User talk:Smartsanjaykumar

User Experience Architect
Sanjay Kumar is a User Experience Architect and usability professional. He has worked with Fortune 500 clients like GE & CITI Bank, helping them envision and improve the experiences and usability of their web sites and applications.In 2005 when civil engineering was not having a great job market in India he tried his career in Information Technology.This leads to join [Satyam Computer Services Ltd,] in October 2005.

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Worked extensively in User Experience Management, Financial Products, User interface design and information architecture methodologies, including UCD(User-centered design), heuristic evaluations, User Interface Competitive analysis, accessibility, wire framing, prototyping, usability testing, User surveys and iterative development. His unique background bridges the gap between creative, engineering, and business goals.

Currently he is involved in User Experience Consulting for developing mobile device applications for travel & transportation industry group of Mind Tree Ltd. He is active in writing usability articles and brown papers pertaining to user experience & mobile usability. Worked on Kotak NRI banking proposals and came up with two alternate NRI home page designs. Developing new User Experience designs for applications is a passion for him; he is also involved in user experience consulting for eBay.com to come up with alternative designs to improve the overall user experience of eBay.com listing section.Conducted Remote usability testing using Morae usability testing tool. Experience in IA & card sorting.

Likes & hobbies ... He loves business books & User Experience Design strategies. Swims if he find a nice pool, was in college swimming team, winning matches. Loves to work out. A speaker in parties enjoying great time.

His blog on UX process & methodologies. http://www.uxgyan.blogspot.com/

You can write to him @ : sanjay_kumar3@mindtree.com

Work Aspirations ... "Add value to life by Designing better products & applications + be good with people" Specialties:

He has performed User Experience consulting for • FETAC (Heuristics Evaluation & Recommendations) • Gen worth financial (Heuristics Evaluation & Recommendations) • Quest.satyam.com (Heuristics Evaluation & Recommendations) • United Nations (Heuristics Evaluation & Recommendations) • Wal-Mart(Heuristics Evaluation & Recommendations)