Lakshmanan Palani Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Olympus Stack• Lead the design of the stack of products• Consumers of the platform were banking & fintech executives • Designed the branding, architecture & visual language of the product• Collaborated with business and product team to ship phase 1• Mentored one designer in the teamDesign System• Collaborated with the design system team to fix issues & gaps in components• Helped them finalize color palette & come up with an organization structure• The design system was used bby 8 designers in the team across 16 products.Hiring• Helped the team hire designers for Level 1,2 and 3. • Regular member of the interview panel

Bengaluru Area, India

Banking Stack | Phase 1• Was one of the initial members of a small 3 member design team for banking stack• Collaborated closely with product and business and built initial wireframes, vision, visuals & pitches• Showcased in "Democratising banking" event in 2020 which was extremely successful and won clients for business• Worked directly with business heads to enable zeta's banking solutions for international clientsOlympus Stack• Collaborated with PMs to build the base architecture and features for the consumer-facing marketplace of banking products• Planned the timeline and managed 1 designer for an internal tool to track expenditure of services• Fixed issues in an existing SLO product which went on to be showcased in business pitchesControl Center• Simplified info-heavy flows to suit the users of the product• Introduced new interaction patterns which were adopted across productsFinance Center• Worked closely with the devs to enable accounting platforms for banks by understanding and improving their workflows• Improved readability and simplified navigation for the productACS Consumer Side• Designed end to end templates in 3 different visual languages• The product's templates were adopted by 12+ banks & fintech• Made customizations based on bank's requirementsApplication Center• Worked closely with the head of engg to build the platform which was hosting SDKs• Commandeered 5+ iterations of the product over the span of 2 years• Created a new review system to make discussions with devs easier which was evangelized after its soaring success.Design System• Worked closely with the design system manager & devs to build a cohesive design system that could be extended to 36 different products of zeta• Setup the initial components and interaction patterns for the team• Worked on documentation of components and patterns for easier adoption by the team in futureHiring• Regular member of interview panelist, conducted 20+ interviews in 2 years.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Zeta Express- Redesigned Zeta Express version 4.0, Cafeteria Application for corporates. The overall application saw an increase in the number of transactions by 36%. We also observed an overall 17.38% increase of new users using the platform.

India

Founded in 2015, Dopamine is a decentralized organization where individual contributors come together for projects based on their expertise. I have been managing the organization and got the opportunity to work with clients from different walks of life to produce outputs ranging from product design, branding to animation & film productions. We have designed so far:- 30+ digital products - apps, websites, games.- 20+ branding identities across domains- Music & Lyric videos for artists & films- Concept & Art direction for fashion brandsFew companies we have worked with:- Eduzo- Nissan - Agnikul- Athena Infonomics- Pramod Films- Yaazhi Films- Miracle Movies- XR Labs- OroCorp- Pencil & Monk- Radiant Solutions- Zerofence

Germany

I helped set up their primary design system & worked with the team in researching and creating their MR Assist product across devices - Mobile, Web, Hololens, Oculus VR - Which connects technicians with experts in industries.

Chennai Area, India

Chennai Area, India

Soon after my architecture internship, i joined Artlab in Chennai. A multi-faceted design studio, which involves branding, graphic design, illustration, spatial design, wall art, and architecture.I had the opportunity to work on 8 different projects ranging from product branding to architectural on-site work.

Chennai Area, India

I was accountable for developing and drafting architectural drawings and presentation for 4 different Architectural projects in India. Worked closely with the principle Architect Sathish in my 6-month Internship.I had other responsibilities such as branding , designing collaterals and project photoshoots.

Master Of Human-Computer Interaction Design, Design

Bachelor Of Architecture - Barch, Design & Architecture, Top 1% In Architectural Design

Activities and Societies: Design Head For Events & Culturals