Nikhil Mantri Email & Phone Number

Pune, Mh, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. Leading small design scrum team for Cisco Firewall Management and Security product(s). 2. Work area includes discussion and insight gathering with Product management team(s), Competition study and Analysis, Customer Interviews, Stakeholder Interviews, Information Mapping, Data Analysis and Design, Design Sprint(s), UX Workshop(s), creating Low-fidelity Wireframes, detailing High- fidelity Prototypes, working on basic Illustrations; and Validations with customers and stakeholders (as and when required).3. Key stakeholders are Product management team(s), Development scrum team(s), Technical product expert(s), Research team, QA team, Documentation team and Customer partners team.

Pune Area, India

1. Led our Desktop UX design team supported by development scrum teams to redesign our Enterprise Industry product(s), implementing UX methodologies simplifying complex user workflows.2. Worked as UX Designer for Siemens software product(s) in both Waterfall and Agile development process.3. Key work areas were Quantitative and Qualitative User Research through User Interviews, Surveys, Beta Program(s), Discussion and UX Consulting with Project Owners and Project Managers, discussion with Business Product managers to gather product and business requirements, creation of User Scenarios, Navigation Model and Information Architecture, building low and high-fidelity prototypes, Usability Testing by Contextual Inquiry and Lab Testing, Usability Evaluation through Heuristic Evaluation, usage of Tobii Pro (Eye Tracking) for validations using gaze plots, mouse- click study and heat maps and UI-QC Validations.4. Also worked on creation of UI elements like dialogs, message boxes, ribbon in Visual Studio, Microsoft Blend and checking in to TFS. Helped localization teams across countries on getting the UI localized.5. Created UX standards, guideline documents and conducted trainings that drive Mainstream team’s future product increments.

1. Worked as Product and UX Designer in the in-house design team. 2. Work included creation of all graphic content including logos, imagery and template folios for our Share portals and creation of wireframes and high fidelity mockup(s) of portal page(s) which was forwarded to outsourced development team.

1. Worked as fresher Product designer to handle the product and packaging design for FMCG majors2. Handled Information design and graphic work for our client Suzlon.

Master Of Design, Product Design

B.Arch, Architecture