Vishnu Mahendran, Designer in San Francisco, CA, United States
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Vishnu Mahendran

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Designer

Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Toptal Member Since
August 17, 2017

Vishnu is a software engineer turned designer. His journey from “how” things are built to “why” things are built led him to the interesting position of being able to holistically design systems. He has designed products used by world’s leading brands like Sky, MasterCard, Netflix, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and New York Times. Vishnu is also an avid world traveler and food lover.

Portfolio

Work Experience

Product Designer

2016 - 2016
Return Path
  • Introduced localization as part of design process by creating a tool to localize mocks.
  • Created wireframes, mocks, interactive prototypes, and micro-interactions for enterprise dashboard tools in agile sprints.
  • Ran usability tests and customer interviews to validate designs with Fortune 500 companies & received positive feedback.
  • Worked on building the design system based on atomic design.
  • Researched and suggested best practices for data visualization.
Technologies: Zeplin, Sketch

UX Team Lead

2015 - 2016
University of Michigan - Design Clinic
  • Provided design & stategy consultations to many early startups.
  • Led 4 member team to design & created a roadmap for web based entrepreneur social platform.
Technologies: Adobe Illustrator, Sketch

UX Designer & Software Engineer

2014 - 2015
Novell
  • Designed mobile apps on Windows and iOS.
  • Managed life-cycle and developed ‘Novell iPrint’s Windows Phone app from scratch.
  • Featured in ’slashgear.com - Must Have Business Apps for Windows Phone’ & downloaded by 40,000 users.
Technologies: Windows Phone, iOS, Android
2015 - 2017

Master's Degree in Human Computer Interaction

University of Michigan - Michigan

2010 - 2014

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

PSG College of Technology - India

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