Hitesh Mehta (hiteshkmehta@gmail.com)

Current

• Deputy General Manager & Head - User Experience Design & Branding at People Interactive
• Design Consultant (Social Media) at Proto.in / BarCamp / BlogCamp
• UX Consultant at hiteshmehta.in (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

• Design Head at BharatMatrimony.com, ClickJobs.com, IndiaProperty.com, IndiaAutomobile.com, IndiaPages.com
• Design Consultant at SweetCircles.com
• Freelance UI Designer at Cherish Solutions (Sole Proprietorship)

• Lead Designer at D & Z
• Creative Head at VUI
• Senior UI Designer at Omnikron Systems (R&D Group for Omnikron, USA)

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Education

• University of Madras

Recommended

38 people have recommended Hitesh

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Hitesh Mehta (hiteshkmehta@gmail.com)’s Summary

An award winning user experience professional, blogger, branding professional, usability enthusiast and a communication designer.
Analysing the online and offline consumer experiences, understanding the user-base and the businesses, segmenting the users by age factor, gender, stages of life and many such aspects are the key measurable for any user experience professionals.

I have worked as a Web & Branding Professional for the last 10 years in both full time positions and as consultant to local & international clients. Have worked for portals which have won few notable awards for India’s big brands in the Internet Industry.

Usability expert with a diversified portfolio of portals which includes Matrimony, Real Estate, Job/Career, Automobile, Finance, Healthcare/Pharma, Social Networking, Classifieds, Blog Engine.

Hitesh Mehta (hiteshkmehta@gmail.com)’s Specialties:

Information Architecture, Navigation Concepts, Information Design, User Experience and User Centred Design Principles, Web2.0, Usability Review, Visual and Interactive Design, User Orientation Strategies, Content Recommendations, Prototyping and Implementation, Brand Identity Design, Corporate Branding, Online Branding, Graphic Standards and Guidelines, Advertising Design, Typography and Colour Theory, Design Team Management.

Hitesh Mehta (hiteshkmehta@gmail.com)’s Experience

• Deputy General Manager & Head - User Experience Design & Branding

  People Interactive

  (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  - Heading UED team of People Interactive. Responsible for User Interface Design of shaadi.com, makaan.com, fropper.com and online branding activities of these businesses.
  
  - Adding business value by recommending user centered designs
  
  - Core focus on highly rich consumer experience, considering the segmented users across geographies

• Design Consultant (Social Media)

  Proto.in / BarCamp / BlogCamp

  (Non-Profit; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Have provided branding solutions for proto.in / BarCamp (Chennai & Mumbai) including ideation on marketing materials, online branding concepts, etc.

• UX Consultant

  hiteshmehta.in (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Design industry)

  January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

  Providing design, usability and branding solutions for startups!

• Design Head

  BharatMatrimony.com, ClickJobs.com, IndiaProperty.com, IndiaAutomobile.com, IndiaPages.com

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 7 months)

  Branding:
  Working closely with the brands and to make sure most of the communication and design speaks the same language and in-line with the brand, viz, BharatMatrimony.com, ClickJobs.com, IndiaProperty.com, IndiaAutomobile.com, IndiaPages.com, IndiaList.com, LoanWala.com, SikhMatrimony.com.
  
  Design Standardization:
  Taking major decision on design of portals. Setting up design standards across major portals. Directing the designers on how to balance the overall design, not to go away from design styles.
  
  Campaign Design:
  Giving ideas to designers on what kind of design works well, ideating with some innovative concepts for fresh campaign etc.
  
  Branding knowledge, Understanding of human-behaviour pattern, Strong on Color patterns, designing interface, strong on applying what is required on a portal (interface, communication, design, colors, etc), understanding technology and in-line with the happenings on the design trends, internet trends, good at communication/content area.

• Design Consultant

  SweetCircles.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — July 2007 (3 months)

  - Branding & Design
  - User Interace Design
  - Navigation & Workflow

• Freelance UI Designer

  Cherish Solutions (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

  June 2005 — November 2005 (6 months)

• Lead Designer

  D & Z

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  January 2004 — March 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  Worked for some fantastic Healthcare brands like,
  
  # Apollo Hospitals
  
  # Trivitron Group of Companies (Advertising, Print collateral, Web Site, Presentations, Exhibit Design)
  
  # Metropolis Health Services (Advertising, Corporate Folders, CD/DVD Packaging, Presentations, Exhibit Design)
  
  # Ashva Technologies (Corporate Identity Design, Sub-Brand Designs, Print collateral, Presentations, Product UI, Packaging, Stall design)
  
  Few other brands:
  
  # Stop at Sam's (Restaurant) - Offline creatives
  # ConneXions - Offline creatives
  # Ramco Systems Ltd - Offline creatives

• Creative Head

  VUI

  (Partnership; Internet industry)

  April 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 1 month)

  Corporate Branding, User Interface & Navigation Design for various projects, Product / Application Design

• Senior UI Designer

  Omnikron Systems (R&D Group for Omnikron, USA)

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2000 — February 2001 (1 year )

Additional Information

Hitesh Mehta (hiteshkmehta@gmail.com)’s Interests:

Social Networking, Business Networking, Web2.0, Usability Research, Branding, Photography, Blogging, Writing

Hitesh Mehta (hiteshkmehta@gmail.com)’s Groups:

http://barcamp.org/BarCampChennai
http://www.proto.in
Indian Matrimonials Portal
Internet & Mobile Professionals

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Interaction Design Association
•    Business Development
•    The Knowledge Foundation Society
•    Mobile Monday India
•    Innovation People Expert Innovators Creative Network
•    Web 2.0
•    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
•    Creativity Champions
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    ENTREPRENEURS-GET FUNDED
•    Online Advertising Professionals
•    YOUNG INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS
•    ThoseinMedia
•    IMM 2.0 - Intelligent Mobile Marketing (+10000 members) Join now!
•    E-Commerce Network
•    MBL University's Leadership Coaching Forum
•    Innovation and Entrepreneurship
•    Semantic Web
•    India Leadership Network
•    web 3.0
•    HCI India
•    Designindia
•    Refresh - Promoting design, technology,and usability.
•    Startup Specialists
•    Proto.in : The Community
•    Best Practice Exchange
•    "Young Turks", ENTREPRENEURS of India
•    Mobile Content
•    eCommerce in India
•    Mobile Product Management
•    Internet Product Management Group
•    Online Marketing Network
•    Internet 3.0 - (Web 1.0+ Web 2.0)
•    BloggersMeet
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    Design Research
•    Tweeple
•    Travel & Tourism Industry Professionals Worldwide
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Freelance Switch
•    Designers Talk
•    Safaris 2.0
•    Socially Networked Professionals of India
•    The Domainers Network
•    People Group
•    Online Travel Technology

Hitesh Mehta (hiteshkmehta@gmail.com)’s Honors:

# PC World "Web Awards 2008" - Shaadi.com (Overall Winner & Best Design Category)

# ClickJobs voted as most user-friendly job portal by internet users - JuxtConsult Report 2008

# Certificate of Appreciation from Consim Group for winning PC-World awards

# PC World "Best India Websites 2007" - BharatMatrimony.com (Overall Winner-Matrimony Category)

# PC World "Best India Websites 2007"- IndiaProperty.com (Overall Winner-Real Estate Category)

# PC World "Best India Websites 2007"-ClickJobs.com (Best Design)

# Webby Honoree Award (clickjobs.com) - 2006

# Outstanding Performance Award (2005-2006) BharatMatrimony

# Brand Design of Proto.in & BogCamp.in

# Honoured for designing logo for a social group 'Yuva Forum' Chennai - 2003

# The Design Editor of 'The Indian Express' appreciated the catalog design for 'The Institute of Graphic Design' - 2002

# Mastered Brainbench Certification, Flash - 2001

# Best Student of the Year Award, Arena Multimedia - 2000

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