Akshay Vaidya

Co-Founder

Pune, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in B2B digital solutions and design thinking.
  • Proficient in cross-functional team leadership.
  • Extensive experience across diverse sectors.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B design and UX expert with a focus on digital solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience (ux)Cross-functional Team LeadershipHuman Computer InteractionTeamworkNegotiation

Other Skills

Adobe Creative SuiteAffinity DiagrammingArt DirectionBusiness StrategyCognitive WalkthroughContextual DesignContextual InquiryDesign ResearchDesign ThinkingFacilitationGraphic DesignGraphicsHeuristic EvaluationIconographyIllustration

About

Business analyst and experience designer, proficient at providing comprehensive solutions for B2B digital solutions, while interfacing with various functions of enterprises including with business operations, sales, and marketing. Experience with small- and large-scale projects, with the ability to identify relevant patterns, latent opportunities, and insights into future use and evolution of work for creating value for stakeholders in the long-term. Research: pledge logo paradigm, ethics triage canvas, ethics mapping for personas, product/service/artefact canvas, graphic design element modulation tool + methodology, human needs matrix, philosophy of design. Continued research into Design Thinking x Mapping, combining hands-on problem solving with topographical intelligence and the agility to move across levels of abstraction to identify and solve problems. Teaching UX and design thinking. Apply design thinking to solve problems. Focus on using a wide range of heuristic tools, industry standards, and strong communication skills to deliver value with optimisation across the board. Core problem-solving skills, using facilitation and collaboration for results with handoff to relevant teams and training. Function-first approach, formal design theory, mathematics, rational assumptions, learning from collaborators with domain expertise enhances work. Worked within a wide range of sectors amongst enterprises, emerging businesses, and non-profits in the major services sectors, such as health & fitness, medical education, healthcare management, professional training, outsourcing and offshoring, engineering services, live entertainment, tourism, arts, F&B.

Experience

Lightningsloth

Partner, Design Lead, Art Director

May 2016Present · 9 yrs 10 mos · Pune Area, India

Cross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience (UX)

Self-employed

Freelance Design Consultant

Jan 2013Jan 2016 · 3 yrs · Pune Area, India

  • Worked with clients from a wide variety of industries including: health & fitness, medical education, non profits, professional training, outsourcing, trucking, live entertainment, and tourism; verticals include identity, marketing collateral, mobile apps, and advertising.
Human Computer InteractionUser FlowsUser Experience (UX)

Eduezee

Design Lead and Editor

Jan 2012Jan 2013 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

  • Responsible for product development. Contributed to production and client relations.
TeamworkNegotiation

Simplified solutions

Client Relationship Executive

Jan 2011Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

  • Responsible for bringing businesses into the service. Cold pitches, face-to-face. Collateral design, content creation.
TeamworkNegotiation

Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Bachelor of Arts - BA

Jan 2015Jan 2018

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