SUMMARY
* Passionate about designing consumer as well as enterprise applications that are simple, easy to use, and intuitive.
* Skilled at understanding business requirements and translating them into simple and engaging design solutions with solid understanding of the User Centered Design process.
* Looking for a mid-to senior level Interaction Designer or User Experience Designer position.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Interaction Designer (consultant), Western Digital |
Jan 2014 – Current |
* Provide interaction designs for the desktop, web, and mobile products.
* Work closely with product management to refine and incorporate product requirements.
* Work closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation and quick response to issues.
* Create high-fidelity prototype using Balsamic for usability studies.
* Collaborate with researchers to test new and existing designs, and incorporate feedback back into the design.
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CX Lead Interaction Designer (consultant), Wells Fargo |
Feb 13 – Sep 13 |
* Create user-friendly designs for web and mobile applications related to Online Sales and Marketing Platform.
* Collaborate closely with product managers to develop innovative and easy to use designs that meet business goals and user needs.
* Create high-fidelity prototype using iRise for usability studies.
* Create UI specification document for use by engineering team.
* Collaborate with cross-functional team and ensure the product is built to expectations.
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User Experience Designer (consultant), LexisNexis |
Dec 11- Jan 13 |
* Lead UX designer for redesign of the entire Admin application (My Lexis). The application manages users and product authorizations as well as customer information for LexisNexis internal and external accounts. · Collaborate with team members from engineering, product management, technical writer, visual designer, and user researchers while leading the design efforts.
* Work closely with product managers and developers to define the interactions flows.
* Create high fidelity interactive prototypes using Axure for user feedback sessions and communicating the business solution to stakeholders.
* Contribute to design patterns and Admin Portal guidelines used by designers, developers, and other stakeholders.
* Provide design solutions for different applications used by LexisNexis customers.
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CX Lead Interaction Designer (consultant), Wells Fargo |
May 10- Sep 11 |
* Understand business requirements, use cases, business flows, and functionalities of different web applications used by Wells Fargo customer support representatives, employees, and customers.
* Conduct contextual enquiries with the customer support group to understand their experience with current tools, study their environment, and find usability issues.
* Develop conceptual designs based on use cases and functional requirements and create wireframes/storyboard and/or mockups.
* Collaborate with the cross functional teams to recommend the best design solutions to the identified problems that meet both business goals and user needs.
* Review the final code to ensure engineering teams implemented the UI as designed.
* Design and conduct survey to gather feedback about an internal tool used by the UX group, analyze the results, provide recommendations, and present the outcome to the cross-functional teams.
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Interaction Designer, GottaPark, Inc. |
Mar 09- Mar 10 |
Parking Application for iPhone
*Conduct research related to small screen, touch screen, and context awareness devices.
*Identify user requirements and create task flows based on use cases.
*Define user personas, scenarios, interaction model and workflows.
*Create design concepts (paper-and-pencil), wireframes/story board (Visio) and high-fidelity prototype (HTML-Dream weaver) for user testing.
* Conduct usability test, analyze the results, provide recommendations, and present the outcome to the project team.
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Interaction Design Intern, Oracle Corporation | June 08 -August 08 |
Oracle Simplayer
* Understand requirements, task flows, and study functions and limitations of existing Oracle’s Simplayer design.
* Develop designs based on usability principles and create wireframes in MS Visio.
* Present various designs to the stakeholders and iterate designs as per the feedback.
* Deliver storyboard with the improved designs.
Heuristic Evaluation of Oracle widgets
* Understand functions and interaction of existing CRM Oracle widgets (Contacts, Top Accounts, and Top Deals)
* Conduct heuristic evaluation and provide design recommendations for issues discovered with each widget.
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EDUCATION |
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| MS in Human Factors Engineering (HCI), San Jose State University,CA |
Aug 07 - Dec 09 |
| BE in Information Technology, B. N. College of Engineering (PUSAD), India |
Jun 01 - Jun 05 |
SKILLS
Interaction Design: persona, scenarios, task flows, site maps, task analysis, wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps, paper-prototyping, and rapid prototyping
User Research: heuristic reviews, cognitive walkthrough, competitive analysis, and usability testing
Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, and Java Script
Tools/Packages: Visio, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and SnagIt
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ONLINE PORTFOLIO: www.aartishriniwar.com
VISA STATUS:
Authorized To Work In USA
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