Manaar Jafri

Senior Product Designer at Ventura

The Detective Product Designer you’ve beenlooking for to solve your next big case

Building trading and investing products, starting with the question nobody else asked.

Base: Mumbai, India
Field: Fintech
Focus: Trading & investing
Experience: 3 years

Who is Manaar?

Product
Designer?

Researcher?

Public
Speaker?

Research paper, I4AM

Research paper, ICoRD 2025

Published
Research

Public
Speaking

Speaker badge, DevFest

Speaker badge, Grace Hopper Celebration

Bachelor of Design

Education

(Humanising Technology)

Newspaper clipping: Erasmus+ bootcamp

Varna,
Bulgaria

Global
Exposure

Distinguished Paper AwardICoRD 2025, IIT Hyderabad
Gold, UI Design of the YearIFP 50-Hour Design Challenge (Raahi)
Exceptional Public Speaking Award
Outstanding Contribution to Cultural Events

Awards &
Recognition

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2020
A design student who asked too many questions.
Won a 50-hour design challenge
Published research papers
A fully funded Erasmus+ bootcamp in Bulgaria
Entered the stock market, a world I knew nothing about
Six months in, a full-time Product Designer
Shipped trading and investing products end to end
Gave talks at conferences
Won an award for my research
Today
A Senior Product Designer who still asks too many questions.

Case study: MTF

Case study: Strategy Builder

Case study: Tax Harvesting

Projects folder

Work that left a mark

Ventura
Re-imagining MTF
From a hidden feature to a complete product experience for traders.
Read the case study
Ventura
Strategy Builder
Simplifying strategy creation for every trader.
Coming soon
Ventura
Tax Harvesting
Smarter taxes. Stronger portfolios.
Coming soon

Exhibit B · Education

B.Des. in Humanising Technology

Four years at NMIMS School of Design, learning to design through people, behaviour and technology.

Years: 2020–24
School: NMIMS School of Design
City: Mumbai

Not “what should we make?” but “why does this problem exist?”

The degree

2020–24

2020–21

The foundation

Joined the Humanising Technology programme at NMIMS School of Design. what the first year covered, and when design clicked

2021–22

Learning to ask why

The core of the degree: human-centred design, qualitative research and systems thinking. Leading with research, and framing the problem before solving it.

one studio project that shaped this

Beyond the classroom

2022–23

year

Raahi: fifty hours to solve it

Designed Raahi in a 50-hour design challenge, and won gold. the problem Raahi tackled, in one line

Gold · 50-Hour Design Challenge

July 2023

Erasmus+, in Varna

Selected for a fully funded Erasmus+ bootcamp at Varna University of Management, Bulgaria.

The bootcamp cohort outside Varna University of Management — The cohort in Varna

Research & industry

2023–24

2023–24

The research paper

A human-centred study on how working mothers in India stay connected with their children during work hours. It became a paper at ICoRD 2025 and won the Distinguished Paper Award.

confirm: graduation project? and is ParentPal the design that came out of it?

Nov 2023

Into industry

Joined Ventura as a Product Design Intern in my final year, designing trading and investing products alongside the degree.

Recognition

2024

2024

Graduation

Graduated with the B.Des. and two awards from the school.

Exceptional Public Speaking AwardOutstanding Contributions to Cultural Events

Manaar holding her B.Des. degree and two NMIMS awards — Graduation day — the degree and both awards