India

Graphic Design

UI/ Visual Design

Industrial Design

Game Design

Branding and Identity Design

Multimedia Design

Design Operations

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Branding

Interaction Design

UX Testing

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NIFT, National Institute of Fashion Technology, PGP

Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting)

B.Sc. (Hones)

Vinod Kumar

Part Head - UXD

Communication

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Team player

Presentation skills

Customer service

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

2D Animation

Accessibility

UserTesting

Zeplin

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe XD

Axure

Balsamiq

ChatGPT

Figma

InVision

Jira

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe After Effects

Confluence

Sketch

Collaboration

Organisation skills

Conflict resolution

Brand strategy

Content creation

Data visualisation

Database management

Deal strategy

Design systems

Human computer interaction

Illustration

Information architecture

Influencer marketing

LinkedIn writing

Budget management

Machine learning

Market research

Marketing strategy

Unit Testing

Video editing

User research

Usability Testing

Typography

Tone consistency

Relationship management

Quantitative research

Prototyping

Product roadmap

Product strategy

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

• Leading the UX/UI verticals at SAMSUNG SDS, India.
• Mentoring a team of 40+ UX/UI professionals.
• Spearheading UX strategy for the organization.
• Responsible for KPI for the vertical. Hiring and Mentoring.
• Scaling the UX vertical by building trust and credibility with the clients.
• Set up the UCD/Lean processes for UX for quality deliverables.
• Strategic leadership to the team, offering a continuous improvement of the processes and an outlook to be the best.

•	Defining UX-UI strategies and adhering to best practices for cloud-based Products.
•	Designing various products under Global Product Management team with complete focus on User Xperience and Customer Xperience.
•	Day to day engagement with product design/development team and build partnerships.
•	Associate with product design to Fortune 500 customers like Boeing, Compucom, Marsh, Dell, etc.

• Seek a balance of hands-on UX management, and leadership responsibilities that involve executing challenging projects with a constant responsibility for quality and performance.
• Ability to match business requirements with functional requirements to design interactions, navigation systems, and highly relevant end-user experiences.

**Follow (UCD) User-Centered Design approach:
• Ideation: User/Business Goal, Personas, User flow, Scenarios. 
• Discovery: User Analysis, Gap Analysis, Competitive Analysis, Heuristic evaluation.
• Conceptualization: BVI Design Principles, Navigation System, Interaction Design.
• Designing: Hi-Fi Wireframes, Interactive Prototypes, Moodboards, Mobile/Web app design, iOS/Android UI design.

• Defined UX Design strategy for the various software products for better business outcomes.
• Managed 25+ Team of Resource, Experience Design Projects, Complex Engineering.
• Delivered Innovative Global Product solutions for Enterprises Mobility, Technology Consulting, and IT Outsourcing.

• Managed globally for more than 10+ apps covering mobile apps, website applications, web portals, mobile icons, commercial digital signage...
• Research: Stakeholders/User interviews, User Analysis, Competitive analysis.
• Concept: Design principles, Sketches, Wireframes, Sitemaps, Navigation, Interaction Design.
• Design: Interactive Prototypes, Style guide, Mobile/Web Visual Design, iOS/Android GUI design. 
• Tools: Sketch, InVision, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Axure RP, Microsoft Suite.

Global Projects: Baylor Scott & White Mobile App, Designed for Doctors/Nurses, Dallas Texas (USA). 
• Responsible for Product Design/Development i.e. Strategy, Concepts, and Design.
• Providing UX/UI Design solution encompassed across technology Platforms- iOS & Android.

Global Project: Mobistar (Orange Mobile), Brussels (Belgium).
• Responsible for Product Design/Development i.e. strategy, concepts, and Design. 
• Providing UX Design consultancy for Mobile applications (iOS and Android).

Global Projects: Cisco (UK), AT&T (USA), Doha Bank (UAE), Omantel, (UAE), Bell (Canada), Visy (Australia), Victoria Police (Canada), Boeing (USA), etc.
• Responsible for Creative Strategy, Concept, and Design.
• Handle Hybrid / Native / Responsive Mobile Apps Visual Design.

Domestic Projects: Reliance, Idea, SBI, Nissan, Club Mahindra.
• Responsible for creative strategy, concepts, and Art Direction.
• Handle Hybrid / Native / Responsive Mobile Apps Visual Design.

Domestic Projects: MadeEasy, Akash, FITJEE, Drona, etc.
• Responsible for all creative development i.e. strategy, concepts and Creative Direction. 
• iOS / Android / Windows platform based UI Designing.
• Handling Responsive Native / Mobile / Tablet App Design.

Global Projects: Dominos (US), Super Market (US), etc.
• Conceptualizing GUI Design in the online application domain.
• Managed full service in the Web-based application domain. 
• Visualization & designing various User Interfaces for US-based supply chain companies.
• Created various prototype applications for the supply chain Domain.

Global Projects: Mindef (E-learning Course Designing), Ministry of Defence Singapore. 
NIIT Multimedia/3D Courses Development. 
• Responsible for creative strategy, concepts and art direction to all clients.
• Managed full service in the E-Learning design domain.
• Responsible for designing an E-Learning based Graphics for education and health care domain.
• Managed and mentored a diverse Team of 2D & 3D, flash designers.

Startup: Golf Simulator (virtual reality) & software packages.

Projects: HSBC (Hong Kong) Callaway, (UK), Rebook (UK), etc.
• Started my career as a UI/UX Designer.
• Associate with the creative team worked for application launch.
• Designed GUI for Virtual Reality based Golf Simulator on standalone based application.
• Independently handled GUI Designing in various segments: hotel, sports, and health club product.

Vinod Kumar🇮🇳