I work as a UX Designer at ekincare, Hyderabad. After work I play badminton, football, PS 🎮(@anshulpro), sometimes run, swim, draw, attend meetups, workshops, read a book ...
Work
After Work
Process I follow (single product release)
People / team involved
Define problem clearly
Listening and note the requirements, asking lot of questions, to know timelines, people involved, expectations, user, customer...to know beforehand on why we are doing it, where should it fit in the existing product
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Brainstorming with ideas and people
Bring lot of ideas and people together (if they aren’t busy) to THINK on solution, tweak, mix-match, add or remove to get a
final this-should-work idea
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User flow & Process flow
Creating and validating with “this-should-work idea”, making neccessary changes to solidify the concept
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Low Fidelity Wireframes
Adding important data-points and IA, CTA buttons, icons, navigation, real content (no lorem ipsum), placeholder, using grayscale colors…
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High Fidelity Wireframes
Adding more details like colors, illustrations, images, consistent spacing/typography/existing UI patterns/tone, using sketch symbols, better writing…
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Final Review & Feedback
Final major changes will be made. Everything else will go in next release.
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Handover to VD / DEV
Sharing the designs to the VD or DEV team and helping them with any critical changes while they build (if required)
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Going LIVE and collecting Feedback
It works. Now collect feedback on it for next release…
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KEY
PM - Product Manager DEV - Developers CxO - CTO / CEO VD - Visual Designer
essential for my designs
NOTE
Few process steps are good but I use them sparingly. I don’t get much time to do them as I think I should (like properly) :
User Research
Some of the techniques like interviews, fly on the wall, card sorting, recording user screens, listening customer calls and collecting insights from analytics are my favorite.
Testing with actual Users
Knowing how actual users use the product gives real insight on what is good or bad and can be improved upon.
High Fidelity Mockup
Designing polished UI is not something I really crave for. Let the VD handle that. I am more of deep-thinker and ASAP maker.
Process I Follow (at ekincare)
Process I follow (single product release)
Define problem clearly
Listening and note the requirements, asking lot of questions, to know timelines, people involved, expectations, user, customer...to know beforehand on why we are doing it, where should it fit in the existing product
MyselfPMOther Teams
Brainstorming with ideas and people
Bring lot of ideas and people together (if they aren’t busy) to THINK on solution, tweak, mix-match, add or remove to get a
final this-should-work idea
MyselfPMDEVCxOOther Teams
User flow & Process flow
Creating and validating with “this-should-work idea”, making neccessary changes to solidify the concept
MyselfPM
Low Fidelity Wireframes
Adding important data-points and IA, CTA buttons, icons, navigation, real content (no lorem ipsum), placeholder, using grayscale colors…
MyselfPM
High Fidelity Wireframes
Adding more details like colors, illustrations, images, consistent spacing/typography/existing UI patterns/tone, using sketch symbols, better writing…
MyselfPMVD
Final Review & Feedback
Final major changes will be made. Everything else will go in next release.
MyselfPMVDDEV
Handover to VD / DEV
Sharing the designs to the VD or DEV team and helping them with any critical changes while they build (if required)
MyselfVDDEV
Going LIVE and collecting Feedback
It works. Now collect feedback on it for next release…
MyselfPMDEVCxOOther Teams
KEY
PM - Product Manager DEV - Developers CxO - CTO / CEO VD - Visual Designer
essential for my designs
NOTE
Few process steps are good but I use them sparingly. I don’t get much time to do them as I think I should (like properly) :
User Research
Some of the techniques like interviews, fly on the wall, card sorting, recording user screens, listening customer calls and collecting insights from analytics are my favorite.
Testing with actual Users
Knowing how actual users use the product gives real insight on what is good or bad and can be improved upon.
High Fidelity Mockup
Designing polished UI is not something I really crave for. Let the VD handle that. I am more of deep-thinker and ASAP maker.
Work at ekincare (1 year 8+ months - currently working)
The best part of working in a product based small startup is freedom to learn. My work here involve :
PRODUCT 1. Designing new mockups/wireframes/user-flow against features (as per product roadmap) for mobile/web. These are build to see the end-to-end functionality, for data representation and sometimes for pure ideation. :-)
2. Writing(Microcopy) is important and do ensure to use simple vocabulary and generic language for the user to comprehend (NO LOREM IPSUM...LIKE NEVER !!!)
MARKETING Designing webpages(design + code), coding HTML Mailers for corporates, quick design reviews of final deliverables (ads/poster/standee/brochure...) by marketing team or Graphic Designers
OTHER Collecting user pain-points from customer support team (via call/chatbot) ...
Work at ThinkDesign (1 year 1 month)
Design Studio has its own charm. Your design sense improves a lot as you are always among designers (better than me..:-) My work here involved :
e-Customs enterprise web application Gathering product and business requirements from stakeholders via workshop, creating IA, task flow diagrams for each modules, click through wireframes, dashboard design
Agriculture inventory management platform web & mobile Gathering client, tech and user requirements, customer journey mapping, user profiling, visual design
Work at CoCubes (5 months)
First job. Wasn't expecting anything much than learning. Poor company for designers, as no proper feedback was given :-( but learnt illustrator very well, how to work under high pressure and what corporate bullshit really looks like. My work here involved :
UI Design for Coding and Multiple Choice Question platform, Information Design for automated Diagnostic Career Test (DCT) reports