salmon
Bryn mid-air, snowboarding in Whistler
Paddleboarding off the beach of Barcelona
An ambient James Blake festival performance
Two clownfish swimming around Malaysian coral
An autumnal view towards London's city skyline