Vinay M Thakur

Head of Design

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India14 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Designed a highly-rated educational app boosting engagement by 30%
  • Led a team to create a user-friendly e-commerce platform increasing sales by 20%
  • Implemented user-centered design improving B2B product satisfaction by 50%
Stackforce AI infers this person is a UI/UX designer with extensive experience in B2C digital product design.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience Design (ued)Visual DesignMobile Application Design

Other Skills

Adobe Creative SuiteAdobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAdvertisingCSSCorel DrawCreative IdeationDesign GuidelinesDesign ManagementDreamweaverHTMLHuman Computer InteractionIllustratorInteraction DesignLogo Design

About

I am a highly innovative and passionate UI UX / Product designer with over 13 years of experience in a variety of domains such as General insurance , E-commerce, Educational Domain, CMS/OMS Products, Digital Entertainment OTT Products, and Online News Portals. My high proficiency in Visual design, UX design, HCI, User-centered design principles, and methodologies allows me to design and develop products from concept ideas into production with a high degree of success in a competitive landscape. I am a visionary leader with problem-solving skills resulting in successful digital products. My multi-disciplinary and varied industry experience has enabled me to design products that are minimal, simple, and delightful to the user. I specialize in UX Design strategy, Product design, User experience, Usability testing, and User interface design. Achievements: - Successfully designed and launched a highly-rated educational app that increased engagement and retention by 30%. - Led a team of junior designers to create a user-friendly e-commerce platform that resulted in a 20% increase in sales. - Implemented a user-centered design approach for a B2B product that improved user satisfaction by 50%. In addition to my professional accomplishments, I am also a travel addict and nature lover. I am skilled in handling projects and meeting close deadlines, and I enjoy mentoring junior designers.

Experience

Tata aig general insurance company limited

Lead UX

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • 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.
  • User-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate the designs.
  • Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
  • Asking smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas.
  • Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and usertesting experiences for digital products.
Creative IdeationDesign ManagementDesign GuidelinesUser Experience Design (UED)Visual Design

Eros international plc

Design Lead

May 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Methodology rich, standard approaches for design deliverables including design roadmap, research plans, UI/UX competitive analysis, user identification & flows, sketch to figma migration and prepare OKRs for junior designers.
  • Understanding complex feature sets and their dependencies while delivering a design strategy that accounts for the capabilities and limitations of the product.
  • Communicating user research findings with cross-functional partners to drive impact.
  • Creating reports and sharing monthly design progress with the larger team. Setting KPA and learning goals for the junior designers. Setting the interview process for new designers..
User Experience Design (UED)Mobile Interaction DesignUser ResearchWireframingInteraction DesignUX Research+5

Cognizant

User Experience Designer

Jul 2019Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Understanding the project by going through various documents like Business Requirement Document (BRD) / Functional Requirement Document (FRD) or talking to client/BA for better clarity
  • Creating the Estimation sheet planning for UX related activities
  • According to the requirement, planning and conducting UX activities like Stakeholder Interview, Card Sorting, Competitive Analysis, Heuristic Evaluation
  • On the basis of the above activities creating Personas, User Task Flow, Wireframes, Clickable Prototypes, Visual Designs
  • From conducting multiple show and tell sessions with the client to presenting the final output and taking feedback and/or approvals for the same. Received appreciation mail from client on several occasions
  • Working in a cross functional team and coordinating with various department
User Experience Design (UED)Wireframing

Epic channel india

Sr Manager UI/UX

Jan 2018Jun 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • As Founding member of Epic Channel Digital Team, single handedly designing and delivering Epic On OTT Platform website & App using “design thinking” methodology. 15,000+ app downloads & web user witnessed in span of 1 month post launch.
  • Brainstorming latestly.com both web (responsive) and mobile app, ranked as India’s top 15 online news portal, currently in development stage.
  • Designing the website and responsive mobile site afresh, as founding member. An online portal for spiritual & religious product, shubhkart.com witnessed 40 % increase in the orders post launch.
  • Actively working on an ongoing project docubay.com, a digital platform for documentary videos using “design thinking”approach from gathering requirements from the stakeholders, final delivery of the product.
User Experience Design (UED)WireframingMobile Application Design

Avenues india private limited

Sr. UI/UX Designer

Feb 2017May 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Leading a team of 3 designers & UI Developers, reporting to V.P to implement product and initiate design vision.
  • Formulate and implement “new user journeys” for complete B2B portal.
  • Educating and mentoring onboard trainees of the design team.
  • Handling the daily Marketing and Category Manager Chores from marketing collateral to category promotional copies and other required materials
  • Quality Check of products adding new features to the design thereby dissolving the pertaining bugs or issues.
User Experience Design (UED)Wireframing

Shirsa labs

Lead UI/UX Designer

Nov 2015Jan 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Assigned as a lead designer, role included demonstrating leadership, consistency and improving user experience for all the digital products thereby calculating the average time spent by the user on the portal.
  • Working closely and gathering requirements from the C.E.O. & major stake holders of the products.
  • Introducing improved features and revamping the website and app for Android and IOS to serve the aimed target audience.
  • Conceiving planetofgui.com an edutainment porta and pockettmoneycard.com a money saving app, designing from scratch including survey and research, taking user interviews, creating user flows, organizing user testing and evaluating design changes.
User Experience Design (UED)WireframingMobile Application Design

Www.malabargoldanddiamonds.com

Visualizer / UI Designer

Nov 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs · Andheri

  • Maintaining the whole designing of the website

Future group retail india ltd

web designer

Aug 2011Oct 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Designing web pages

Education

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Commerce — Commerce

Jan 2006Jan 2011

Bhavans AH Wadia

Bachelor's degree — Commerce

Jan 1994Jan 2002

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