Senior User Experience Designer
August 2016– July 2018 (2 years) Bangalore, India
As a senior designer, my roles mainly were-
- Distributing insights and supporting the offshore HMI team with the knowledge I’ve built working onsite with the clients.
- Supporting and guiding teams to quickly come up with insightful workflows and simple solutions for complex interaction design problem.
- Designing complete HMI experiences (interaction design and theme/mood boards for graphics) for showcasing the company’s design potential at various consumer electronic shows.
- Actively working on concepts for automotive HUD and cluster panels.
OUR SERVICES
User Experience/ HMI Design Consultant
January 2015 – July 2018 (3 year 6 months) Gaydon, UK
Part of HMI design team working on JLR's latest high-end infotainment systems- InControl Touch Pro.
This is now in production across all car lines which also includes electric vehicles (BEV and PHEV).
During this period my roles and responsibilities were as follows:
- Designing HMI wireframes, user flows, and storyboards.
- Working with a wide group of stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams from various departments of the business to come up with the best possible design solutions for the right customer experience.
- Working closely with system architects and software developers to ensure designs are executed the right way.
- Evaluate design on development feasibility and usability level.
- Designing graphical concepts and reviewing master graphics and graphical specifications.
- Risk assessing fixes or changes for inclusion in software releases.
- Designing concepts for future infotainment.
User Experience Designer
June 2014– July 2016 (2 years 2 months) Bangalore, India
- Designed mobile apps iOs and Android platform.
- Worked on automotive experiences, complete HMI concepts for various concept
cars including electric vehicles.
- Exploring other mediums such as VR, AR, and mixed reality.
- Worked on graphics specifications for mobile apps and infotainment.
UX/ Interaction Design Intern
December 2013– April 2014 (5 months) Bangalore, India
Tata Elxsi introduced me to functional and user-centered aspects of design. As an intern/ trainee it was an extremely learning period. I was introduced to methodologies of user experience research which was very helpful to capture user needs. I was also introduced to modes of competitor study like benchmarking, expert reviewing, and competitive analysis.
Further, I learned interaction design- understanding different environments and user requirements, building environment hierarchy, information architecture, interaction models, navigation workflows and wire-framing concepts. Since I have an understanding and a background in Graphics Design, I also explored visual design concepts.
Finally, I did my graduation project over here titled "To design an experience for Tata Elxsi to showcase its design capabilities to its clients." I designed an intuitive portfolio platform over iOs that lets the company to showcase its design capabilities as portfolios and also enable the user to manage the projects and its contents according to the client requirements. The on-device storage and cloud servers worked smartly together to manage projects over the platform.
All together this project was the product of all the leanings I gained in Tata Elxsi. It was a small project but was very helpful to test my learning. Also, it opened doors for exploring user experience design and getting prepared for future challenges.
June 2013 – August 2013 (3 months) Bangalore, India
My first internship which introduced me to deeper aspects of building identity, creating a brand language and conceptualizing the language to a visual identity for the brand. Also helped me to enhance my graphics design skills and building an understanding (relation and correlation) of the level of information and visually treating them into an info-graphics. Overall, a very good learning experience in a very short period of time.