About me

Hi, I'm Mojgan.

I'm a UX researcher with four years of experience. I like the moments where people and products quietly misunderstand each other, and the work of finding out why.

Mojgan Haratian, smiling, in front of a bookshelf

How I got here

I started as an Android developer, and kept noticing that the products that struggled rarely had a code problem. They struggled when nobody understood the people using them, or how those people's needs connected to the business.

That question shaped everything after: my first usability test as a developer, a master's thesis on how loyal customers shift over time, product design work, and volunteer research for Women of MENA in Technology. Research is where I get to work on it every day, and having built products myself, I know what a finding needs to look like for a team to use it.

In 2022 I joined a buy now, pay later company as its first UX researcher. More researchers have joined since, and I've grown with the team, from usability tests to field studies, in-depth interviews and large surveys. Most of my work there has been about trust in everyday moments with money: paying at a counter, borrowing, using a wallet balance. Those are the problems I enjoy most, where people have to trust a product before they'll use it.

Toolbox

Methods I've used in my work

Qualitative
  • Usability testing
  • User interviews
  • Field studies
  • Card sorting
  • Thematic analysis
  • Persona creation
Quantitative
  • Survey design
  • Concept testing
  • Statistical analysis
Behavioral
  • Event analytics
  • Funnel analysis
  • Heatmaps and session recordings
  • Behavioral segmentation
  • Competitive benchmarking

Tools Google Analytics · Microsoft Clarity · Looker Studio · Power BI · Python (basic analysis) · Figma

Other skills
Data visualizationStorytellingInformation architectureWireframing and prototypingVisual designWorking in agile teams
Domains
  • Buy now, pay later and credit
  • In-store and online payments
  • Merchant tools and B2B
  • Marketplaces and search
Languages

Persian · English · Korean

Mojgan looking at a bright triptych of young women in a forest, in a white gallery room

Outside work

Where you'll find me on a free afternoon

In an art gallery, usually.

I go for the work, but I stay for the room: who stops, who walks past, who comes back for a second look.

A painting of a golden house above flooded green fields, with small figures by the water

Every piece is a chance to see through someone else's eyes.

The artist saw something one way. The person standing next to me sees it another way. I try to stand in both places before I decide what I see.

A sculpture of a human head made of tangled wire, on a wooden plinth

That's the part that feels most like my work.

Research is mostly that: setting my own view aside long enough to see a product the way someone else does.

A large blue abstract painting seen from the side, next to an open gallery doorway

To me, a gallery is a quiet kind of usability lab.

People show you what they notice long before they tell you. That's the curiosity I bring to research: watch what people actually do, then ask why.

Contact

Let's talk.

The quickest way to reach me is LinkedIn.

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