Nithin Kuriakose Kadukakarottu (H) Kakkamthodu, Changanacherry, India-686101 Mobile: +919847737736 [email protected] U X D E S I G N E R I N F O R M A T I O N A R C H I T E C T I N T E R A C T I O N D E S I G N E R User-experience designer adept in researching, forecasting, identifying and incorporating consumer needs into user-centered designs across multiple platforms. Expertise includes: User Research: Improve Web site alignment with customer needs through user research that includes in-depth interviews, contextual inquiries and field/diary studies. Persona Creation: Lead persona creation to optimize user journeys, develop site maps, empathy map, experience map, storyboards, scenarios, and construct wireframes enabling effortless navigation. Information Architecture: Incorporate IA methods that include card sorting, affinity diagramming, free listing, mental models and search log analysis. Usability Testing: Participate in all phases of usability testing in lab and remote settings. Interaction Design: Defining interactions for software (mobile, web and tablet) and electronic devices. EXPERIENCE INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI, Guwahati - 781039 Research Associate under Prof. Keyur Sorathia, Department of Design, 2014 October to Present “Generation of Invention reports on future of mobile communications” A collaboration with Nokia (Invent with Nokia) IWN & patenting division, the project aims to build invention reports on futuristic concepts on mobile communication. The project explores the possibility of using wearable computing, Internet of things and ubiquitous computing platforms. QBURST.com — 9th floor, 9-A, Phase 4, Leela Infopark, Kochi - 682030 User Experience Engineer, 2012 to September 2014 I am working for the User Experience team at QBurst Technologies, one of the leading custom web & mobile application developer in India. I have been part of almost 25+ successful projects on a variety of platforms such as mobile, tablet and websites with an overall industry experience of 2+ years. My responsibilities and roles as a user experience engineer at QBurst include a sum of Interaction Designing, Information Architecture, Content writing, Prototyping and partially some sort of Business Analysis and Visual Design within the circle of Usability & User Experience. Within a short span of time, I have been able to manage a small team in my company as well. EDUCATION Amal Jyothi College of Engineering— Kottayam, India B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering, 2012 “Human Computer Interaction” by Stanford University through Coursera. “Design: Creation of Artefacts in Society” by University of Pennsylvania through Coursera. “Design Thinking Action Lab” by Stanford University through Venture Labs. “Design Thinking For Business Innovation by University of Virginia through Coursera SKILL SET Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator); MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher), Axure, Visio, Balsamiq, Processing, HTML, CSS, Online Marketing, Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Usability, User Experience Design, Heuristic Evaluation, Paper Prototyping, Heuristic Analysis, User Analysis, Iterative Design, User Journeys, Information Architecture, Usability Engineering, User Interface Design, Mobile Usability Testing, Agile UX, Design Management & Strategy, Mobile Interaction Design, Card Sorting, Wireframes, User Research, User Scenarios, Requirements Analysis, Information Design, Affective computing, Ubiquitous computing, Organic User Interfaces, Wearable Computing CONFERENCES & EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Attended 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Human Computer Interaction. Attended 5th Human Computer Interaction Conference India. An active member of Human Computer Interaction Professionals Association of India right from the inception. • • • PUBLICATIONS • • • • http://blog.qburst.com/2013/01/designing-experience/ http://blog.qburst.com/2012/12/its-persuasion-all-around/ http://blog.qburst.com/2013/05/google-glass-the-name-says-it-all/ http://blog.qburst.com/2013/07/the-big-design-problem-and-the-great-designer/
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