Nir Shamir is a senior product designer who works at the intersection of people, complexity, and shipping things that actually work. He believes the best pixels are the ones you never notice.

Munch

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Social AI

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2024 - Present

Munch started as a tool for creators repurposing video. When the product expanded to serve SMBs, everything changed. Different goals, different workflows, and users who had no patience for a learning curve. I designed the social media manager from scratch: content strategy, scheduling, analytics, multi-brand management, and team collaboration. The constraint was that every new capability had to feel like it belonged to the same product, not a feature that got bolted on. The hardest decision was the AI layer. Early versions surfaced suggestions aggressively and users ignored them or turned them off entirely. The fix wasn't smarter AI, it was giving users visible control. Every AI action had a clear override, every suggestion showed its reasoning. Trust went up when the product stopped trying to be clever and started being transparent. I learned that complexity isn't the enemy. Invisible complexity is. Users can handle a powerful tool. They can't handle one they don't understand.

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Munch

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Social AI

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2024 - Present

Munch started as a tool for creators repurposing video. When the product expanded to serve SMBs, everything changed. Different goals, different workflows, and users who had no patience for a learning curve. I designed the social media manager from scratch: content strategy, scheduling, analytics, multi-brand management, and team collaboration. The constraint was that every new capability had to feel like it belonged to the same product, not a feature that got bolted on. The hardest decision was the AI layer. Early versions surfaced suggestions aggressively and users ignored them or turned them off entirely. The fix wasn't smarter AI, it was giving users visible control. Every AI action had a clear override, every suggestion showed its reasoning. Trust went up when the product stopped trying to be clever and started being transparent. I learned that complexity isn't the enemy. Invisible complexity is. Users can handle a powerful tool. They can't handle one they don't understand.

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Phoenix

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Finance

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2022

Israeli pension and investment data has always lived inside bank portals built for accountants, not people. Phoenix needed to change that. I designed a mobile experience that leads with a single portfolio number and breaks down holdings as proportional bubbles, making performance immediately readable without tables or charts. The challenge was building confidence without oversimplifying, letting users feel in control of something that had always felt out of reach. I learned that in finance, trust is a design problem. Every label, every number, every empty state either earns it or loses it.

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Phoenix

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Finance

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2022

Israeli pension and investment data has always lived inside bank portals built for accountants, not people. Phoenix needed to change that. I designed a mobile experience that leads with a single portfolio number and breaks down holdings as proportional bubbles, making performance immediately readable without tables or charts. The challenge was building confidence without oversimplifying, letting users feel in control of something that had always felt out of reach. I learned that in finance, trust is a design problem. Every label, every number, every empty state either earns it or loses it.

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Ministry of Justice

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Dispute

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2021

Filing a legal dispute in Israel meant visiting a court office, filling out paper forms, and hoping you did it right. The Ministry of Justice wanted to bring that process online. I designed a step-by-step wizard with plain-language instructions, clear progress tracking, and a confirmation state that gives users confidence before they submit. The focus was on preventing errors before they happen, not recovering from them after. I learned that government design is humility work. The user is stressed, confused, and has no margin for error. Your job is to get out of the way.

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Ministry of Justice

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Dispute

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2021

Filing a legal dispute in Israel meant visiting a court office, filling out paper forms, and hoping you did it right. The Ministry of Justice wanted to bring that process online. I designed a step-by-step wizard with plain-language instructions, clear progress tracking, and a confirmation state that gives users confidence before they submit. The focus was on preventing errors before they happen, not recovering from them after. I learned that government design is humility work. The user is stressed, confused, and has no margin for error. Your job is to get out of the way.

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Easy City

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Communication

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2021

Cities communicate badly. Residents miss urgent updates, can't tell what's relevant to their neighbourhood, and have no single place to look. I designed a feed-based mobile app with location-aware filtering, category tags, and a personalised layer that surfaces hyper-local content. The UI borrows from news app conventions to reduce the learning curve so the product feels familiar from the first scroll. I learned that civic products live or die on trust. If people don't believe the information is accurate and timely, they stop opening it.

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Easy City

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Communication

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2021

Cities communicate badly. Residents miss urgent updates, can't tell what's relevant to their neighbourhood, and have no single place to look. I designed a feed-based mobile app with location-aware filtering, category tags, and a personalised layer that surfaces hyper-local content. The UI borrows from news app conventions to reduce the learning curve so the product feels familiar from the first scroll. I learned that civic products live or die on trust. If people don't believe the information is accurate and timely, they stop opening it.

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