Mohith Kanakula Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pune Area, India

Pune Area, India

I'm the go-to person for the customer. I hear about their needs and strategize the design approach for impeccable user experience. I define what a great experience is and lead teams together to create a compelling vision for our customers.I'm passionate about UX design and being meticulous about the details is what I really am. I foster a spirit of teamwork to appreciate diversity and work effectively together to succeed.I help staff right talent including on-boarding, mentoring and providing career development planning. I have demonstrated the ability to lead and develop the department and its members through consciously creating a design culture that is consistent with the overall organization's values and principles. I provided direction to the team, delegate responsibility and provide regular feedback on goals.

Pune Area, India

My primary responsibility was to lend expertise in defining a design strategy for enterprise solutions and various other pre-sales & up-selling activities. I have also lead design & development teams to ensure the deliverables meet usability standards.Have mentored the team and provided guidance in devising design approach for various small and large scale enterprise solutions. Conducted formal/informal knowledge sharing sessions with individuals/team on how to design for enterprise and different aspects to keep in mind while creating components such as Visualizations & Data Grids that are crucial for any enterprise solution.

Pune Area, India

I have defined the overall design strategy for various enterprise products. Conducted stakeholder interviews, brainstorming sessions & workshops to help identify business needs & goals and chart product roadmap that aligns with the development strategy of the customer.Involved stakeholders and users at various stages of design to conceptualize the Information Architecture and Navigation Model for a seamless interaction with various modules of the application.Lead a team of designers to visualize lo-hi fidelity wireframes with clickable prototypes to conduct concept testing with end users and gather valuable insights that help define the current and future releases of the product. Conduct various review sessions with the development team to ensure the envisioned design is effectively translated.

Pune Area, India

I have worked in an agile and fast-paced work environments to conceptualize product ideas based on requirement documents and build high fidelity wireframes and visual designs for web and mobile platforms.Been a key team player in help define the user needs and business goals. Collaborated with customers to chart the product roadmap and build use case backlog to focus for Day 1 release. Helped to establish a scalable and modular information architecture and navigation model to accommodate later feature extensions.

Pune Area, India

I have played a role of a business analyst to analyze existing systems and understand new needs of the business and document a use case backlog which could be referred by the design and development teams.I also defined the Information Architecture for the product and model Navigation flows to enable seamless user interactions. Guide design team during conceptualization, help create wireframes for identified use cases and supervise visual designs to ensure they met the usability standards.Closely collaborated with the development team to ensure effective translation of design. Also, worked with pre-sales teams in building proposals and build quick proof of concepts.

Pune Area, India

As part of the design team, I have collaborated with the fellow designers to effectively translate the research insights into product use cases. Performed task analysis to optimize workflows and create concepts through rapid prototyping to validate with customers.Designed low-high fidelity wireframes to articulate ideas, promote usability and deliver technically feasible designs that are well received by the audience.

Pune Area, India

I have carried out responsibilities primarily as a Researcher to help prepare qualitative and quantitative research protocols, conduct expert reviews, analyze data and present insights that uncover user needs & desires, challenges and new business opportunities to enhance the current user experience.Also been instrumental in various pre-sales activities to conduct usability evaluation for various Banking and Insurance portals. Create a proposed solution for the identified usability issues through effective POCs & narratives to influence decision making process.I have also been part of various market research initiatives across India for Pharma & Telecom customers to identify market needs & trends.

Pune Area, India

Was part of User Interaction Design Group (UIDG) and seek mentorship in writing a final diploma research paper Work-related Occupational Hazards in IT and to build an interactive concept application. The application was targeted for the IT professionals and would help them determine the probable hazards & its remedies based on their sitting posture.It was a great opportunity to apply the UCD techniques to identify, define and solve a problem and also to learn the work culture and know what it is to be part of a bigger team driving towards a common goal.I had presented my research paper and its applications at International Ergonomics Conference 2008, Bangalore and was awarded 1st under the Student category.

Graduate Diploma In Communication Design, Specialization In User Experience Design

Activities and Societies: > Awarded 2nd in poster design competition at Pune Design Festival, 2008 > Awarded 1st for student research.

Bachelors In Computer Graphics And Animation, Computer Graphics And Animation

Completed Semester 1 & 2 and sought admission into Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, for Semester 3.