Oct 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Heading the Google for Work design team at Google India
• Responsible for the Google Admin Console (mobile + web), and the Google Apps Marketplace (apps.google.com/marketplace)
• Google Launchpad co-organizer and UX Mentor since Feb 2015
• https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2015/09/a-brand-new-google-apps-marketplace.html
• https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/03/employees-can-view-and-access-their.html
• https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/google-device-policy/id763852089?mt=8
• https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/manage-access-third-party-apps-new-g-suite-security-controls/
• https://support.google.com/a/answer/6321530

Jul 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As one of the senior-most designers at SAP Labs India, I strove to bridge the user experience gap between enterprise solutions and consumer products through design thinking and customer co-innovation. I focused on E-Commerce, Big Data, and the Internet of Things.
• Specifically:
• Conceptualized a next-generation marketplace for the SAP HANA product/services ecosystem
• Designed an analytical application that leverages the capabilities of SAP HANA to empower Marketing Analysts with omni-channel Big Data visualization and insights for improved customer engagement
• Designed an immersive Smart Vending Machine experience that builds on the Internet of Things premise to enable connected retail. Forbes featured this in article published in December 2014: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2014/12/12/why-you-wont-recognize-vending-machines-in-a-few-years/
• My blog posts on the SAP Community Network, talking about some of the work that I did, can be found here:
• http://scn.sap.com/people/jayawant.tewari/content

Sep 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I headed User Experience at Myntra.com - India's largest fashion and lifestyle e-commerce company - balancing short-term tactical design interventions with long-term strategic design initiatives. I also built and mentored Myntra's UX team, and uninhibitedly indulged my obsessive pixel disorder.
• I was Myntra's very first UX designer. I eventually recruited a small but supremely talented team of designers whom I mentored and managed.
• Before building the UX team at Myntra, I was the sole gatekeeper of its UI, and the designer behind its major transformation in 2012. The new UI established Myntra as a user-friendly fashion-forward online retailer, and resulted in improved customer engagement and conversion, as well as acquisition and retention. Ever since, Myntra's UI has earned accolades from customers and critics on various fora.
• I was also responsible for the design of:
• Myntra Style Studio : a first-of-its-kind virtual trial room that enables customers to mix and match apparel and accessories to create, purchase and share their own 'looks'.
• Mobile Myntra : a responsive mobile website offering an app-like experience on touch-enabled smartphones and tablets that doubled daily revenue from mobile devices for Myntra. I followed a mobile-first design approach, deconstructing key e-commerce task flows like navigational drill-down, search, filtering / sorting, and order placement / checkout to design them afresh for a mobile context.
• Myntra iPad App : with a focus on customer engagement, the iPad app offers curated fashion content through sweeping horizontal panoramas. Apart from some novel interactions for the key task flows, I defined a modern and minimalistic flat-UI visual language for the app.
• I joined Myntra as Principal UX Designer in 2011 and was promoted to AVP-UX in 2013.

Jul 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Enhanced the usability, efficiency, and effectiveness of key workflows of a next-generation storage management product.
• This included defining UI patterns and guidelines, including a framework for analytics and information visualization.
• Also conducted user interviews across geographies to understand user goals and concerns, and consolidated the findings from these to influence product requirements.

Oct 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos

• I was the lead designer for the following:
• Next-generation server landscape monitoring application (full-cycle user-centred design from contextual inquiry to usability testing)
• Rich internet application for analysis, visualisation, and navigation of consumer reviews (in collaboration with SAP Research)
• Rich internet application for bow-tie based risk management
• Mobile BI - real-time data analysis and enterprise search tools for the RIM Blackberry based on native device UI
• Proof-of-concept of collaborative business intelligence environment for the Microsoft Surface

Apr 2008 – Oct 2008 · 6 mos

• These were my key projects:
• Researched new information visualisation paradigms for automation control room Human-Machine Interfaces
• Planned and executed contextual inquiry visits to customer sites, consolidated findings and developed analysis model
• Revamped visual design and information architecture of Human-Machine Interface of a supervisory control and data acquisition product used in thousands of power plants across the world.

Jul 2007 – Apr 2008 · 9 mos

• I was a part of the Research and Breakthrough Innovation business unit, and here is what I worked on:
• Key Customer-Relationship Management scenarios for SAP Business ByDesign
• All mobile scenarios for Customer-Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management for SAP Business ByDesign
• Planned and conducted usability testing of SAP Business ByDesign products in a laboratory environment
• Proof-of-concept of a tool that visualises enterprise information as a semantic network

Jan 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jul 2005 – Dec 2005 · 5 mos

• Project: User Centered Redesign of the Knowledge Management Intranet at MindTree
• Employed extensive, customised, user-centered design methodology, comprising heuristic reviews, user surveys, server log analysis, content inventories, end-user and stakeholder interviews, card sorts
• Deliverables included personas, scenarios, A2-sized isometric information architecture blueprints, wireframes

Jan 2002 – Present · 24 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore / Ahmedabad

• I am also a moonlighting bassist, and have played with the bands Dry State (Ahmedabad; 2004-10), Mutiny (Bangalore; 2000-05), Kryptos (Bangalore; 2006-13), and more recently, Vital Signs (2014-15). My stage persona may be intimidating, what with all that leather and steel, but I assure you that I am most capable of exchanging pleasantries off-stage! :-)