Selected Successes
EXPERIENCED AND ACCOMPLISHED DESIGNER with a 20-year track record of increasing responsibilities.
Application for frontline workers
Design intuitive frontline T-Mobile application that increased productivity and reduced customer time in stores and the phone.
Scalable design systems
Develop 50+ user-ready, customizable components that let the developer build applications and web pages for any platform, browser, or device using a framework of choice, resulting in a 50% reduction in development time (around)
eGovernment
Designed web application, Gyandoot-eGovernment (a unique government to citizen intranet project implemented in a tribal district in India) resulting in providing access to everyday needs such as land records and benefiting over 500,000 people living in over 600 villages
Specific Competencies
A 20-year history of increasing responsibility for driving innovative solutions to improve TOTAL user experience
Curiosity and Quick learning
Wireframing and prototyping
User interface (UI) design
Responsive web design
Project management
Team and stakeholder management
Empathy
Collaboration & Communication
User research and strategy
Tools with years of experience
Figma
VisualSitemaps
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Sketch
Adobe XD
Photoshop
Zeplin
UXPin
CSS
HTML
Mural
UX UI Project management
Work History
20-year track record of increasing responsibilities
March 2013 – PresentProduct Designer
- Oversaw UX design of digital initiatives for mobile, web and cross-platform customer journeys
- Create sketches to fully functional interactive wireframes using current market tools and processes
- Create visual mockups from wireframes using typography and color
- Front End and Back End Developers – to support the UI for any development work and resolving any issues based on technical constraints
- Built and managed a high functioning UIUX design team
- Established, maintained and promoted design guidelines and interaction standards
April 2012 – March 2013Sr. UXUI Designer
- Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
- Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
- Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
Sep 2009 – April 2012 UXUI Designer
- Identify target user groups and carry out interviews or other types of inquiry to help understand user needs
- Ensure the creation and implementation of customized experiences for the digital user
- Produce high-quality solutions through flow diagrams, graphic designs, storyboards and site maps
- Maintain a competitive edge against competitor products and industry trends
- Perform tests on user interface elements such as CTAs, layouts, target links, landing pages and banners
- Understand product specifications and user psychology and predict what might work for both
Jan 2003 – Dec 2008 Total Experience Designer (TXD)
- Creating user-centered designs by understanding business requirements, and user feedback
- Translating requirements into style guides, design systems, design patterns and attractive user interfaces
- Designing UI elements and tools such as navigation menus, search boxes, tabs, and widgets for our digital assets.
- Testing UI elements such as CTAs, banners, page layouts, page designs, page flows, and target links for landing pages.
- Collaborating with the marketing team, and internal and external designers to ensure the creation and delivery of tailored experiences for the digital user.
- Collaborating effectively with product, engineering, and management teams
Education, Certifications & Awards
MBA - New Age of Innovation
Master Degree
From: National Institute of Business Management, India
MAY 2016
Recommendations
Don't just take my word for it.
- Anupam Shrimal
- Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
"Ravi is an incredible talent who brings fresh and innovative ideas to his designs, helping to excite and inspire others. His original designs never disappoint and he continues to improve on his already vast knowledge of design. He had Designed EasySoft enterprise application UI and UX process with me."
- Mark Shapiro
- Sr. Director of Software Engineering @ Koalafi
"I worked together with Ravi on a project building out components for our web app. He was always friendly, willing to have a discussion on how to build items, open to suggestions and ready to help out wherever needed."
- Nitin Kunte
- Technology Executive
"Ravi is an incredible talent who brings fresh and innovative ideas to his designs, helping to excite and inspire others. His original designs never disappoint and he continues to improve on his already vast knowledge of design."
Portfolio
These are the tip of the iceberg, but I'm proud of all of these projects.