Kaladhar Bapu

Current

• User Experience Designer at Microsoft
• Founder at UsabilityMatters.Org(UMO)

Past

• Manager, Usability Engineering Group at Cordys
• Senior Usability Engineer at Baan Infosystems
• Graduate Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

• Creative Designer at Dr.Neeraj Multimedia Studios Pvt.Ltd

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Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
• Andhra University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Kaladhar Bapu’s Summary

A seasoned and effective User Experience Designer with solid Information Architecture and creative problem solving skills in complicated Web application design.

Skills encompass communicating complex information through creating highly efficient user interfaces and visual solutions for dynamic Web-enabled systems based on gathering quantitative and qualitative business and user needs using user-centric design methods.

Work experience spans 12 years in User Experience Design and information architecture for digital mediums such as the Web, mobile, kiosks, and software applications using the latest methodologies, research, and technologies out of 18 years of design and production experience spans print, multimedia, photography, architecture, interiors, film set design, film visual effects, cartooning, caricatures, video, and audio.

Kaladhar Bapu’s Specialties:

User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, User Research,Usability Engineering, Visual Design, Identity Design and Instructional Design

Kaladhar Bapu’s Experience

• User Experience Designer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

• Founder

  UsabilityMatters.Org(UMO)

  (Non-Profit; Design industry)

  July 2000 — Present (9 years 5 months)

  He is the founder of Usability Matters.org (umo), a non-profit organization to make people more sensitive in usability and design.
  
  He is the primary contact for India to celebrate World Usability Day(WUD) at Hyderabad.He has been successful in organizing WUD (wud 2005, wud 2006 and wud 2007) in India every year to growing popularity amongst the designer and design sensitive community.
  
  Our Initiatives:
  TechEase'09(www.techease.in)
  UMO2007(www.umo.in/umo2007)
  UMO ChangeMakers
  Boycott Bad-Design contest 2009
  Boycott Bad-Design contest 2008
  Boycott Bad-Design contest 2007
  Boycott Bad-Design contest 2006
  Boycott Bad-Design contest 2005
  International Cartoon Contest2009
  International Cartoon Contest2008
  International Cartoon Contest2007
  International Cartoon Contest2006
  International Cartoon Contest2005
  World Usability Day 2008
  World Usability Day 2007
  World Usability Day 2006
  World Usability Day 2005
  IESUP 2004
  Design Workshops at Design &Business Schools,Architecture, Engineering, Fine Art Colleges and NASA.
  For more info: http://www.usabilitymatters.org

• Manager, Usability Engineering Group

  Cordys

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2001 — May 2006 (5 years 2 months)

• Senior Usability Engineer

  Baan Infosystems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1998 — April 2001 (2 years 11 months)

• Graduate Assistant

  Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 1996 — May 1998 (2 years )

• Creative Designer

  Dr.Neeraj Multimedia Studios Pvt.Ltd

  (E-Learning industry)

  June 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Kaladhar Bapu’s Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  MDes , Industrial Design , 1996 — 1998

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  BArch , Architecture , 1990 — 1995

• Andhra University

Additional Information

Kaladhar Bapu’s Interests:

Usability research, User experience design, Usability Engineering, Interaction design, Architectural history, Painting, Caricatures, Film making, Photography, Organizational development, Strategic planning, Professional networking, International travel

Kaladhar Bapu’s Groups:

Member, Usability Professionals' Association International(UPA),
Founder, UsabilityMatters.Org
CoFounder, UPA-Hyderabad
Alumnus, IIT Alumni

•    Interaction Design Association
•    Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
•    Boxes and Arrows
•    IIT Alumni
•    UsabilityMatters.Org
•    UX Professionals
•    Microsoft Employees
•    ex-BaaN
•    Sr level Internet Marketers Group, Internet Marketing Professionals Only.
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    Startup Specialists
•    Industrial Design Center Alumni
•    Cordys Alumni
•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
•    Network with IITians in Business-Build Relations-Global & International Engineers Leaders
•    School of Planning & ARChitecture.JNTU.Hyd

Kaladhar Bapu’s Honors:

99.7 percentile in IIT Entrance
National 1st Rank
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

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