Year
2025
Client
Skie Labs
Category
MICRO Saas Tool
Product Duration
3 - 4 Weeks
The problem
Teams often need to collect big files (logs, videos, builds) from customers. But existing solutions like email, WeTransfer, or custom dashboards either:
Don't scale well
Involve insecure handoffs
Or require complex cloud configurations
We wanted to remove the friction, especially for product and engineering teams.
User Flow
Connect Storage: User clicks “Connect Your Storage” and follows a guided flow to assume a cross-account IAM role; no secret keys to rotate.
Create Beam: Once storage is connected, the user lands on “Create Beam,” where they choose that storage and define a portal (Beam) name.
Share & Upload: After creating a Beam, the user gets a shareable link which is shared with their client. The client sees a drag and drop upload with a clear border, iconography, and label
Vual Langu
WHAT i SHIPPED
Full landing page design
Signup/login UI with magic link auth
Upload portal dashboard UI
Brand identity (logo, color palette, tone)
3-step onboarding flow
Email templates (signup, verification, upload complete)
Working on BeamUp as my very first personal project; collaborating hand-in-hand with a developer friend, taught me invaluable lessons that I carry into every design endeavor:
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Crafting clear, concise design specs and maintaining an open feedback loop with engineering helped me appreciate the push-and-pull between ideal UI patterns and real-world implementation constraints.
MVP & Rapid Iteration Mindset: Embracing a concierge-style MVP reinforced the power of focusing on core user value (secure, five-minute file sharing) over feature bloat, validating assumptions quickly with real users, and iterating based on concrete feedback.
Technical Empathy: Diving into IAM role setups and serverless upload flows deepened my understanding of back-end security patterns, enabling me to design user flows that respect engineering realities without sacrificing simplicity.
User-Centered Testing: Early prototype tests highlighted subtle usability issues, error messaging clarity, drag-drop affordances which underscored the importance of real-user validation before any line of code is written.
End-to-End Ownership: Leading everything from initial concept sketches through wireframes, high-fidelity prototyping, and developer handoff gave me confidence in driving a product vision across the full UI/UX lifecycle.
BeamUp wasn’t just a tool to solve a late-night crisis, it was a crash course in teamwork, lean product development, and designing with both user needs and technical constraints in mind. This experience has laid a solid foundation for all my future UI/UX projects. Shoutout to Noel Mathew , the full stack developer friend who brought this to life!
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