Karthikeyan Dhanasekaran Email & Phone Number

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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

⭐ Independently developed the tool called Mercury Design System to develop snaps product ecosystem, focusing on consistency, scalability, and usability with an accessibility-first approach.⭐ Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and marketing, to make strategic design decisions, ensuring seamless product development and delivery.Innovated and implemented new tools and ideas within the design ecosystem, supporting both internal and external stakeholders to consistently deliver successful product solutions.⭐ Led the design and delivery of the entire merchant experience across various platforms.⭐ Developed a mental model for Merchant Portal 3.0, aimed at reducing training time, increasing task completion efficiency, and boosting adoption rates.⭐ Participated in design reviews to share insights and gather feedback.⭐ Collaborated with the research team to develop test scripts and actively participated in user testing.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

⭐ Champion and architect our Snap-owned design system with a cutting-edge accessibility-first approach, ensuring unparalleled consistency, scalability, and usability across our entire product ecosystem.⭐ Forge dynamic partnerships with engineering, product, and marketing teams to make strategic design decisions that drive flawless product development and delivery.⭐ Pioneer and integrate innovative tools and methodologies into our design ecosystem, enhancing support for internal and external stakeholders and setting new standards for successful, accessible product solutions.⭐ Spearhead the creation of an inclusive merchant experience that drives growth and resonates across all platforms.⭐ Leverage growth-driven insights to continuously evolve and scale our design strategies, optimizing for both user engagement and business impact.Achievements Received: 🏆 MVP Award 🏆 Golden Wrench Award

United States

As a UX design mentor, I have guided aspiring designers in developing user-centered solutions, emphasizing sustainable design practices, building effective design systems, and resolving team conflicts. With extensive hands-on experience in cross-functional collaboration, I provide practical insights and personalized feedback, helping mentees create cohesive and impactful user experiences while fostering their professional growth.

United States

Worldwide

Helping students and non design professionals into UX Design career transformation through training and coaching 1-1

United States

Houston, Texas, United States

Design Leader for the PrimeroEdge product development, responsible for all Experience Strategy that includes user research, visual, interaction & accessibility(ADA). Driving customer voice in strategic decision-making with senior leaders to align customer and business outcomes.Leading a small team of 10 designers, establishing and maintaining a creative culture in a happy, healthy environment. I have driven design transformation through showcasing the value of design resulting from business-to-scale designs.Lead the overall design direction for user research, visual, interaction & accessibility ADA while applying industry trends appropriately and provoking the design world with new ways to simplify the complexAlso lead a team of designers and UI component developers that deliver by applying industry-leading research and rapid prototyping that uncovers deep and actionable insights, which define the ideal state for our products. Apply data-driven design in order to provide our customers with both control and a touch of effortless magic, so they are confident in their day-to-day tasks and the results.Product Owner for UI/Story Book Design System Team

Houston, Texas, United States

➢ Responsible for Primeroedge 2.0 UX Re-design for all their 12+ products suites➢ Collaborate with product team & front-end development team to align the product requirements to satisfy business goal vs. user needs.➢ Performing user research, user interviews, surveys.➢ Simplifying the user's journey & task flows➢ Creating Wireframes, Lo- Hi fidelity mockups & Detailed Interaction designs➢ Responsible to keep updating the UI/UX interaction pattern library➢ Create designs adhering to ADA, SEC 508 & WCAG compliance

San Francisco Bay Area

Working on few products Mede Works & MedeCreate.Collaborate with Product managers & Engineering teams, stakeholders & users to focus on aligning the new product features with business vs user needs by performing research techniques & usability testing. Simplifying the user's journey & user task flows.Create wireframes & Interactive prototypes using Axure RPProvide peer reviews within the team to provide feedbacks & design critiques.Responsible to keep updating the UI/UX interaction pattern library.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

UX architect working on the IPortal (flagship product) of IFC. Involved in defining process, creating UX patterns, style guides, information architecture, task flows.Conduct user testing with the business users. Single point of contact for all the Loan modules UX.

- Lead the UX COE for HCL's applications divisions unit -However it includes defining UX strategy, Innovative design solutions for the RFP, Proof of concepts, user research, Information Architecture, Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping.-Helping the recruitment team in the hiring process for L1 & L2 approvals.- Conducting design workshops to define problems & solutions in our customer places- Evangelizing UX across the business unit - Participating in RFP , RFI Proposals & Defence presentations.

Mountain View

o Heading the UX Design Teamo Bringing up awareness and working closely with the Team to ensure user centered design processes.o Responsible for improving overall user experience across projects and technologies like Web, Mobility, Smart Devices, Wearables, Cloud Etc..o Evangelizing user experience across the company through training sessions.o Develop usability protocols; enhance usability methodologies and templates for general company use.o Establish UE Roadmap to manage and allocate UE Issues to future releases (including enhancement releases and/or maintenance releases)o Provide supervision and coaching to 2 client UE team membersCreating Wireframes & functional prototypes.

UX Product Owner for TeamForge.Ensure consistency of User Experience across Product lifecycle.Communicate with creative and technical teams to ensure that the most efficient user experience is created in order to meet client needs and provide innovative solutions.Act as a point of expertise for user experience design questions, including providing expertise on appropriate user research techniques and best practice user-centred design.Develop IA documentation, such as wireframes, sitemaps and clickable prototypes (Photoshop, Balasamiq, PPT ) Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team (from design, development, content, marketing and management.Work with developers to brainstorm and refine user experience prior to development to maximize ease-of-use and promote a positive user experience.Writing user stories for UI/ UeX Improvements to make the tool more intuitive & improve ROI.Performing Competitive Analysis.Organizing Planning / Iteration review Meetings for UX scrum team.

Chennai

Leading the Design Experience for Product in collaborating with various User Experience Design teams to ensure consistency of User Experience across Product lifecycle.Bringing up awareness and working closely with the Product Team to ensure user centered design processes.Proactively leading user research, by either leveraging Global Research or initiating. Synthesizing and evangelizing findings.Develop usability protocols; enhance usability methodologies and templates for general company use.

Designed user interfaces for web and Windows Pocket PC applications, ensuring a seamless user experience across platforms.Designed the Pocket Lifestyle Manager Utility Tool, focusing on intuitive and efficient user workflows.Developed an innovative solution for Corporation Bank, enabling mobile applications in rural areas with instant passport photograph integration via a banking app.Collaborated with the presales team to create prototypes for customer demos, enhancing proposal presentations and client engagement.Skilled in producing high-fidelity and low-fidelity prototypes, tailoring designs to project needs and user requirements.Experienced in website design, SEO strategies, and print work, contributing to a cohesive and impactful brand presence.

Chennai Area, India

Websites designing, Creating Presentations & Collaterals

Human Factors Certfication, In Usability

Bca, Computer Application

Ms In Human Factors & Psychology