Ahmed Amanatullah

Current

Senior Graphic Designer at Folio3
Creative Head at Propaganda Machinery
Freelance Graphic / Web / User Experience Designer at Freelance Designer (Self-employed)

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Past

Manager User Experience & Design at PixSense Inc.
Manager User Experience & Design at Folio3 Pvt. Ltd.
Manager User Experience & Design at Clickmarks Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.

Graphic Designer at Clickmarks Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.
Web Designer at Uniops Pvt. Ltd.

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Education

Hamdard University
Government College of Commerce and Economics, Karachi
St. Pauls English High School

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Recommended

9 people have recommended Ahmed

Connections

182 connections

Industry

Internet

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Ahmed Amanatullah’s Summary

Latest Achievements:
• Vodafone Global Services (Incl. Softbank Japan):
- Designed web and device applications’ successful prototypes (MyPhotos & VodaPix) which helped in securing contract with Vodafone keeping their brand guidelines and PixSense technical requirements in consideration.
• Vodafone Germany PersonalAlbum:
- Coordinated with Avenue A RazorFish in implementing their design to PixSense PSP Platform Template System and for use in devices.
• Vodafone Ireland MyPhotos:
- Retrofitted PersonalAlbum design to Vodafone Ireland applications.
• PixSense 3.0:
- Developed new UI based on feedback from product and engineering teams.
- Maintained branding in line with new PixSense identity.
- Pitched new ideas by providing wireframes and mental models for new media sharing application.
- Made style manual for web application.
• PixSense 2.5/2.6:
- Made rebranding applications easier and less time intensive.
- Made location based UI and designed blogging UI named “SupaBlog”
• PixSense Beta:
- Designed the UI and developed pages.
- Contributed to product development as well.
• Paiker (PixSense Chinese brand):
- Designed the Paiker Chinese site UI and developed pages.
- Optimized the page to reduce http requests from around 200 to under 50 request while keeping UI similar to original one.
- Reduced code up to 60%.
• Oi (Device):
- Made device layout prototype for pitch to largest Brazilian carrier.
• Telenor Pakistan (Device):
- Made layout for new Telenor PicShare device application.
• PixSense Identity:
- Developed new and past identities for PixSense and kept or improved standards in maintaining visual identity of PixSense.
• Others:
- Initiated standard compliance and semantic based web designs
- Designed UI for PixSense widget, music application in Flex 2 & device gallery layout for application for Facebook Inc.
- Served all design requirements from US, Pakistani, Chinese and Indian teams.

Ahmed Amanatullah’s Specialties:

branding, identity, web applications, websites, widgets, rich internet applications, mobile, user experience

Ahmed Amanatullah’s Experience

Senior Graphic Designer

Folio3

(Internet industry)

March 2009 — Present (10 months)
Creative Head

Propaganda Machinery

(Design industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Freelance Graphic / Web / User Experience Designer
Freelance Designer (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Freelance Graphic / Web / User Experience Designer with a passion for new media, pursuing a career with a company in need of freelance visual and interaction design professionals with challenging projects. Skilled in major industry standard design tools & problem solving skills.
Manager User Experience & Design

PixSense Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 4 months)
Manager User Experience & Design

Folio3 Pvt. Ltd.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

January 2006 — March 2006 (3 months)

Managing user experience & design
Manager User Experience & Design

Clickmarks Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2005 — December 2005 (6 months)
Graphic Designer

Clickmarks Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2002 — June 2005 (3 years )
Web Designer

Uniops Pvt. Ltd.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 2 months)

Ahmed Amanatullah’s Education

Hamdard University

MBA , Marketing , 2005 — 2008
Government College of Commerce and Economics, Karachi

Bachelor Business Economics , Business Economics , 1996 — 2000
St. Pauls English High School

Matric , Science , 1990 — 1996

Additional Information

Ahmed Amanatullah’s Websites:

Ahmed Amanatullah’s Interests:

design, marketing, user experience, RIA, fishing, architecture, swimming, F1, computer games, blogging, visual design

Ahmed Amanatullah’s Groups:

Net Aid (Subsidiary UN Volunteers),
User Experience Network (UXNet) – Karachi Chapter Ambassador,
Interaction Design Association (IxDA),
Information Architecture Institute,
Designers Who Blog,
Graphic Designers Association of Pakistan (GDAP)