Hello, I am Mervin.

Welcome to my portfolio.

Born in India>Moved to Seattle for graduate school>Got hooked on to User experience>The rest is history

I am a Seattle based UX designer who has worked across with experience ranging from designing for large enterprises to design consulting to designing for non profits. I am passionate about driving end to end design experiences and love working in cross functional teams where I can learn from different disciplines.

Connect with me via my email mervin.johnsingh@gmail.com or just shoot me a connection request on Linkedin.

Still interested in learning more? Keep reading.

UX Design, whats that?

When I moved to Seattle to attend the Information school at University of Washington, I had no interest into looking into UX design as a career.I didn’t even know what UX design was.

That however changed when I attended my first UX class by Professor Jacob Wobbrock and Shaun Kane. I was hooked. I started to look into more and more UX classes at Udub and pivoted my entire career focus around that.

During my UX journey, I have held a series of roles in different companies. I started my UX journey as an UX intern at Docusign where I helped design their document signing experience and helped MAQ software deliver internal design projects for Microsoft. Post that I joined Aditi Technologies (later acquired by Harman International) as a designer in their newly formed design team Litehouse where I was the first formally trained designer they had hired and helped build the design practice from 3 people to 100+ (which was the approximate number when I left).

As I helped Litehouse grow their team and business,I realized I needed to up level my design skills and get more design exposure. As another school stint was out of the question, I started to spend a lot of time at UX stackexchange answering questions and just looking at how designers approached the design challenges in their companies. As I spent more and more time there, I quickly ranked up contribution points and I am still one of top five contributors in UX stackexchange (this is despite the fact that I have not been active on it for nearly half a decade now)

Post Aditi Technologies (then known as Harman International), I joined Microsoft where I helped drive the design experience for Microsoft’s experimentation platform. After that I moved to the Azure Machine learning team where I have been driving the design focus for multiple feature areas of the product (Currently 9 and counting)

Random stuff about me.

This is a totally random collection of things about me which are not work based.

Hackathons

In 2019, I helped design MirrorHR which won the global hackathon across Microsoft.

Hiking is fun

I love living in the Pacific northwest and love going on hikes as long as I can take plenty of pictures.

I love cooking

I am passionate about cooking especially Thai, Indian and Ethiopian food

Mentoring

I discovered a passion for mentoring in 2019 and ramped it up in 2020 during the pandemic. My greatest joy is seeing former mentors go on to land successful jobs.

Photography

I am passionate about photography and was once asked to shoot a wedding since the original photographer did not show up.

Shelties and fluff

I have a really fluffy sheltie named Eli who is my daily stress buster and I am always happy to talk about him.