Karen Manhas — UX Designer
👋🏼 Ahoy there, I’m Karen! A people person who enjoys collaboration and being a feedback advocate. I’m the type of UX Designer who prefers to solve for root causes, not symptoms as well as creating impactful, optimised experiences through research, design and testing. With a background in mechanical engineering, I approach design with a data driven mindset, focused on solving root causes and driving measurable results. I have a wide range of experience working across various industries, such as telecommunications, pharmaceuticals & biotechnology, media & entertainment, energy, and currently in retail (groceries). Key highlights: → Ranked Top Performer at Vodafone, delivering impactful UX designs that drove key product improvements. → Recognised regularly for teamwork and collaborative skills at GSK. → Improved the SUS score for an internal timesheet tool at GSK by streamlining complex workflows, and enhancing usability. → Enhanced reporting tools at GSK that empowered programme managers to make better, data-driven decisions for multi-million pound pharmaceutical portfolios. → Led design initiatives at Eurosport such as increasing app downloads and creating foundational features like Eurosport Stories and Eurosport Moments, driving cross-platform user engagement. → Award-winning UX design templates on Miroverse, used over 1,800+ times. Currently at Tesco, working in Enterprise UX, focusing on improving internal processes & routines for optimisation, efficiency and compliance, benefiting our 350,000 store colleagues and 4,000 office colleagues. In my spare time, I post about design on LinkedIn, help organise in-person events for Ladies that UX London, (used to) run the book club at Product Design Ladies, create UX Design templates on Miroverse and mentor students & young adults at Stemettes. You can always find me at a design event in London. 🏃🏽♀️ A regular 10k runner, with a growing interest in half marathons.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX Designer with experience across Retail, Pharmaceuticals, and Media industries.
Experience: 7 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- User Experience Design (ued)
- Interaction Design
- Ux Research
- Stakeholder Management
Career Highlights
- Top Performer at Vodafone for impactful UX designs.
- Improved usability of internal tools at GSK.
- Led design initiatives driving user engagement at Eurosport.
Work Experience
Tesco
Senior UX Designer (Enterprise UX) (1 yr 3 mos)
UX Designer (Enterprise UX) (1 yr)
Warner Bros. Discovery
UX Designer (4 mos)
Kaluza
UX Designer (Enterprise UX) (1 yr 5 mos)
GSK
Product Designer (Enterprise UX) (1 yr)
Vodafone
UX Designer, Product Specification Database (Enterprise UX) (4 mos)
UX Designer, Welcome to Vodafone app (graduate project) (6 mos)
Vodafone Business Platform and Solutions - Service Design, Vodafone Business IT (10 mos)
Vodafone Global Cyber Security, Scrum Master, Delivery (5 mos)
Vodafone Business Platform and Solutions - IT Architect, Internet of Things (6 mos)
Chromalloy
Project Engineer - Summer Internship (2 mos)
EDF Energy
Project Engineer - Industrial Placement (11 mos)
Education
Master of Engineering at City St George’s, University of London