Ganesan Arjunan

UX Architect
Bangalore, Karnataka - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Ganesan-Arjunan/21526b4fd64a6a6c
Versatile and highly motivated UX designer with 11+ years of experience on end-to-end design solution.
In-depth experienced in both enterprise and customer focused web and mobile applications and products by
user centered design.
Proven experience in User Centered Design and high quality deliverables for usability research, design
strategy, personas, user scenarios, information architecture, flow map, low & high fidelity prototype, UI/UX
style guide, UI/UX review checklist, and usability testing.
Experienced in contact usability studies, brainstorming, card sorting, focus group, and heuristic evaluation
to provide insightful discovery.
Expert on rapid prototyping with technical platform/framework considerations.
Translated stakeholder objectives and business requirements into conceptual and visual solutions.
Experienced in agile and lean UX methodologies.
Designed and presented use case scenarios, interactions models, and design concepts.
Experienced in world class responsive web design, mobile apps design (iOS/Android/BlackBerry), patterns
design and market trend design.
Delivered UX/UI Guidelines & review checklist and ensured the accuracy to meet the way created design.
Experienced in Axure RP, Adobe Photoshop and documentation tools.
Work closely with stakeholder, sales & analytics team, designer, copywriter, developer and tester.
Experienced in visual design, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript and Flash

WORK EXPERIENCE

UX Architect
Digi Telecommunication - October 2015 to April 2016
Requirement gathering and design review workshops with stakeholders including design strategy, personas,
user scenarios, information architecture, flow map, low & high fidelity prototype, and usability testing.
Evaluating app UX pitfalls to stand for user centered experience norms via - expert reviews and heuristic
evaluation.
Conducting, brainstorming, usability studies, card sorting, focusing group with stakeholder and team.
Designing information architecture, mind map, task / user flow map.
Creating all the design elements of low to high fidelity prototypes in Axure.
Insisting consistency user experience across (mobile apps and web experience responsive design) product
lifecycle.

 Presenting strategic ideas and conceptual design to stakeholders.

Providing end-to-end design solution to visual designers and reviewing visual design
Creating UX/UI guidelines to ensuring the accuracy of design.
Working with multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams, kick-off meetings and scrum meetings in order to
meet the needs and provide innovation solutions.
Point of contact in driving product development through translation of business requirements, reviewing user
needs, developing development strategies, risk/challenges assessment and ensuring compliance to delivery
deadlines.
Instrumental in usability best practices testing for UI/UX.
Providing end-to-end user conversion design solution for marketing & sales (Email campaign).
Part of pre-sales activities, have created and owned UI/Usability solutions for 'Request for Proposals'.
Conducted due diligence studies to identify and showcase core issues in Digi web sites and mobile apps with
regards to branding, usability, accessibility, navigation, interaction, content and presentation.
Responsible for new business acquisition and successful client relations.

Solution Architect
Tech Mahindra - Bangalore, Karnataka - April 2015 to September 2015
Providing all aspects of user experience solution for various domains.
Requirement gathering and design review workshops with stakeholders including design strategy, personas,
user scenarios, information architecture, flow map, low & high fidelity prototype, and usability testing.
Conducting, brainstorming, usability studies, card sorting, focusing group with stakeholder and team.
Designing information architecture, mind map, task / user flow map.
Creating all the design elements of low to high fidelity prototypes in Axure.
Insisting consistency user experience across (mobile apps and web experience responsive design) product
lifecycle.
Presenting strategic ideas and conceptual design to stakeholders.
Providing end-to-end design solution to visual designers and reviewing visual design
Creating UX/UI guidelines to ensuring the accuracy of design.
Working with multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams, kick-off meetings and scrum meetings in order to
meet the needs and provide innovation solutions.
Point of contact in driving product development through translation of business requirements, reviewing user
needs, developing development strategies, risk/challenges assessment and ensuring compliance to delivery
deadlines.
Instrumental in usability best practices testing for UI/UX.
Evaluating app UX pitfalls to stand for user centered experience norms via - expert reviews and heuristic
evaluation.
Part of pre-sales activities, have created and owned UI/Usability solutions for 'Request for Proposals'.
Conducted due diligence studies to identify and showcase core issues in web sites and mobile apps with
regards to branding, usability, accessibility, navigation, interaction, content and presentation.

UX Manager
Symphony Teleca - Bangalore, Karnataka - August 2013 to April 2015
Providing all aspects of user experience solution for various domains.
Requirement gathering and design review workshops with stakeholders including design strategy, personas,
user scenarios, information architecture, flow map, low & high fidelity prototype, and usability testing.
Conducting, brainstorming, usability studies, card sorting, focusing group with stakeholder and team.
Designing information architecture, mind map, task / user flow map.
Creating all the design elements of low to high fidelity prototypes in Axure.

 Insisting consistency user experience across (mobile apps and web experience responsive design) product
lifecycle.
Presenting strategic ideas and conceptual design to stakeholders.
Providing end-to-end design solution to visual designers and reviewing visual design
Creating UX/UI guidelines to ensuring the accuracy of design.
Working with multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams, kick-off meetings and scrum meetings in order to
meet the needs and provide innovation solutions.
Point of contact in driving product development through translation of business requirements, reviewing user
needs, developing development strategies, risk/challenges assessment and ensuring compliance to delivery
deadlines.
Instrumental in usability best practices testing for UI/UX.
Evaluating app UX pitfalls to stand for user centered experience norms via - expert reviews and heuristic
evaluation.
Part of pre-sales activities, have created and owned UI/Usability solutions for 'Request for Proposals'.
Conducted due diligence studies to identify and showcase core issues in web sites and mobile apps with
regards to branding, usability, accessibility, navigation, interaction, content and presentation.

Member Technical Staff

Ness Technologies - Bangalore, Karnataka - May 2012 to August 2013
Providing key design suggestions to improve the user experience of Perform media product apps and
instrumental in the ideation and conceptualization and implementation.
Analyzing the business and user needs.
Worked with multi-disciplinary, cross-functional teams, product owners (UK team), design teams (UK team)
and development team (Bangalore) for requirements & design reviews, kick-off meetings and scrum meetings
in order to meet client needs and provide innovation solutions.
Requirement gathering and design review workshops with stakeholders including design strategy, personas,
user scenarios, information architecture, flow map, low & high fidelity prototype, UI/UX style guide, and usability
testing.
Creating consistency mobile design for iOS, Android and BlackBerry touch and non-touch.
Evaluated app UX pitfalls to stand for user centered experience norms via - expert reviews, heuristic
evaluation, personas, scenarios and task flow analysis.
Brainstorming, conducting usability studies with stakeholder and team.
Created all the design elements of low and high fidelity prototypes in Photoshop.
Insisting consistency user experience across all platforms (iOS, Android & BlackBerry) product lifecycle.
Instrumental in usability best practices testing for UI/UX.

Sr. UI Designer
Zylog Systems Ltd - Chennai, Tamil Nadu - February 2010 to May 2012
Leading the design experience for product in collaborating with various teams (iOS, Android, BlackBerry
Mobile, SharePoint, MS CRM, .Net and Java).
Bringing up awareness and working closely with the Product Team to ensure user centered design processes.
Conducting, brainstorming, usability studies, card sorting, focusing group with stakeholder and team.
Part of pre-sales activities, have created and owned UI/Usability solutions for 'Request for Proposals'.
Conducted due diligence studies to identify and showcase core issues in the client sites with regards to
accessibility, navigation, interaction, content and presentation.
Evaluated web applications for UX pitfalls, non-conformance to web standards and accessibility norms via
- expert reviews, heuristic evaluation.
Created low fidelity paper prototypes and wireframes. Translated the wireframes into Photoshop (PS) layouts
and then converted PS designs into high-fidelity interactive prototypes (HTML)

 Was responsible for maintenance of the usability best practices/checklists.

Web/Graphics Designer
Vembu Technologies Pvt Ltd - Chennai, Tamil Nadu - August 2009 to February 2010
Created low fidelity paper prototypes and wireframes. Translated the wireframes into Photoshop (PS) layouts
and then converted PS designs into high-fidelity interactive prototypes (HTML).
Created highly usable web design solutions with focus on user experience and compliance to standards.
Was responsible for designing & maintain the corporate website, intranet and measurement matrices
application.
Product demos, visual designs, branding material and interactive Flash animations interfacing.

Web Designer
Ezee4u.com - Indhu Priya Advertising - Chennai, Tamil Nadu - September 2004 to July 2009
Interacting with the clients to facilitate smooth communication to understand and analyze the business
requirement and identify appropriate solutions for the Client.
Was responsible for graphic design, visualizing, reviewing and conceptualization.
Planned and designed web designs with attention given to the multi-lingual websites.
Created low fidelity paper prototypes and wireframes. Translated the wireframes into Photoshop (PS) layouts
and then converted PS designs into high-fidelity interactive prototypes (HTML).
Was responsible for designing & maintain the corporate web site and usability best practices testing/
checklists.
Provision of quality assurance on creative deliverables.
Building and maintaining team rapport with managing director.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Computer Application in User Centred Analysis and Conceptual Design

Madurai Kamaraj University - Madurai, Tamil Nadu
2010

LINKS
http://www.behance.net/GanesanArjunan:

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SKILLS & EXPERTISE
Prototyping Tools: Paper prototype, Axure and Photoshop
Design Languages: Responsive UI, Flat UI and Card design
Mobile Platforms: iOS, Android and BlackBerry
Web Technologies: HTML, CSS and jQuery
UT Methodologies: Prototype testing, formative usability testing, and data gathering
and analysis

Operating Systems: Windows and Mac