Anubhav Jain
Sr. Interaction Designer at Beta Soft Systems
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Industry
- Design
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Anubhav Jain's Overview
- Current
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- Sr. Interaction Designer at Beta Soft Systems
- Interaction Design Consultant (contract) at Autodesk
- Past
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- Interaction Design Consultant (contract) at Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
- Interaction Design Consultant (contract) at Lybba
- Director at Anubhav Design
- Interaction Design Consultant (contract) at Wells Fargo Bank
- Lead Interaction Designer at Spock
- Staff Interaction Designer at PayPal
- Advisor at LiveConnex
- Associate (Extern) at Jump Associates
- Web Designer at School of Planning, Arizona State University
- Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University
- Teaching Assistant (Visual Communication) at Arizona State University
- Education
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- Arizona State University
- School of Planning and Architecture
- Recommendations
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17 people have recommended Anubhav
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Anubhav Jain's Summary
SUMMARY
• Over 7 years of experience in user-experience design including interaction design and user-research, in consumer and enterprise web-based services, startups, and non-profit.
• Proven track-record of delivering products that are intuitive and easy to use, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and revenue.
• Results driven approach bringing together business goals and customers needs to deliver a ‘wow’ product experience.
• Excels in working with and leading multi-disciplinary teams.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Created vision for, and collaborated with cross-functional team to design and deliver PayPal's next generation ‘Fraud Investigation’ interface that increased efficiency by 10% within three months resulting in estimated savings of several million dollars per year in PayPal’s potential fraud losses.
• Designed and delivered ‘PayPal Security Key’ (second-factor authentication product) in the consumer market in the US, Germany and Australia with twice the expected adoption rate at launch, with industry first one/two-step login process that eliminated user error.
• Formed and lead multi-disciplinary team initiative to increase collaboration and speed innovation; Delivered product guidelines to enhance PayPal Checkout user-experience that eliminated existing need for engineering resources (estimated between 3-6 months).
• PayPalian Award Q3 ‘07, Meteor Shower Award, Shining Star Award, Blue Moon Award
Specialties
Interaction Designer with strong user-research and visual design skills. Strong focus on user-centered design process and experience working with multi-disciplinary teams. Interests also include consumer behavior, market research and design planning.
Hands-on skill in developing wireframes, site maps, user flows, experience maps, personas and scenarios. Adobe CS Fireworks, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio, HTML, CSS, Javascript
Anubhav Jain's Experience
Sr. Interaction Designer
Beta Soft Systems
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
November 2008 – Present (3 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay Area
UX Design consultant for startups, SMB and enterprise. Clients include:
Autodesk (current)
Williams-Sonoma
Lybba (http://lybba.org)
Wells Fargo Bank
See below for details.
Interaction Design Consultant (contract)
Autodesk
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADSK; Computer Software industry
March 2011 – Present (11 months) San Francisco
• Redesign of the Sustainable Design Center that resulted in a 13% increase in page views and ten-fold increase in product-trial downloads - http://usa.autodesk.com/sustainable-design/
• Redesign of the IDEA Studio site - http://www.autodesk.com/ideastudio
• Redesign of AutoCAD LT product center - http://usa.autodesk.com/autocad-lt/
Interaction Design Consultant (contract)
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; WSM; Retail industry
October 2010 – February 2011 (5 months)
• Competitive research for social & community features (including Facebook), and product information pages for e-commerce websites.
• Integration of international shipping for Pottery Barn family of sites.
Interaction Design Consultant (contract)
Lybba
Nonprofit; 1-10 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry
February 2010 – September 2010 (8 months)
• Plan and conduct user-research to understand patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn's and Colitis), deliver personas, scenarios, and preliminary information-architecture and framework for an online community of patients, family, and health-care providers.
• NIH funded project in collaboration with the Cincinnati Children's Hospital - http://c3nproject.org/
Director
Anubhav Design
March 2009 – March 2010 (1 year 1 month)
Independent consulting for startups, individuals and small business providing services in strategy, branding, print, and web based user-experience.
Clients include
http://www.watermillaccounting.co.uk
http://www.jains.us/corporatepoetry
Interaction Design Consultant (contract)
Wells Fargo Bank
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; WFC; Financial Services industry
November 2008 – December 2009 (1 year 2 months)
• Define requirements for and deliver user-interface for the next-generation Wells Fargo foreign-exchange money-transfer platform.
Lead Interaction Designer
Spock
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
May 2008 – October 2008 (6 months)
• Delivered homepage redesign to increase number of searches and new signups, communicate site functionality, and encourage exploration.
• Conducted user-research to design and deliver user-profile display and management user-interface based on user-goals.
• Designed, implemented and maintained standards-based CSS.
Staff Interaction Designer
PayPal
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; EBAY; Internet industry
July 2004 – April 2008 (3 years 10 months)
PayPal Checkout
• Formed and lead multi-disciplinary team initiative to increase collaboration and speed innovation; Delivered product guidelines to enhance PayPal Checkout user-experience that eliminated existing need for engineering resources (estimated between 3-6 months).
• Recommend integration best practice of 'PayPal Checkout' with third party merchant sites e.g. guess.com
PayPal Security Key (Second Factor Authentication)
• Lead UI Designer. Collaborated with multi-disciplinary team & Verisign to design and deliver ‘PayPal Security Key’ (http://paypal.com/securitykey) in the consumer market in the US, Germany and Australia with twice the expected adoption rate at launch, with an industry first one/two-step login process that eliminated user error.
Fraud Investigation Interface, Fraud Work Distribution & Optimization Interface, Other internal fraud tools
• Created vision for and deliverd the next generation of PayPal's ‘Fraud Investigation’ interface that increased efficiency by 10% within three months resulting in estimated savings of several million dollars per year in PayPal’s potential fraud losses.
• Research (review of documentation, contextual inquiry) in US & EU to understand existing work environment.
• Prototype development and usability testing (remote testing & in-person).
PayPal China
• Design for PayPal's entry into the Chinese market, working under tight deadlines and severe engineering constraints to deliver designs that tested well on usability.
Associate (Extern)
Jump Associates
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry
May 2004 – June 2004 (2 months)
Ethnographic research, data analysis & design in a multi-disciplinary team to identify user needs and develop a strategy for brand selection, design & display of merchandise, and marketing, for 'Target' retail stores.
Web Designer
School of Planning, Arizona State University
June 2003 – December 2003 (7 months)
Part-time (10 hours/week)
Research to understand student needs from an online resource, design & implementation of the Web site for the School of Planning, Arizona State University - interface design, graphics, coding in HTML & CSS, as well as design of brochures and flyers.
Teaching Assistant
Arizona State University
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
August 2001 – December 2003 (2 years 5 months)
Part-time (10 hours/week)
Independent class instruction, development of course material and tests, and grading. Classroom size ranged from 15 to 30 students, including sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduate students. Courses taught include
EDT 321: Computer Literacy - Intro to computers, Microsoft Office, interface design for the web
EDT323: Computer Applications - Intro to Adobe Photoshop, database design using Microsoft Access, interface design for the web, HTML
EDT 405: Presenting Technologies - Effective presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, Macromedia Flash, HTML interface design for print, Microsoft PowerPoint and the web.
Teaching Assistant (Visual Communication)
Arizona State University
Educational Institution; 10,001+ employees; Higher Education industry
January 2003 – May 2003 (5 months)
Part-time (10 hours/week)
Assisted Professor Alfred Sanft with instruction, developing course material and grading of the course GRA387: Visual Communication IV
Anubhav Jain's Languages
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English
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Hindi
(Native or bilingual proficiency)
Anubhav Jain's Education
Arizona State University
Master of Science in Design, Graphic Design
2001 – 2003
Master's Thesis
Designing for User-Experience: A user-centered approach to develop a strategy for the design of a new web site for automobile dealerships
Graduated with cumulative GPA of 4.0
Earl and Ellen Davis Scholarship, Fall 2002
Dean's Honor List, Spring 2002
Regent's Graduate Academic Scholarship, Fall 2001
School of Planning and Architecture
B. Arch., Architecture
1995 – 2000
Activities and Societies: Photography: For college festivals and annual conventions
Anubhav Jain's Additional Information
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Photography, Triathlons, Marathons, Cooking, Traveling, Sketching, Music, Movies
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IxDA
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- Honors and Awards:
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PayPalian Award Q3 2007, Meteor Shower Award, Shining Star Award, Blue Moon Award
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