Manikandan Baluchamy

Head of Design

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India21 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in user experience and interface design across multiple industries.
Strong advocate for cognitive design principles to enhance usability.
Proven track record in improving product design for healthcare and finance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a UX design expert with a focus on healthcare and financial services.

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User Interface DesignUser ExperienceInteraction DesignInformation ArchitectureHeuristic EvaluationUsability EngineeringExperience DesignTask AnalysisHuman Computer InteractionJavaScriptContextual InquiryCognitive ScienceInDesignSketchingProject Estimation

About

Loves making things work for humans ❦ Possesses significant experience in serving the securities, financial, e-commerce, healthcare industries ❦ Keen on utilising time & energy in assisting business owners nail down and solve for root causes than symptoms ❦ Passionate and committed towards helping stakeholders understand the real benefits of experience design ❦ Provides user interface design solutions and conceptual models that avoid cognitive friction even as helping consumers and businesses achieve their goals ❦ Conscientious in assessing what decisions work best for organizations in the long run ❦ Helps technologies & products work pleasurably for humans ❦ Extremely keen on observing, learning human behavior ❦ A strong proponent of design, usability within organizations ❦ Not a short-order cook for design

Experience

21 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

9 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Optum

2 roles

Principal UX Architect

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo · Greater Chennai Area

Lead UX Designer

Jun 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Responsible for enhancing patient care through sensible care management product designs.

Morgan stanley

UX Designer

May 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Employed as a full-time contractor for Morgan Stanley Financial Services Private Limited and designing products for Financial Advisors in the Wealth Management space.

Paypal

UX Designer

Mar 2014 – Nov 2014 · 8 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Employed as a full-time contractor for PayPal India Private Limited

Global analytics

UX Manager

Oct 2013 – Feb 2014 · 4 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Ariba

Interaction Designer

Jan 2013 – Oct 2013 · 9 mos · Bangalore

Worked on projects pertaining to the Ariba Network which connects the suppliers with the buyers and vice versa.

Paypal

2 roles

User Experience Architect

Oct 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Chennai Area

Was responsible for crafting the experiences of introducing credit products funded by Bill Me Later into PayPal's guest & turbo checkout flows for North American consumers. Was also involved in the re-design of features used by Indian consumers & merchants.

UX Designer

Apr 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Employed as a full-time contractor for PayPal. Responsible for crafting usable experiences for PayPal's Credit products and offerings that comprise PayPal's Credit business.

Inautix technologies

Senior Usability Analyst

Jan 2004 – Mar 2009 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Greater Chennai Area

Designed and enhanced Pershing's premier online brokerage platforms namely NetExchange Pro, NetExchange Advisor etc. The product design involved solutions being built for both the Web and Windows platforms.