Firas Darwiche

Approach to Design My passion for User Experience Design lies in a mission for driving effective, practical, and cost-effective solutions to problems people and businesses face in transforming to a better living. I’m dedicated at delivering innovative, empathic, Intuitive final products empowering people to lead a smarter, more efficient life that constantly unfolds new possibilities. The Role Models I Adhere to • A dreamer in eliciting broad ideas that create real impact and drive value • A realist who problem solves for what practically works with the reliable available resources and the dedicated stakeholders on board • A catalyst who rewires stakeholders' views, ideas, and motivations for more sustainable end products • A storytelling-savvy who elicits metaphors that inspire elegant simple solutions and lead to final designs that succeed with real users • A detail-oriented designer that learned by experience how to iteratively tweak and shape a more intuitive final product What I Technically Do • Research human needs and states and what drives user behavior • Transform the business model to evolve the product into a more sustainable end product • Increase adoptability of new products by leveraging "Innovation with Familiarity" patterns • Craft the final User Experience Design to be intuitive, enjoyable, and pain-free • Iteratively deliver Low and High Fidelity Prototypes for the designed digital Apps The Core Process I Follow in Solution Design • Users Story Narration: Eliciting the main pain points and needs of real users • Empathy Maps: How users are now struggling to solve the problem • User Journey Maps: Eliciting power tools that resolve user struggles for each stage of the journey • Solution Design: Wearing the hat of a mentor while crafting the next best journey for end users • Low and High Fidelity Prototyping: Making it visual and interactive for different levels of testing • Testing and Reiterating: What struggles still exist or newly emerged to go for the next round Skills and Expertise • User Experience Design • Design Thinking, Ideation, and Problem Solving • Customer Journey Mapping • Business Analysis and Usability Analysis • User Interface Design • Interaction Design • Human Design Optimization through Neuro Linguistic Programming NLP • Content Strategy and Information Design • Future Trends Research • Software Architecture and Design • Object-Oriented / Patterns-Oriented Analysis and Design • Database Design