Aarav Sharma

Mentor's word

“Designed the entire checkout from competitive teardown to shipped prototype. Made evidence-grounded conversion-rate decisions and held a high accessibility bar throughout. Would hire.”

Capstone

E-Commerce Checkout Flow — clickable Figma prototype + WCAG 2.2 AA audit

niniconai.com/p/aarav-sharma/capstone

Weekly record

1. Week 1

   Annotated teardown of five mobile checkout flows across US and India sites.

   Strong eye for sticky-total placement and guest-checkout friction.

2. Week 2

   Journey map of happy path + four payment edge cases with system response and emotion on every touchpoint.

   Session-timeout branch was a thoughtful addition — most interns skip it.

3. Week 3

   Twelve mobile-first wireframes including three cart-state variants.

   Clean grayscale discipline. Held off styling until week 5 as instructed.

4. Week 4

   tokens.json authored first with 14 entries; text-field and button main components built off the values.

   Got the tokens-first discipline right on the first try. Error state pairs icon + colour for accessibility.

5. Week 5

   14 polished hi-fi screens; WCAG AA contrast audit on every text/background pair; intended Tab-order documented.

   Every contrast ratio recorded. Darkened the brand cyan where needed without flinching.

6. Week 6

   Wired prototype + two think-aloud usability sessions with non-designers. Keyboard Tab walk completed.

   Findings were specific and screen-attached. Three fixes lined up for week 7 cleanly.

7. Week 7

   Applied usability findings; written A/B test plan for guest-checkout visibility with control / variant / metrics / risks.

   Risks section showed real product thinking — rare from someone new to A/B testing.

8. Week 8

   Shipped the case-study site to GitHub Pages. Full audit of repo tree confirmed.

   Process section preserved every weekly README append. Reads like a finished portfolio piece.