Nishant Jain

Co-Founder

Gurgaon, Haryana, India27 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 18+ years leading design teams across industries.
  • Co-founder of innovative insurance startup targeting Millennials.
  • Expert in user-centered design and product strategy.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned UX and product design leader in Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementUser-centered DesignUser Experience DesignProduct StrategyService DesignMentorshipBrandingContent StrategyLeadershipCommunity BuildingWeb StrategyPrototypingInformation ArchitectureResearch

Other Skills

AxureDesign StrategyDesign ThinkingExperience DesignHeuristic EvaluationHuman-computer InteractionInformation DesignInformation VisualizationPersonaPersonasRequirements GatheringSketchingStrategyTask AnalysisUsability

About

I believe design can solve complex problems that make a difference in people's lives. Design-thinking is simply a structured way to solve a problem. Any problem. My latest venture Toffee Insurance - toffeeinsurance.com - is merely an extension of this design-thinking mindset, where we re-imagine the way insurance is understood and bought by Millennials in India. I have 18+ years of experience in leading, building and running design teams in small to large organizations. As a co-founder/CEO of Design For Use, I have a global consulting experience across geographies and practically in all verticals and platforms. Moreover, I have an academic research background which has always driven me to mentor and teach on a regular basis. I have a Bachelor's from the Delhi College of Engineering, and a Master's in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) from the University of Michigan. I am always open for interesting challenges at the intersection of complex human behaviour and high-technology. Specialties: Business - Building design teams and processes, Tech Partnerships, Innovation eco-systems and go to market strategies based on user research Design - User-centered design process, Lean UX and training, accessibility, RoI-driven decisions, Design Sprints Product - Product Strategy, Roadmap, Product Management, SCRUM methods

Experience

Toffee insurance

Chief Products Officer/Co-Founder

Feb 2017Present · 9 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Toffee aims to change the way Millennials think about and buy insurance. Its products or Toffees are bite sized, micro-event & contextual to this young demographic. Buy a Toffee in under a minute and get claims approved within a couple of hours. We are in Beta now at toffeeinsurance.com - check it out.
Product ManagementUser-centered Design

Doctore

Partner Design

Apr 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Doctore is making high-quality diagnostics affordable and accessible to everyone. Cloud computing, data analytics and design will be critical in making the process and reports understandable by even semi-literate patients.
  • I am responsible for visualizing and designing for an end to end journey of a patient - from ordering a test to an accurate interpretation of results.
User Experience DesignService Design

Popsoda.mobi

Co Founder

May 2015Apr 2016 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Co-founder of Popsoda.mobi, a content platform to discover and engage with upcoming movies. Led the branding, design and content strategy of the platform.
  • It was more of a experiment in product-izing a design-led content publishing platform. We are in the process of leveraging this platform for content-based projects.
BrandingContent Strategy

Faircent.com

Partner Design

Nov 2013Nov 2017 · 4 yrs · Gurgaon, India

  • Over the last three years, led the UX Design practice for Faircent.com from its founding to becoming India's largest P2P lending platform today.
  • Now in a role as a design advisor to help build an internal team and solidifying a data-centric design process to help evolve the product.
User Experience DesignProduct Strategy

Startups

Mentor

Jan 2013Feb 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Regular design mentor and advisor to a bunch of startups through Investopad, TLabs, SAIF, etc. Also, speak at startup conferences to help companies figure out and implement the right design leadership and processes.
  • Also co-curated a design community in Delhi towards a monthly Design Day event.
MentorshipUser Experience Design

Design for use

CEO

Sep 2005Present · 20 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Founder of the company in the business of designing compelling user experiences for interactive media. Using user centered methodologies, we propose relevant, usable and engaging interfaces.
  • Some of our prominent clients include, The Whole Foods Market, HP, Cannondale, US AirForce, MakeMyTrip, Groupon, Mahindra and Tata.
  • We have offices in Austin, Gurgaon and Sydney.
User Experience DesignUser-centered Design

Sbc (now at&t)

Sr Manager Web Strategy

Jan 2003Jun 2005 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Austin, Texas Area

  • Post acquisition of Prodigy by SBC, the design team became an independent group to help several telecom initiatives. My role became more forward looking where we were doing lot of prototypes for what we believed to be the future of telecom.
  • One of projects became UVerse to unify all services in a single pipe towards a smarter home. I believe this thinking later came to be known as Internet of Things.
Web StrategyPrototyping

Prodigy communications

Sr. Information Architect

Jun 2001Jan 2003 · 1 yr 7 mos · Austin, Texas Area

  • One of the early startups to sell and requisition consumer broadband access. Our team was the first to conceive and design tabbed browsing for instance. Design helped reduce service calls significantly.
Information ArchitectureUser Experience Design

Scient

Sr. Information Architect

Sep 2000Mar 2001 · 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • A senior designer in one of the first eConsulting agencies to help move traditional businesses to the web. Scient later got merged with other similar agencies to become Razorfish today.
User Experience DesignWeb Strategy

Association for indias development

Chapter President

May 1999May 2008 · 9 yrs · Ann Arbor and Austin, USA

  • Association for India's Development helped raise awareness and fund important social causes in India from the USA. It was then largely a student-driven organization, which is not so today.
  • I helped start and grow two significant chapters for AID. The two chapters became one of the largest in terms of volunteers and money raised after mother chapter.
LeadershipCommunity Building

Collaboratory for research on electronic work

Research Scholar

Jun 1998Jun 2000 · 2 yrs · Ann Arbor, Michigan

  • Actionable research on designing and observing a distributed labs for AIDS research (with a grant from National Institutes of Health) and for Software Development (with Lucent Bell Labs).
ResearchUser Experience Design

Education

University of Michigan

MS — Human Computer Interaction (School of Information)

Jan 1996Jan 1998

Delhi College of Engineering

B.E. — Civil Engineering

Jan 1992Jan 1996

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