Abhay Vyas

Head of Design

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in enhancing user experience.
  • Expert in user-centered design and design strategy.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional design teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX Leader in the SaaS industry with a focus on user-centered design.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignDesign StrategyInteraction DesignService DesignDesign Research

Other Skills

Information DesignDesign ThinkingHuman Computer InteractionExperience DesignEthnographyVisual DesignUser Interface DesignHeuristic EvaluationUsability EngineeringUsabilityUser ResearchCard SortingInformation ArchitectureUser ScenariosUser Interface

About

Young, always cheerful, and passionate UX Leader. Practicing user-centered design in Bangalore, India. Well acknowledged as a photographer and auto-ethnographer. I've spent the last few years helping various companies and teams to create an effortless user experience and design delightful digital products. This experience allowed me to acquire a wide range of skills as a designer. Building products from the start, working side by side with developers, releasing new features, analyzing customers' interactions, and seeing how people use my designs and continuously improve them is what I love the most about my job.

Experience

Salesforce

3 roles

Director of UX Design

Promoted

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Being responsible for enhancing the end-user product experience within Salesforce's Industries Clouds and Platforms. This encompasses overseeing a range of key clouds and tools such as the Business Rules Engine, Loyalty Management, Integrations, Schedular, Feedback Management, OmniStudio, Pricing Engine Context Service, and more.
User Experience DesignDesign Strategy

Principal UX Designer

Jan 2022Jan 2022 · 0 mo

  • Lead the design and product (to an extent) for Salesforce Business Rules Engine that empowers anyone, including Business Users (aka non-technical), to build, test, and execute rules with a drag and drop no-code interface.
User Experience DesignInteraction Design

User Experience Lead

Jan 2020Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

  • Lead the end-to-end product experience for Industries Public Sector Cloud. Products include License Permit and Inspection and various other solutions as part of the Public Sector.
User Experience DesignService Design

Microsoft

2 roles

Senior Product Designer & Design Manager

Promoted

Jul 2016Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos · On-site

  • Helped Microsoft’s D365 in building world-class customer service products. Delivered innovative designs timely without compromising on any experience. Mentored new designers, researchers, and UX writers. Made a successful alliance between the design and engineering teams, which helped align UX priorities and design processes appropriately. Before D365, I was responsible for Bing (Local and Education Answers, Bing Places for Business) and the Windows app experience team where I designed Microsoft Money App.
User Experience DesignDesign Research

UX Designer II

Oct 2014Jun 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

  • Led design efforts for Bing Places, Business Answers, and the Education vertical, crafting user-first search experiences that helped millions discover local businesses, services, and learning resources. Drove cross-functional collaboration with product, research, and AI teams to elevate content relevance, trust, and engagement across web and mobile.
  • Designed seamless cross-app experiences for the Microsoft 365 suite, contributing to the horizontal UX framework used across core productivity apps. Led end-to-end design for the Microsoft Finance app on Windows, focusing on clarity, usability, and integration with the broader Windows ecosystem. Collaborated closely with platform, accessibility, and design system teams to ensure consistency and scalability.
User Experience DesignInteraction Design

Naukri.com

2 roles

Principal Interaction Designer

Jan 2013Jan 2014 · 1 yr

  • Played lead role for Naukri’s recruitment site. Initiated, designed & launched various products & experiences from scratch which contributed to companies' financial growth & user acquisition through simplified UX by using. Used Analytics, Algorithms, user psychology, and Efficient User-Flows which turned the product (and the business) around objectives.
Interaction DesignUser Experience Design

Senior Interaction Designer

Jan 2011Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

Cks consulting pvt. ltd.

Design Researcher

Aug 2011Dec 2011 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • An ethnographic study was conducted across selected Asian countries to realize the presence of
  • mobile-communication in the livelihood of users belonging to the bottom of pyramid population. The study was conducted in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia with an objective to gauge the existing communication model which on optimization may lead to betterment of lives especially for those employed in the sub-urban areas.
  • Telephone use was perceived to provide a much higher benefit in providing a sense of security in terms of acting in an emergency and in maintaining social relationships than benefiting financially though the potential for greater income earning ability and saving costs at the BOP and this seems to be continuing trend even in 2011. The studies have consistently shown the phone being used primarily for social purposes, with more “utilitarian” uses (such as use for business, financial or work-related) being secondary. The most recent findings show however that there is a segment of the BOP which uses the phone for utilitarian purposes on a daily basis.
Design Research

Whirlpool corporation

Interaction Design Intern

Jan 2011Aug 2011 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Project demanded creating a user interface for the smart eco-washer machine
  • along with its iOS app that enables laundry-monitoring from smart devices
Interaction Design

Megrisoft limited

Search Engine Optimization Specialist

Jan 2008Jan 2009 · 1 yr · Chandigarh Area, India

  • Closely worked with the technology team to optimize the page rank on the search results page, thereby, increasing the volume of visitors on websites.

Education

National Institute of Design

Master's degree — Interaction Design | Design for Digital Experience

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Executive General Management Program

Jan 2020Jan 2021

Graphic Era Deemed to be University

Bachelor of Computer Application

Jan 2005Jan 2008

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