Manager, Interaction Designer at Philips Healthcare Bangalore (India)
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- 8yrs + of experience in Interaction Design for Web, Mobile & desktop. 3yrs + of Experience in Managing, mentoring and supporting a design team.
- Currently Design Manager in Philips Design and previously worked at Mobilitas Technologies (1.5 years) Nokia Bangalore Nokia NRC Helsinki (3 years) & July Systems, Bangalore (3.5 yrs).
- Worked as design Lead in Nokia Meego platform, been part of several successful global projects & Nokia flagship device N9.
- 1 Individual patent with Nokia, few more patents in process.
- Annual Global Achievement Award in Nokia for Concepts demo and Ideas.
- Masters in Information & Digital Design (2004-06) - National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad.
- Award of Excellence in Taiwan International Experience Design competition 2005 (Link)
- Prizewinner with team of three in NID for “Transcend” Package Design Competition by GSK.
Work and Experience
Philips Design | Healthcare (9 Months)
Manager / Interaction Designer / Managing and mentoring a team in Bangalore and leading design projects in Philips Healthcare MR systems. I am working on global projects to improve user experience of MR systems, conducting design workshops, collaborating with different stakeholders on various locations and supporting usability tests.
Mobilitas Technologies, Bangalore (1.5 Years)
Creative Head / Interaction Designer / Responsible for Entire Design setup, including Company Branding, Product conceptualization, Innovation, Design & Strategy, Patents, Agile process in Design and Development, Usability Studies and setting up design team.
End to End Design of HeMoClo Cloud based EHR Mobility platform for doctors with minimal typing Interactions. Usability Study shows a high user satisfaction and 50% more time efficiency compared to existing solutions.
I was also involved in design support of many client/service projects.
Nokia, Bangalore & Helsinki (3 years)
Design Lead, NRC Helsinki / Worked As Design Lead with Nokia Research Center, Helsinki in a Design Studio setup. Developed ideas and concepts related to grouping and organization of user generated media content by utilizing the power of cloud computing and system intelligence and conducted user research around them.
Nokia Meego Devices / Responsible for Designing Interactions & Defining UI specifications for Meego platform & applications. Worked on many global projects including, defining Meego platform UI guidelines for third party applications. Worked closely with Facebook development team.
Concepts, Research & Ideation / Have been involved in Research, Concept demos and Pilot testing of new ideas & concepts.
- 1 Individual Patent.
- Inventing Future: Concepts, Ideas and demo (Awarded with Annual Achievement Award on global level). Carpool with Social Networking and Call notes were the appreciated concepts.
July Systems, Bangalore (3.5 years) – User Experience Designer
Smart Mobile Media services (SMMS) / I was responsible for complete User Experience design of Award Winning SMMS Mobile service management tool. Was responsible for requirement gathering, conceptualization, User task flow, Workflow, Systems Design and integration, UI Design and Usability. I also defined the guidelines for SMMS.
SMMS is Mobile Service Management tool on Web for July Systems clients to create & manage Mobile services efficiently. Modules of SMMS are Mobile site Management, SMS Alerts & campaign, Active User management, Report & Analytics, CRM, Ad management, Content Management and more.
Mobile Applications design / I was involved in conceptualization and execution of mobile internet based next generation mobile applications. Some of successful project were Media World and Nudge (Similar concept as “What’s app” )
Mobile services / I was involved in Pre-sales presentation, conceptualization, design and deployment also in entire service development cycle of July’s client Services like network18, Mtv, Universal Studio, Skillsoft, Southpark, Vh1, Espn, CBS and many more. Research & Design of a Media & entertainment mobile service for Indian rural audience in their regional languages like Hindi. (Patent Filed)
National Institute of Design (NID) (2004-2006) – Student
Watch in TRANS / Excellence award in Taiwan International Experience Design Competition 2005 for creating a new time experience. (Link)
Package Design / Prize winner of “Transcend” Package Design Competition organized by GlaxoSmithKline.
Apart from above two award-winning projects I have done other classroom projects Cityinfo, System Design Mobility and Cross Cultural Study.
Project during B. Tech (Electronics & Communication) (2000-2004) – student
Cliffhanger / Designed & built robot for Robotics competition organized by IIT, Bombay. Robot could climb up to a terrace by rope and burst all the balloons there.
Qualification and Education
Post Graduate in Information & Digital Design. / NID Ahmedabad (India), Yr 2004 - 2006
B. Tech (Electronics & Comm.) / KNIT Sultanpur (U.P.), Yr 2000-2004
Intermediate / Govt. Inter College, Banda (U.P.). Yr 1996-1998
High School / Govt. Inter College, Banda (U.P.). Yr 1994-1996
Design Skills
- Requirement gathering, User Research, Task Analysis, Ethnographic Research, Persona Creation, Scenario Generation, Wireframes, Visual Design, Usability Study.
- Design Deliverables (User Task Flow, Information Architecture, Wire Frames, Visual Design, interactive Prototypes)
- Proficient in Adobe creative suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver), CSS / HTML / XML
- Important Courses Undertaken in NID: Systems Design, Design process, Cross cultural Studies, Experience design, Information Graphics, Data visualization, Creativity workshop, Usability workshop, Stainless steel workshop, Basics of color & form, 3D modeling workshop and more.