About Us

Our Mission

We exist to help both freelancers and clients excel in creative collaboration without slogging through endless, vague revisions. For freelancers, that means freeing up their time to focus on design rather than decoding cryptic feedback. For clients, it’s streamlining the process of articulating visions and eliminating confusion about what “make it pop” really means.

Primary Stakeholders

Creative Freelancers

Services

Plug-in & Platform

Industry

SaaS

Date Founded

October 2024

Our Values…

The Spark Behind Lumen

We’re a group of design engineers who’ve felt the sting of “Make it pop” one too many times. Each of us comes from a different corner of design—product, software, research—yet we’ve all spent long nights redoing layouts and chasing cryptic client notes across Slack, email, and Figma comments.


After enough frustration, we looked at each other and said: “There has to be a better way.” We imagined a world where clients could actually say what they mean, where designers wouldn’t guess how to ‘make it pop’, and where collaboration felt exciting instead of exhausting. We also interviewed countless peers who shared the exact same pain points.


Why the Name “Lumen”?

We chose Lumen after the unit of light, because it symbolizes shining clarity on vague feedback. Where projects once involved guesswork and confusion, Lumen aims to illuminate the path—turning incoherent requests into confidence for freelancers and clients alike.

Meet the Minds Behind Lumen

Meet the brilliant minds behind Lumen! Driven to transform client feedback and redefine collaboration.

Ankita Sharma

CEO

Hauwa Aarifah

CTO

Aishwarya Balasundar

CIO

Leon Zhang

CMO

Saian Patel

CFO

Meet the Experts Guiding our Journey…

Stephen Green

Principal Teaching Fellow Imperial College London & Head of IDE - Dyson School of Design Engineering

Kevin McDonagh

Director or Product at AppVelocity, building on-demand Design & Product feedback

Akhil Ashok

UX Lead Engineer at QBurst, ADPList Mentor

Alfie Thompson

Freelance Art Director and CG Artist

Keller Lambert

Talent Strategy Leader at Nike, ex-Program Manager at UpWork