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I'm Vinay Kumar.

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ABOUT ME

I'm a UX designer with 10+ years of professional experience, who has a strong passion to solve user problems by applying design. My love for art and design transformed me from a software engineer to UX designer. I enjoy working in teams to create products, services, processes which have great user value and business value.

Favorite quote: "Get to the right design, before you get the design right."

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WHAT I DO

MY SKILLS

Enable me to focus on right user problems and then design product experiences which are
useful - usable - desirable.

UX Research
Information Design
Wireframe design

Prototyping
Visual Design
UI Development

Everything is

designed.

ALL MY JOURNEY

MY RESUME

A customer advocate who constantly thinks from perspective of user value and business value to build useful, usable and desirable product experiences.

  • WORK
  • EDUCATION

JUL 2016 - AUG 2020

AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER INDIA

UX DESIGNER II

  • Improved customer experience for Amazon D2AS customer service applications.
  • Reduced turn-around time of customer support agents to search and retrieve information about customer issues.
  • Redesigned vendor payment dashboard UX within their existing framework (AUI). Improved the usability scores.

AUG 2014 - JUL 2016

INSIDEVIEW INC.

INTERACTION DESIGNER

  • Designed Unified admin portal interface for Insideview Sales, Marketing, Content management and API products. Improved information architecture and usability of existing applications.
  • Redesign & implementation of new interface for marketing products, Target - prospect list builder and Refresh - Clean Data. Improved site visits and customer conversion rates.

JAN - JUL 2014

Electronic Arts

UX DESIGNER

  • Improved UX for mobile games - Monopoly Bingo & Tetris Blitz. Increased player engagement, retention rate, daily active users.
  • Redesigned information, interface and interactions of existing games on mobile platform (iOS & android) for better game monetization.
  • UX mentored game designers, 3D and 2D concept artists to nurture user centric design process to enhance their deliverable quality.

FEB 2012 - OCT 2013

LOGITECH

UX DESIGNER

  • Harmony Touch, Smart Control and Smart Keyboard.
  • Collaborate with global UX, product and tech teams to drive UX vision, design and implementation.
  • Improved customer engagement, received better product reviews and ratings on retail website and stores.
  • Significantly improved remote setup NPS scores.

APR - NOV 2011

ORACLE INDIA

INTERNSHIP

  • Supply chain management flow design on Fusion platform.
  • Found the opportunity to experience user-centred design for a complex enterprise application where I could apply my academic learning and imbibe industry design standards and processes.
  • Worked with fellow interaction designers and product managers. Realised that the real challenge for a designer is to deliver usable design solutions for problems in a constrained design environment, as per the clients’ and product manager’s requirements.

JUL 2007 - MAR 2009

INTELLIGROUP PVT. LTD.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

  • Designed e-learning applications, guided tutorials for SAP ERP applications.
  • Visual design and frontend UI development for internal, external client HITACHI, DELLOITE, and Magellan on Java and Microsoft.Net platform.
  • Designed posters and volunteered for internal cultural events and recruiting events.

2009 - 2011

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DESIGN, R & D CAMPUS BENGALURU.

PGDPD in Information & Interface Design

2009 - 2011

VASAVI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

1991 - 2000

Little Flower Junior College

Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry

1991 - 2000

HYDERABAD PUBLIC SCHOOL, BEGUMPET

Indian School Certificate Examination

ALL MY WORK

MY WORK

Some samples of my classroom projects at NID.

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Service design for mobile users

Duration: 2 weeks

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Research Project BOSCH INDIA

Duration: 4 weeks

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Pictorial assembly instruction

Duration: 1 week

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Wayfinding and Navigation design

Duration: 2 weeks

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UX redesign of Snakes and Ladders game

Duration: 3 weeks

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Caricature for fun

Duration: 2 weeks

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Story Boarding

Duration: 2 weeks.

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KRITI Art camp and Exhibition

Duration: 1 week

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Form and Color exploration

Duration: 3 weeks

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Cloud PHOTO sharing app design

Duration: 1 week

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Amalgamation of TYPE and form

Duration: 1 week

COLLEAGUES SAY

TESTIMONI

simplicity in things and crafts beautiful user interfaces with love dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.

user
Bryan Castles- UX Designer@Amazon

" Vinay is a great designer that goes incredibly deep on a project, without losing sight of the details or forward movement.

I worked with Vinay for a few years at Amazon, and had several opportunities to peer review his work and to work directly with him on projects. I've always been impressed by his ownership and ability to start making progress on a project right away, and to the extent he will explore a problem.

As a member of team, Vinay would be a valuable design leader. "

user
Rohan Sandeep - Interaction Designer@Oracle
" Vinay is a promising young designer and a great company to be with. I was impressed with his knowledge in Visual design, Interaction design and Information architecture as well as in front end development. I wish him all the very best and hope we get to work together again. "
user
Vijay Bhasker - Design Mentor
" Vinay has a keen sense of understanding the customer's perspective and is efficiently able to translate that into wonderful storyboard, personas, and arrive at an interaction suggestion that positively transforms the customer's business. He is a great asset to have on any UX team. "
user
Senthil Kumar - UX Designer@Insideview

" Vinay is a joyful companion to work with. Within the first few weeks of his new job, He started to handle our extensive admin page redesign exercise with aplomb and diligence, displaying the ability to follow creative direction while adding his own inputs in a diplomatic and useful way. His work definitely led to drastic increase in the internal usage and clarity in workflows for varied professionals.

I can personally vouch him to any organization who needs support in the UX spectrum. Wishing him all success for the future! "
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Devanshi Mehta - Sr.Developer@Amazon
" It has been a privilege to work with Vinay at Amazon. As an engineer with an interest in design, I learned a lot of about UX principles from Vinay during our interactions on multiple projects that we worked on together.

The best part about his design proposals used to be how he explained the reasoning and principles around the same which always helped other stakeholders to understand the whole picture. He was always open for suggestions and even helped us multiple times during tight deadlines. "

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CONTACT

MY LOCATION

Hyderabad, Telangana India.

MY MAIL ADDRESS

blisslifevinay@gmail.com

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