Gaurang Gupta

Design Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led design for Microsoft Teams search features.
  • Co-founded AI chatbot for tax-saving investments.
  • Published research paper at Mobile HCI conference.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned UX designer with a strong focus on Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience DesignDesign StrategyProduct DesignService Design

Other Skills

User ExperiencePrototypingHuman-computer InteractionAI/MLProduct ManagementDesignMobile ApplicationsIdeationIterative DesignInformation DesignInformation ArchitectureUser-centered DesignUser Interface DesignVisual DesignUsability Engineering

About

I design digital artefacts, over the last nine years with my enterprising spirit I have been associated with numerous startups & product companies across Finance, Retail, Healthcare, Hospitality and Media. Before joining Microsoft, I was working on a banking product, helping bank users to invest better for tax saving purpose with an AI/ML enabled chatbot, The solution is now under Axis bank innovation labs. In the year 2016, one of my gig i.e Showuphotel was selected by Google for its launchpad program. I have also a paper published by ACM, titled Pulse - "Tangible touch", It was selected for the presentation at the 12th Mobile HCI conference held in Lisbon.

Experience

16 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

Senior Design Manager

Jan 2018Present · 8 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Leading the Search feature area, redesigned search offering in Teams such as SERP, autosuggest and other feature areas. Also driving One Microsoft - search coherence effort, working across with different teams in Microsoft office 365.
User ExperienceDesign StrategyPrototypingHuman-computer InteractionUser Experience Design

Pally technologies

Co-Founder, Director

Nov 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Pally was an AI-based chatbot which advises a salaried individual over chat and drafts his personalised tax saving investment portfolio. The bot is designed with an innovative way to gather user’s payslip data making on-boarding experience delightful. Pally was shortlisted by the Axis bank Accelerator Program at innovation lab 'ThoughtFactory', in Bengaluru. Axis Bank is the India’s third largest private sector bank.
  • Conceived the Idea, defined the problem & designed the solution. The Idea was selected at the national level pitching competition to be a part of In-house - Axis bank accelerator.
  • Established the company and team of five employees.
  • Led Product, Design, sales and investment raising for the company.
  • Released the beta version with the bank customers.
AI/MLUser ExperienceProduct ManagementDesignProduct DesignUser Experience Design

Docsapp

Product Designer | Contract

May 2015Dec 2015 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Docsapp is a mobile app that connects patients with doctors through chat or calls on-the-go without any geographical constraints. It provides a cost-effective solution for primary healthcare. Docsapp has treated more than a million patients with over one thousand doctors on-boarded.
  • I was commissioned to design the entire service & Ux which includes an app for both patient & doctor. It was a great experience in designing the conversational interfaces.
User ExperienceMobile ApplicationsService DesignUser Experience Design

Mobmerry

Co-Founder, Product & UX Owner

Sep 2014Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Mobmerry is an IOT based Offline to Online technology platform that bridges the gap between online and brick and mortar stores, using discovery/marketing channels at scale, helping consumers discover lifestyle products in their city & around them.
  • Co-founded the company with another serial entrepreneur - Krishna prasad, Director at Interaction one, A design & development agency.
  • Conceived and designed the idea into product, launched the beta version in bangalore.
  • Led the product & UX team to develop product across web and mobile platforms.
User ExperienceProduct DesignMobile ApplicationsUser Experience Design

Tribune media

Lead User Experience Designer

Apr 2014Aug 2014 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Tribune Media is a US based broadcasting & publishing company, joining Tribune was the extension of works at Shufflr. I was leading the Ux effort, worked on UGC/ VOD product.
User ExperienceDesignUser Experience Design

Althea systems

Lead User Experience Designer

Oct 2011Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Shufflr- An Intel Capital-backed startup, It's an online video discovery platform for Online videos, Movies & TV shows and a Social TV / EPG guide.
  • I joined Shufflr as a UX designer and later was appointed as lead. I was leading the team of four designers and was responsible for designing the consumer apps for the entire range of products. Over the years the shufflr user base grew to 6 million plus users.
User ExperienceDesignUser Experience Design

Microsoft

User Experience Design - Apprenticeship

Jan 2011Aug 2011 · 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • I joined Microsoft after the campus recruitment from my D-school, during my apprenticeship there I designed an app development paradigm for Office 365, which is a Microsoft Office collaborative and productivity tool delivered through the cloud. The paradigm consists of a portal which empowers developers to develop applications for Office 365. The development of apps was to support the product ecology of the same.
User ExperienceDesignUser Experience Design

Vishal retail ltd

SRM Executive

May 2008Mar 2009 · 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Was responsible for Vendor management for apparels, buying & Implementing SAP-SRM module.

Arvind brands

Apprenticeship

Jan 2008May 2008 · 4 mos

  • A project of development of quality manual and interface design for quality management software and product library.

Education

National Institute of Design

Master's degree — Human Computer Interaction

Jan 2009Jan 2011

National Institute of Fashion Technology India

Bftech — Fashion and Information technology

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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