Ajay Kothapalli

Head of Design

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 1 mo experience

AI Enabled

Key Highlights

Increased user retention from 12% to 25%.
Led UX design for multiple successful gaming products.
Mentored aspiring UX designers to achieve their career goals.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX designer with extensive experience in gaming and B2B SaaS industries.

Contact

naniajay@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

MentoringProduct Design ManagementUx ResearchUx DesignGame Ux DesignData-centric DesignB2b Saas DesignEnterprise Ux Design

Other Skills

AndroidArtificial Intelligence (AI)Card SortingCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Data-driven Decision MakingEnd User ResearchFramerGame DesignGame UXGoogle AnalyticsHTMLHands-on DesignHeuristic EvaluationIllustratorInformation Architecture

About

I'm a UX designer & an all round good guy, building awesome things for the web and mobile. I live in Bengaluru, work remotely with seriously cool startups, on seriously cool stuff. My work is to ease the communication between a human and a device. Portfolio Links: Dribbble: https://dribbble.com/AjUX Behance:https://www.behance.net/AjayUX

Experience

Adplist.org

UX Mentor

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Remote

-Mentoring Students

Springboard

UX Mentor

Nov 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mentoring students and guiding them to achieve their goals and helping them starting their career.

Hands-on DesignMentoring

Mobile premier league (mpl)

Product Design Manager

Oct 2021 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading the entire Monetisation pod’s design. I have increased the D7 retention from 12% to 25% by changing user behaviour by making them form a habit of coming to the app every day.

LeadershipHands-on DesignTeamworkResearch SkillsUX managerMobile Application Design+2

Moengage inc.

2 roles

Product Design Manager

Jan 2021 – Sep 2021 · 8 mos

LeadershipPaper PrototypingHands-on DesignHeuristic EvaluationUX managerProduct Design Management

Lead UX Designer

Jul 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Driving the entire UX of Moengage
Research, Manage, Design, Collaboration and more....

LeadershipPaper PrototypingHands-on DesignHeuristic EvaluationUX managerUX Design

Moonfrog labs

Sr Game User Experience Designer

Oct 2018 – Jul 2019 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Games have been my passion for a long time and entering into one of the best gaming product company has opened up new challenges, learnings.
Redesigned cricket betting feature to increase first time betting by 2X
Talking to players, Empathizing with them and managing entire User Research for TPG
Designing those Player Journeys and experiences
Owning the entire UX for TPG (Teen Patti Gold game)
Mentoring UX Designers in other games
B2C App

Paper PrototypingHands-on DesignHeuristic EvaluationGame UX Design

Zeotap

2 roles

Principal UX Designer

May 2018 – Oct 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

The entire Zeotap experience was designed from scratch by me and the product involves
Data Visualisations
Data-centric design
Complex data mix and match
User Reserach with Clients

Paper PrototypingHands-on DesignHeuristic EvaluationData-centric Design

Sr. UX/UI Designer

Apr 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

-B2B Saas App

Paper PrototypingHands-on DesignHeuristic EvaluationB2B SaaS Design

Team8 solutions llc

User Experience Designer

Dec 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

It was Kaybus earlier bought by Prysm in Jan 2016.
Worked on those minute details what matters to users most. Owned the entire Kaybus Enterprise product and Designed some interesting features. Done IA, User research with internal stake holders

Paper PrototypingHands-on DesignHeuristic EvaluationEnterprise UX Design

Realty redefined

Senior UX/UI Designer (Acquired by Quickr)

Dec 2014 – Nov 2015 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Aquired by Quikr
Setup UX in Realty Redefined from scratch. Worked on redesigning of the CRM. Designed Mobile app from scratch (Android and Ios). Worked on AgentSearch app from wireframes to Visual design phase.
The apps that are live on Playstore
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rr.agentsearch
 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rr.consultants&hl=en

Paper PrototypingHeuristic EvaluationUX Design

Mahathi

UX Designer (Contract)

Feb 2014 – Nov 2014 · 9 mos · Vizag

UI and UX design. WCAG Documentation
B2C Healthcare app

Serco,google

UX Designer (Contract)

Mar 2013 – Jan 2014 · 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on the user profile page of Google's backend maps managing software pushpin. Done user testing with internal users to redesign some of the features.
B2B enterprise app