Roomster

Helping you find rooms and roommates

Role: UI/UX Designer

Duration: Sept 2019 - Present

THE STORY

About Roomster

Roomster, founded in 2003 and based in New York City, connects people and makes the experience of sharing a home easy and safe.

One thing that makes roomster unique is its two-sided marketplace, where users can find Rooms, Entire Place, Roommates and also add a listing for their room/apartment/home as Tenants.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Wearing a lot of hats and sometimes finding scrappy ways to get things done

As a UI/UX designer I am helping and collaborating in the below broad areas, where 70% of my time goes in the UI/UX initiatives and rest of the time in the other areas of product strategy, user-testing, marketing initiative with collaboration not only with engineers and designers, but also our operational team.

LEARNINGS

Everyday is a learning!!

Getting feedback from everyday design meetings improved my design
Presenting my work everyday helped to gain communication skills and also skills to convince people about the various design decisions
Learnt to manage time in the fast-paced environment
Learnt to handle bigger responsibilities in short span of time
Evolved as designer who can think both from the perspective of design and business needs

CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Analyzing my journey so far..:)

Working as a UI/UX designer, especially in a startup comes with it own advantages and disadvantages. You get to handle a lot of responsibilities and your work is not focused in a single area. You need to adjust in the fast-paced environment and wear many hats per need basis. I also felt that you need to figure out things on your own as there is little guidance provided. Time management is also crucial as we always face resource crunch.

Reach out to me (shradhashree28@gmail.com) incase you want to know more about my work at Roomster. Happy to have a conversation..:)