Sameer Chavan

Sameer Chavan

Interaction Designer, Industrial Designer, User Researcher at LG R&D Labs, Seoul

Korea

Current
  • Chief Researcher - Human Computer Interaction at LG Electronics
  • Entrepreneur & Founder - Internet Startup & Experience Design company at LillyChilli
Past

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Education
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • PVP Institute of Technology, Sangli
  • Modern English School
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Industry
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Sameer Chavan’s Summary

User Researcher, Design Manager, Usability Evangelist & Product Designer with over 12yrs of Industry experience working on Mobile, Enterprise Web Applications, Internet Portals/ consumer Websites,
Working on multimodal interactions, speech recognitions, face recognition, future mobile UI themes & ecosystems.

Check out http://www.sameerchavan.com

Sameer Chavan’s Specialties:

Tools and techniques- Usability Engineering, User Research, User Interface Design, Ethnography, Cognitive Psychology, Design Management, Trend Analysis and Benchmarking, Industrial design, transportation design,

Domain - Touch screen Mobiles, desktop apps, Internet portals and Enterprise Web applications.

Technologies: Speech, Gestures, Haptics, multimodal interactions, Augmented reality apps,

Sameer Chavan’s Experience

  • Chief Researcher - Human Computer Interaction

    LG Electronics

    (Public Company; 066570.KS; Consumer Electronics industry)

    August 2009 — Present (7 months)

    Working on Mobile design at LG R&D labs, Seocho-gu, Seoul.
    Focus on Multi-modal interactions, touch screens, 3D Gestures, Speech and face recognitions. Trend analysis.

  • Entrepreneur & Founder - Internet Startup & Experience Design company

    LillyChilli

    (Internet industry)

    January 2009 — Present (1 year 2 months)

    User Experience Design consultancy www.LillyChilli.com
    and healthcare portal www.healthyjeevan.com

    User research, UI Design, Usability Testing, Prototyping for Enterprise Web apps, E-commerce Sites,Desktop Apps, Touch screen Gesture based Mobile Apps, Heuristic Reviews & recommendations.

  • Vice President - User Experience & Design

    Info Edge India Ltd, (Naukri.com, Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, .. )

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    June 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 7 months)

    Heading a team of 40 Interaction Designer, Web Designers, Graphic Designers & Usability Engineers. Responsible for strategic design directions, UI Standards & Patterns, Introducing Usability Testing, Evangelizing Usability and coaching & Building UX team

  • Manager - User Experience

    Oracle India Pvt Ltd

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

    September 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 5 months)

    Worked as Manager User Experience for more then a dozen Industry Vertical applications like Financials Services, Telecommunications, Higher educations, Pharmaceutical & Clinical.
    Responsible for setting up Usability lab, recruiting designers, building UI team, coordinating with US Head quarters. Managed a team of people from India and US.
    Coaching the team and overseeing work on Interaction design, UI Standards and Patterns, Usability Lab testing and Remote testing.
    Interact with Development, Product management and Strategy to define deliverables, timelines and validate designs.

  • UI Lead

    Siemens PLM Software (formally SDRC / UGS )

    (Public Company; SI; Computer Software industry)

    December 2003 — September 2004 (10 months)

    Worked for UGS as UI lead managing UI designers and coordinating offshore delivery. Worked on Usability tests at US, Contextual Enquiry at UK. Designed user interactions for Team Center Engineering Products.

  • Group leader Usability Engineering

    Geometric Software Solutions

    (Public Company; Internet industry)

    2001 — 2003 (2 years )

  • Sr. Interaction Designer

    TechMahindra

    (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

    2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  • Assistant Manager - (Styling)Product Design

    Bajaj Auto

    (Public Company; Automotive industry)

    1999 — 2000 (1 year )

  • CAD Design Engineer/Sheetmetal prototying - R&D

    Mahindra & Mahindra Limited

    (Public Company; Automotive industry)

    June 1995 — July 1997 (2 years 2 months)

    Worked on computer aided designing for Bus, Jeep(Balero) & concept SUV ( Scorpio). Involved in prototyping, body layout, Gear box designing. Worked on SGI UNIX machines on Alias & Catia softwares.

Sameer Chavan’s Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

    M.Des , Industrial Design , 1997 — 1999

  • PVP Institute of Technology, Sangli

    B.E Mech , Mechanical Engineering , 1991 — 1995

  • Modern English School

    10th , 1979 — 1989

Additional Information

Sameer Chavan’s Websites:

Sameer Chavan’s Interests:

Product Design, Transportation design, UI & Usability, Cognitive psychology, ethnography and ergonomics, management, Mechanical design

Sameer Chavan’s Groups:

UPA, ACM, SIGCHI, HCIIDC, President - UPA Hyderabad (www.upahyderabad.org)

  •    Club ex-Oracle.org
  •    Interaction Design Association
  •    Boxes and Arrows
  •    IIT Alumni
  •    UX Professionals
  •    HCI India
  •    Designindia
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    Siemens PLM (UGS)
  •    User Experience
  •    User Experience Group
  •    ORACLE CONNECTIONS
  •    Information Architect, IA
  •    Industrial Design
  •    Bajajians
  •    Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
  •    User Experience Professionals Network
  •    Tech Mahindra Ltd
  •    IDC Batch 97-99, IIT Bombay
  •    Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
  •    Indian Entrepreneurs– From The Economic Times 'Power of Ideas'
  •    Handsets World
  •    Mobile User Experience
  •    The Indian Startup Fraternity
  •    Mobile User Experience

Sameer Chavan’s Honors:

1) Pending US Patent..Filed on sept 2007*
2) Showcased as leading Industrial designer on BBC World in 1999.
3) "Task description for usability testing" Accepted paper for HCII2007, China
4) "Opportunity for Industrial Engineers in Human Computer Interaction" (Word ) article in theglobaleducator magazine - Sept 2006
5) "Culture & Usability in Enterprise Applications" paper presentation at IIT Guwahati, - May 2006
6) "What is HCI" an article published in Indian magazine, "DeveloperIQ" - April 2006
7) "Standards Based Approach for Software User Interface Design" CHI paper presentation at Easy6 conference, Bangalore. - Jan 2006,
8) " Virtual or Remote Collaboration" , a presentation at UPA, MN conference.- Aug 2003
9) “Product Design” a Presentation at Design conference, pune India - Feb 2004
10) “Need for Usability / ROI for Usability “ a presentation at CHI chapter, Pune India - Mar 2003
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