Akshay Manjunath Email & Phone Number

Rogers, Ar, Us

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Remote, Us

• Mentored over 40+ aspiring UX/UI/product designers from various backgrounds, helping them transition into design and seek their first roles.• Led 1-on-1 virtual sessions with students through their journey, discussing work, answering questions, and offering technical guidance.• Reviewed projects including UX design, research, wireframes, and Figma prototypes.• Guided portfolio development and personal storytelling.• Trained students in User Experience Design and UX Research.• Used Design Thinking to help students navigate job-seeking, build on strengths, and address weaknesses.• Facilitated workshops, critiques, and portfolio development.

Savannah, Ga, Us

• Led one-on-one virtual sessions with SCAD students, guiding them through their journey by discussing their work, answering questions, and providing technical support.• Conducted portfolio reviews, providing constructive feedback and guidance to aspiring • Guided academic projects to look with industry perspective, linking college work to practical applications.• Helped set realistic short-term and long-term career goals, developing action plans and tracking progress.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Championed user experience research and design for foundational platform serving various departments across the organization by setting strategic direction for our products and service which extend across a manifold of users, geographies, devices, products, and services for Ford’s financial suite of products. Influenced design direction and development decisions through user research to improve the user experience over 15 internal and external products impacting Ford customers across the USA, Canada, Europe, China, and India. Collaborated with cross-functional teams including businesses, engineering, Products, and user experience to identify research objectives and plan user research activities.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Worked on the entire process from inspiration and research to user journey map and service blueprint to unearthed systems-level patterns and frameworks in order to redefine how customers buy and pay for various products and services across various verticals of Ford. Successfully launched, tested, designed, and ideated on a various suite of products to transforming how we enable our customers to own, lease, and renew their vehicles, by which we are ultimately transforming the way people access and interact with transportation on a global scale. Collaborated on designing, running, and testing new solutions through experiments and prototypes at varying levels of fidelity, click-through prototypes, animation, and motion design to functional prototypes and build-ready applications.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Winner in RIT Tiger tank for making a cost-effective solution for air filtration system during the time of Covid need.

Savannah, Ga, Us

Participated in a 48-hour virtual challenge hosted by SCADpro to present creative solutions for the Work From Home (WFH) experience

Cultivated close, professional conversations with various product owners to engage them in developing a shared and refined vision of the desired application. Led the process of defining the user experience which met the product owners' objectives.Facilitated collaboration and communication across different design and development teams which ensured that we could maintain a high velocity to meet our deliverables. This cross-functional team collaboration was carried out from conceptualization to a working prototype, within an Agile/Scrum environment.Oversaw the setting of clear and concise UX guidelines, information architecture, personas, and user journeys. Managed the creation of project assets and artifacts while aiding development teams in debugging to ensure bar-raising quality to the end product.Implemented various designs across the web, mobile, VR, and kiosk platforms that engaged and assisted customers shopping at retail stores across our parent company's brands.

Successfully designed and implemented a new site look and style for notable web presence.Worked directly with the client to establish project scope, interaction guidelines, and project timelines.Provided competitive market analysis on the e-commerce site and proposed suggestions to the design and available functionality.Developed user-interface design and navigation for websites improving usability and resulted in increased traffic.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

SCAD Collaboration project where I conduct research and data analysis from participatory research, one-on-one interviews, Market research to identify the problem areas and designed solutions to enhance the user experience.Provided design recommendations to clients in the form of a research guide and developed multiple 3D Modeling solutions out of which 2 designs were later manufactured by Walmart for the 2018 Firepit category.

Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, In

Launched and deployed Webmandi an e-commerce online grocery platform to order groceries from the comfort of their homes.Influenced design and development decisions to improve the user experience on over 18 internal and external products impacting an audience of nearly 600,000 customers across India.Developed persona, user journeys, storyboards, Information architecture, flowcharts, wireframing and interactive prototypes from initial research of user needs, business goals and conducted usability testing to design intuitive experiences for both web and mobile applications.

Master'S Degree, Design Management

Master'S Degree, Industrial And Product Design

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering

Pre University

High School