
User Experience Designer at Microsoft (bapu@kaladhar.com)
India

User Experience Designer at Microsoft (bapu@kaladhar.com)
India
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.
User Experience Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Interface Design, User Research,Usability Engineering, Visual Design, Identity Design and Instructional Design
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
(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
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2001 — May 2006 (5 years 2 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1998 — April 2001 (2 years 11 months)
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
June 1996 — May 1998 (2 years )
(E-Learning industry)
June 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 1 month)
MDes , Industrial Design , 1996 — 1998
BArch , Architecture , 1990 — 1995
Usability research, User experience design, Usability Engineering, Interaction design, Architectural history, Painting, Caricatures, Film making, Photography, Organizational development, Strategic planning, Professional networking, International travel
Member, Usability Professionals' Association International(UPA),
Founder, UsabilityMatters.Org
CoFounder, UPA-Hyderabad
Alumnus, IIT Alumni
99.7 percentile in IIT Entrance
National 1st Rank
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India