Kaushik Ghosh
Designer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Member since December 18, 2015
Kaushik is an experienced UX architect and UI designer. He has worked for many global IT and product heavyweights, mostly Fortune 100 companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Intuit, T-Mobile, Cisco, and more. He also has worked for numerous startups in San Francisco, Singapore, and Bangalore.
Kaushik is now available for hire
Portfolio
Employment
- Experience Lead, Customer Care Application Expert2014 - PRESENTCisco
- Worked as one of the Experience Leads for Customer Care products (Cloud and On Premise).
- Learned Agile and UX collaboration methods including backlog grooming from user experience goals.
- Defined customer research strategy and collaborated with product leadership to define the road map.
- Worked on interactive prototyping and user research.
- Defined cross functional alignment on delivering usage analytics framework.
Technologies: Agile Methods, HTML5 - Principal Interaction Design & Innovation Lead2010 - 2013Intuit Inc.
- Led and managed innovation programs for the Center of Innovation & Experience Design.
- Was awarded an excellent work performance review form the Intuit India Development Center.
- Key responsibilities include bringing in creative synergies, and evangelizing design sensitivity among different technology, product, and platform work groups that ultimately produced delightful experiences for the customers across US and global markets (Singapore, UK, Canada, and India).
- Responsible for creating customer-centered experiences for different usage contexts, roles, and delivery channels (web, mobile, and cloud).
- Used Intuit's renowned 'Design for Delight' methodologies.
- Collaborated with product management to device, design, implement, and analyze experiments.
- Conducted training and coaching for internal resources to become Innovation Catalysts.
Technologies: NA - Senior Lead Consultant UX2008 - 2010Capgemini Inc. HK
- Worked as a Sr. Lead Consultant for the clients in the Asia Pacific region. Engaged with HSBC Global User Experience groups, located across Hong Kong, UK, U.S., and Canada.
- Worked with the HSBC Customer Research & Knowledge Management processes, contributing to the global practices and liaising with the Core Business Team at HSBC Group.
- Created strategic customer experience projects included "Multi-channel Customer Experience Review Framework" for multiple global regions.
- Other projects include Global Customer Experience Management Dashboards for MIS-related Balance Score Cards, and more.
- Also contributed to managing the working relationships and project sourced from other clients such as RBS and Barclays Bank.
Technologies: iRise, Design Project Management - Research Associate2003 - 2004Media Lab Asia (Media Lab MIT)
- Worked as a part of the e-development group, Media Lab MIT. Conducted contextual design research for the appropriate interface for functionally illiterate users of micro-finance systems and processes in rural India.
- Some of the design projects involved developing low-cost handheld mobile computing devices with context-specific applications and services for the local communities supporting informal banking, micro- enterprise and trading processes in Indian villages.
- Applied Human Centered Design principles and published research papers in ACM and IEEE conferences.
- Collaborated with researchers at University of Washington, Cornell University, and the Indian Institute of Technology.
- Developed interactive prototypes and installations.
Technologies: NA
Other Experience
Education
- Certificate of Completion degree in Design Thinking for Business Innovation2013 - 2013University of Virginia, Darden School of Business - Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)
- Master's degree in Communication & Interactive Design1991 - 1998National Institute of Design - Ahmedabad, India
Experience
- User Experience (UX)11 years
- Adobe Creative Suite8 years
- Contextual Design8 years
- User Interface (UI)8 years
- Customer Experience8 years
- Sketch 33 years
Tools
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Sketch 3
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