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Summary of responsibilities : * Responsible for product delivery, end-to-end * Manages web/mobile application in an agile environment, as product owner * Design and implement a web-based, cloud-based, scalable UI and user Experience * Uses lean methodologies to develop and iterate on a minimum viable product (MVP) vision Currently used UI tools www.samita.info * Creates user experience and development artifacts - including wireframes, workflow dia- grams, prioritized backlog of stories, and road map * Conducts analysis of related products and user experiences * Provide graphics design leadership during implementation Design applications that are highly scalable and highly interactive * Rapidly converts ideas, prototypes and mock ups to production quality user interfaces * Uses validated research findings to make informed decisions on product strategy and design * Leads cross-functional teams (based in U.S. and Belarus) Summary of responsibilities : * Providing strategic project guidance, monitoring, troubleshooting, feedback and hands-on Applied expertise in iRise, a prototype participation in project activities development and requirements gath- * Leading through persuasion and influence ering tool, to deliver high-quality User www.samita.info * Collaborating with a clients, technical teams and marketing. Interface concepts. * Maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction * Communicating effectively with all levels of clients She is sound with the following iRise modules * Data and page navigation * Page simulation using common Group FMG, London widgets Role : Information Architect (Freelance) * Using Decisions and setting Rules * Scenario Ideation She was freelancing for Group FMG for designing a sophisticated reporting tool on iPad. This * Creating Templates and Masters tool should have powerful data visualization interfaces along with number of interactive graphs * Using Page Actions and Events and charts. The tool will also able to handle multiple conditional sub tasks and drill down fur- * Creation of Tables ther layers. * Using the Style Manager Samita used iPads default multi-touch gesture for designing this app and the Information archi - * Exporting iDocs and Reports tecture was a critical challenge for it. July 2011 to Zensar technologies, Pune - India January 2012 Role : Sr. Information Architect She was working closely as an interaction designer and Information Architect collaborating with cross-functional team to assess product requirements, creating UI models, user task and interaction flows, screen designs, user-interface specifications, conceptual diagrams, wire frames, visual mock ups, and prototypes. Presenting design work to the marketing team, product team, and executives for review and feedback. Provide heuristic evaluation, usability analysis. Key tools using Axure RP Pro - 6.0 Visio Adobe Photoshop Latest UX trend specialization Adobe Dreamweaver * Responsive UX design: Key clients and projects www.samita.info User Interface (UI) Consistency Across Devices Vs. Device-Specific UI Conven - Indian Navy : Digital signage and billboard user experience design: tions : Focus, Familiarity, Functional- The INS Mumbai (D62) is the third of the Delhi-class guided-missile destroyers in active- service with the Indian Navy. Samita has designed an unique user experience for its various ity, positioning, optimization electronic billboards and LCD displayes for its Western Naval Headquarter. She has created rare pieces of timelapse based interactions, adding new language such as blink, color or * Applying Straw man as a UX problem sound based user interactions for a no key control display system. solving technique Cisco * User experience for data analytic and Cisco Derivative work process was designed for Cisco learning partners for managing data visualization various e-learning tools, modules and subscriptions. * Persona and scenario based design * Conducting research and translating into Affinity diagram Dec 2010 WIPRO - Bangalore, India - July 2011 * Flat UI design Role : Lead, User Experience Designer - Product design * UX under Agile process life cycle What she did: She joined Wipro global operation team as a senior usability engineer. This team is mainly responsible for overall user experience strategy, planning, process and allocating resources on various consulting projects. Apart from the core user experience team, the team also has graphic designers, web designers and technical writers. Her initial challenges were to collect information about the multiple piece of software that already exists among various delivery platforms across Wipro. The biggest problem was defining a scope, summarizing all discrete modules under various open source platforms and tools as a single unified user experience without breaking the process life cycle. Responsibility : * Provide design innovation and leadership on projects for a new web-based integrated Project man- agement tool (Wipro FlexAD) * Serve as lead UX consultant and focal point for all design deliverable and tasks: Site maps, wire frames, visual designs, quick prototyping, user scenarios, user task analysis, user goals, UI specifica - tions, and usability testing. Projects, including dashboards, widgets, and products * Responsibilities included: driving design presentations, information architecture, information design, interactive design, visual design, technical implementation, and defining graphic style and UI standards. Requirements gathering, test case development, test lab development Key tools used Balsemiq mock ups Visio Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator for icon design Technical and Software skill Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML 5.0, CSS 3.0 Prototyping Tool : iRise Studio, Adobe Dream - Key methodology used weaver, HTML, CSS. Card sorting and IA redesign Paper prototyping and Low fidelity prototyping Mockup and Wireframe tools : Sketch 3, Interviewing user Invision, Zepilin, Axure, Omnigraffle, Balsamiq, Heuristic evaluation Visio etc. www.samita.info Digital Imaging: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Pho - toshop February 2008 Capgemini - Bangalore India /Atlanta USA Web Publishing: Adobe Dreamweaver, Boot- - December 2010 Role : Sr. User Experience Designer strap, JQuery What she did : Multimedia : Adobe Captivate, Sound Forge - defining the user experience strategy and the information design ( Card sorting, Affinity diagram ) Print Publishing: Adobe InDesign. - Coordinating both the creative and the developing processes. (Prototyping, Interaction designing) - Focus on converting design solution into advance front end technology Project Management: Microsoft Word, Micro- (Open source UI tools like Yahoo UI, Ext-Js ) soft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft - Performs expert evaluation, conducting usability testing (Heuristic Evaluation, Morae ) - Manages branding and standards. Outlook Programming & Implementation: advanced Key tools used iRise - Extensively used for all prototype HTML and CSS, XML, JavaScript Usability test - Visio ing tool : Basic of MORAE Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign for UI spec writing Platforms: Macintosh OS, Microsoft Windows Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML 5.0, CSS 3.0 " Key clients Vonage Once the overall satis- Coca Cola General Motors faction rate and other Sony parameter arrived Cli - In Vonage project: ent's specific bench - She worked as a part of six members team had conducted Interact usability testing in Holmdel on Retention, Customer Care, and Tier 2 Technical Support. Preliminary research findings delivered a 58% mark (80%) (Actual re- satisfaction rate with the current system. sults showed 88% to Phase 2: Creating information Architecture and basic concept design 89%) I started creating She finally prepared three samples of Agent persona and their work under various scenarios. Based on these scenarios the design team started brainstorming with paper prototypes and sketches. user interface specifi- Finally I and my team had come up with the high level scope. She did sample Rapid prototype (Using Visio): After consolidating through focus group with team cation document with " Phase 3: Detail design and changes through iterative usability testing : the help of visual de - She was using iRise to deliver high-quality user interface concepts for iterative usability testing. The
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