PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A passionate UI/UX Designer with proven know - how to combine creative and usability viewpoints resulting in world-class web, mobile applications and wearable's.
• A proven history of creating cutting edge interface designs and information architectures for websites and mobile applications through a user-centered design process by constructing screen flows, prototypes and wireframes.
• Proficient in designing rich web applications, and mobile apps.
• Expertise in creating design strategy, conducting user research & interviews, crafting persona & user profiles, and creating information architecture, interaction design, wireframes & visual design.
• Strong visual design skills. Proficient in data visualization, banner design.
• Extensive experience in usability testing and providing design recommendations and usability best practices.
• Worked on augmented reality platform, enterprise platform applications, insurance, healthcare, media and entertainment, travel & tourism, hotel management system, finance and e-commerce applications on multiple platforms like desktop, tablet and mobile.
• Well versed in Prototyping and Wireframing using Axure RP, Balsamiq, Visio, Mockingbird, Adobe experience Designer(Xd).
• Experience working with Adobe creative cloud (CC) tools like Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop.
• Experience working with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), CRXDE lite, Developed components for web applications and mobile applications.
• Experience developing User Profiles, User Persona’s and Use-Case Scenarios, Storyboarding, Use Cases, User flows, Sitemaps, Dairy studies.
• Experience in Conducting UX research on Mobile, Web platform and applications, Well Versed in User experience research Techniques, Research methods in Human Factors Engineering.
• Experience in data collection methods like Ethnographic, observational etc.
• Experience using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstra, Bootstrap studio, CSS3, HTML 5, JQuery, Angular JS, JSON, HTML DOM, Browser BOM, AJAX, SASS, LESS.
• Hands on experience in statistical analysis using MATLAB, SPSS, Statistica, R programming and JMP
• In depth knowledge UX, UI design & development.
• Experience working in Agile Development (SCRUM), STAR, Waterfall, Spiral Environments.
• Experience in Usability Testing Methodologies like Think-aloud protocol, Cognitive walkthrough, Moderated & unmoderated testing.
• Experience with Error analysis techniques like Root-cause Analysis, SHERPA Analysis, Task Analysis, GOMS, SWOT Analysis etc.
• Experience working in Human Computer interaction, Usability engineering fields.
• Experience in Systems design and developing System Models using concepts of Cognitive systems engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

UX Design: Wireframing, Prototyping, Information architecture, User-Centered Designing, Cognitive modeling, Hierarchical task analysis, GOMS, concept mapping, Card sort techniques, process charting techniques, Usability testing, Story boarding, persona building, use case building, use case scenario building, Conceptual model, conceptual evaluation, Web design, Human factors engineering, Information architecture (IA), Interaction design (IxD), Usability testing

UX Research: Attitudinal, Behavioral, Quantitative, Qualitative, Research Methods in Human Factors Engineering, User Experience research methodologies, Statistical Analysis, Error Analysis Techniques

Usability Testing Methodologies: Think-aloud Protocol, Cognitive Walkthrough, A/B Testing, Moderated and Unmoderated Usability Testing, Usability Benchmark testing, Focus groups, Ethnographic field studies, Interviews, Surveys, Eye tracking, Card- Sorting Techniques

UI Technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, Bootstrap studio, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, JSON, HTML DOM, Browser BOM, AJAX, SASS, LESS

Statistical Analysis: MATLAB, SPSS, Statistica, R programming and JMP tool

Languages: R, R-studio, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, Bootstrap studio, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, JSON, HTML DOM, Browser BOM, AJAX, SASS, LESS

Prototyping and WireframingTools: Axure RP, Balsamiq, VISIO, InDesign, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Mockingbird, Proto.io, Just in Mind, Adobe CC

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, STAR, Spiral

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kansas City

Sr. UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Leading user-centered design process involving business research, user research, information architecture, interaction design and prototyping. Acting as the user advocate during the development process.
• Developing user personas and scenarios in order to enhance functionality and usability for key audiences.
• Developing user stories, user journey maps, Interaction Design.
• Responsible for creating sketch, wireframe, prototype and visual mockups, creating clickable prototypes when needed with Axure RP.
• Performing on early-stage designs to usability testing and presenting implementation recommendations from a user-centered perspective.
• Conducting requirement meetings, design reviews with internal stakeholders and end-users to gather and transforming constructive feedback into great design solutions.
• Conducted usability testing.
• Participating and conducting Focus Groups.
• Creating User Profiles, Use cases, Personas, Use case scenarios.
• Creating prototypes and wireframes for websites and mobile applications.
• Designing User experience (UX) prototypes with tools like Axure, Balsamiq.
• Using Task Analysis, SHERPA Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Root cause Analysis to identify flaws in the existing design.
• Working with UI developing technologies such as Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, JSON, HTML DOM, Browser BOM, AJAX, SASS/LESS.
• Creating Responsive web designing using Bootstrap, Bootstrap studio
• Working in AGILE (SCRUM) environment practices and planning of Confidential attending daily agile (SCRUM) meetings and Confidential retrospective meetings to produce quality deliverables within time.

Environment: Prototyping and Wireframing using Axure RP, Balsamiq, Paper Prototypes, low - fidelity and high-fidelity prototyping, UI Designing with Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, JSON, HTML DOM, Browser BOM, AJAX, SASS/LESS, Bootstrap Studio, User-centered Designing, AGILE (SCRUM) Environment, Usability testing - Think aloud protocol, Cognitive walkthrough.

Confidential, Woonsocket

UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Leading user-centered design process involving business research, user research, proof of concept, information architecture, interaction design and prototyping. Acted as the user advocate during the development process.
• Collaborating with remote teams or individuals on projects.
• Leading the team in Research, reviewing articles and researching about applications.
• Interviewing users to understand their needs and finding a common ground between user needs and business goals and developing solutions to satisfy user wants.
• Conducting surveys to understand users’ needs with tools like Qualtrix.
• Using Task Analysis, SHERPA Analysis to identify flaws in the existing design and proposing necessary solutions wherever necessary.
• Studying customer’s behavior through research, observation, field study.
• Collecting and Analyzing the data.
• Participating and conducting Focus Groups.
• Creating User Profiles, use cases, Personas, Use case scenarios.
• Coordinated seamlessly with a multi-disciplinary team to produce wireframes, sketches and interactive prototypes. Worked on high and low Fidelity Prototypes .
• Performed on early-stage designs to usability testing and presented implementation recommendations from a user-centered perspective.
• Conducted requirement meetings, design reviews with internal stakeholders and end-users to gather and transformed constructive feedback into great design solutions.
• Conducted Usability testing.
• UI Designing and Developing with Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS based upon request.
• Worked on different domains like insurance, healthcare and construction Providing onsite and on-call support for production and integration environments.

Environment: Prototyping and Wireframing using Axure RP, Balsamiq, Paper Prototypes, Qualtrix, User-centered Designing, AGILE (SCRUM) Environment, Focus groups, Surveys, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Confidential, Overland Park, Kansas

UI/UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Conducting business analysis, concept analysis, competitor analysis, focus groups.
• Conducting user interviews, surveys using Structured interview methods and Qualtrix.
• Working with card sorting, usability testing and developing design strategy, interaction models, interactive wireframes prototypes, design recommendations and visual design assets.
• Developing high-low fidelity prototypes with Axure RP, HTML, CSS, Sketching.
• Participating as a key technical and design contributor to an interdisciplinary team.
• Owning the complete user experience of more than 5 projects.
• Creating elegant UX and UI for responsive web, mobile, mobile-web and desktop applications utilizing Axure, Adobe CC, and invision.
• Defining information architecture and interaction design for several complex web applications using user flow diagrams, site maps, and interactive wireframes created in Axure RP.
• Ensuring mock-ups met both visual and textual branding standards. Defined and documented website design standards when needed.
• Working with augmented reality platform, enterprise portals, ecommerce applications, hotel management portals.
• Working with the industry domains like entertainment, e-commerce, enterprise, construction, finance, charity, education and social networking.
• UI Designing with Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, JSON, HTML DOM, Browser BOM, AJAX.

Environment: Prototyping and Wireframing using Axure RP, Balsamiq, Paper Prototypes. Dreamweaver, illustrator, iOS, Windows, UI Designing with Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS, JSON, HTML DOM, Browser BOM, AJAX.

Confidential

UX Designer

Responsibilities:

• Introducing UX processes on a variety of product lines, educating and collaborating with cross-functional teams on user research methods and design validation through user testing.
• Organizing design partner programs to engage with customers and users for research and participatory design sessions, helping to improve customer relationships and building a culture of user centered design.
• Defining company guidelines for accessibility compliance.
• Assisting product teams in planning and implementing remediation of accessibility issues through manual and automated evaluation, coding and design best practices, and user research.
• Understanding business goals and user needs and designing prototypes and wireframes with tools such as Axure RP, paper prototyping to develop web and mobile applications that will accommodate user wants.
• Conducting surveys to get feedback on the application prototype and modifying the application/ design of the interface such that the user experience (UX) is enhanced.
• Developing usability solutions for applications to improve user acceptance and improve user satisfaction.
• Working with user-centered designing principles and designing user experience for websites, mobile websites and mobile applications.
• Assisting the Adobe experience manager (AEM) Developers with designing the templates for websites, mobile sites, applications.
• Working with Information Architecture (IA) and Interaction Designing.
• UI Designing with Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS.

Environment: Prototyping and Wireframing using Axure RP, Balsamiq, Paper Prototypes, User-centered Designing, Dreamweaver, UI Designing with Bootstrap, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Angular JS.

Confidential

Assistant User experience researcher

Responsibilities:

• Working with stakeholders and performing workflow analysis, developing methods to improvise the work procedures and also to enhance the human performance.
• Planning and conducting usability assessment and making design recommendations to stakeholders basing on user feedback.
• Assisting in planning and conducting user research including identification of user needs and goals (through interviews, focus groups, and contextual inquiry), as well as task and workflow modeling.
• Working with User studies, interface design and usability evaluation for various devices and systems.
• Suggesting and Conducting Usability testing Techniques.
• Providing recommendations for improving the user experience.
• Designing wireframes for human system interactions, thus developing Interaction Design.
• Assessing usability requirements across the product life cycle, user profiles and personas.
• Design prototypes of websites, mobile applications.
• Conducting user experience (UX) research on mobile applications, gadgets for daily use.
• Using different user testing techniques like Think aloud protocol, surveys, focus groups, surveys.
• Using error analysis techniques like SHERPA, Task analysis.
• Conducting ethnographic research.
• Developing wireframes and prototypes for Mobile, web applications.
• Data collecting and Statistical analysis.

Environment: Prototyping and Wireframing using Axure RP, Balsamiq, Paper Prototypes, Task Analysis, JMP, User research, Process charting.

Confidential

Human Factors Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with remote teams or individuals on projects.
• Leading the team in Research, reviewing articles and researching about applications that are currently available in the market and coming up with aspects that are underused, modify and develop existing applications.
• Interviewing users to understand their needs and finding a common ground between user needs and business goals and developing solutions to satisfy user wants.
• Conducting surveys to understand users’ needs with tools like Qualtrix, survey monkey.
• Using Task Analysis, SHERPA Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Root cause Analysis to identify flaws in the existing design.
• Studying customer’s behavior.
• Collecting and Analyzing the data.
• Participating and conducting Focus Groups.
• Creating User Profiles, Use cases, Personas, Use case scenarios.
• Creating prototypes and wireframes for websites and mobile applications.
• Designing User experience (UX) and User interface (UI) prototype with tools like Axure, Balsamiq.
• Working on a variety of user experience projects that included Content strategy.
• Developing user stories, user journey maps, Interaction Design.
• Conduct & Assist in User studies persona building.
• Product design suggestions.
• Usability solutions, UX designing.
• Working with Information Architecture (IA) to enhance ‘findable’, ‘desirable’, ‘usable’ aspects of User Experience (UX).
• Working with responsive web designing tools such as HTML, CSS.
• Developing Navigation structure, User interface (UI).

Environment: Prototyping and wireframing using HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, User studies, Qualtrix, Survey Monkey, Error Analysis Techniques.