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Raj Nihar Singh Thakur

Dallas,Tx

Summary

Creative UX Researcher/Designer with 10 years of developing innovative, approachable human-centered designs for Retail, E-commerce, and healthcare products. Skilled at diverging from UX norms without alienating users. Ceaselessly focused on user-centric design decisions. Accomplished at creating new designs that feel familiar to ease user adoption.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. UX Designer

DeNoVo-System (Worked For Multiple Clients: Conifer-HealthSolutions, FedEx, Horizon Bluecross-BlueShield, Hyundai)
07.2020 - Current
  • Led a small group of designers and worked side by side with Product Management and IT Development teams to deliver a number of Customer and Enterprise web and mobile applications
  • Lead research and design efforts for Enterprise applications such as Workflow management integration Platform for Enterprise Services addressing the needs of the employees across Horizon Blue
  • Lead design efforts for multiple customer-facing applications such as Case Management, Payments, Plan Analysis Tool, Integrated Customer view, addressing user needs of Horizon Blue
  • Finding pain points and complexities in UI workflow through conducting user studies
  • Convert the qualitative and quantitative feedback into personas, journey mapping, and user scenarios
  • Propose architectural flows for the desktop and tablet UI applications and present the solutions to the stakeholders and development teams
  • Propose solutions that coordinate with the proposed project budget and timeline
  • Convert the proposed solution and architecture into UI wireframes
  • Conduct co-creative workshops to bring out innovative solutions with fellow designers and development teams.
  • Presented design concepts persuasively to stakeholders, securing buy-in for proposed solutions and driving project success.
  • Enhanced user experience by conducting extensive research and analysis of target audiences, resulting in improved usability and satisfaction.
  • Implemented strategies to increase website traffic.

UX Designer/Researcher

Rapiscan Systems
09.2017 - 06.2020
  • Worked closely with CTO, Business Managers, and product Managers for Next Generation Product providing user research insights and converting research findings into Low/Hi-fidelity prototypes
  • Established and executed human-Centered Approach for carrying out user research for Next Generation Projects such as Participatory design, Scenario-based Design
  • Redesigned the console and reduced the console and reduced the number of clicks on the UI and console to complete the task.

UX Designer

DeNoVo-System
08.2016 - 09.2017
  • Actively contributed to internal knowledge sharing by presenting case studies on completed projects to cross-functional colleagues, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Finding the pain points and complexities in the UI workflow through conducting user studies
  • Convert the qualitative and quantitative feedback into personas, journey mapping, and user scenarios
  • Performed manual testing on UX design elements and completed UX designs, authoring feedback reports for use in future updates.
  • Propose architectural flows for the desktop and tablet UI applications and present the solutions to the stakeholders and development teams
  • Presented design concepts to executive leadership, effectively communicating the rationale behind decisions and advocating for user-centric approaches.
  • Convert the proposed solution and architecture into UI wireframes
  • Conducted thorough user research, identifying key pain points and opportunities for improvement.
  • Conduct co-creative workshops to bring out innovative solutions with fellow designers and development teams.

UX Specialist

Florida Institute of Technology
05.2015 - 08.2016
  • Worked on Innovative Projects such as Context Sensitive Cockpit Design, onboard weather situation awareness system, the Interactive Clouds Visualization, Floc of Birds using Drones.

Education

Master of Science - Human Centered Design

Florida Institute of Technology-Melbourne
07.2016

Bachelor of Science - EET

Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
07.2013

Skills

  • Human-Centered Design
  • Thinking
  • Journey Mapping
  • Personas & Scenario
  • Wireframes
  • Rapid Iterative Prototyping
  • Usability Testing
  • Agile Methodology
  • Product Management
  • Cognitive Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Survey
  • Cognitive Walkthrough
  • Concept Testing
  • Card Sorting
  • A/B Testing (Split Testing)
  • QOC (Question Option Criteria)
  • Focus Groups
  • Product development
  • Qualitative Interviews
  • Software
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Figma
  • Sketch
  • Zeplin
  • Balsamiq
  • Axure
  • UserZoom
  • Sketchup 3D, Unity 3D
  • Auto CAD, Auto Desk 3ds max
  • MAYA
  • Issue Resolution
  • Wireframing and Prototype Design

Professional Interests

  • E-commerce
  • Ads Insights
  • Health Care
  • Banking
  • User Privacy
  • AR/VR

Timeline

Sr. UX Designer

DeNoVo-System (Worked For Multiple Clients: Conifer-HealthSolutions, FedEx, Horizon Bluecross-BlueShield, Hyundai)
07.2020 - Current

UX Designer/Researcher

Rapiscan Systems
09.2017 - 06.2020

UX Designer

DeNoVo-System
08.2016 - 09.2017

UX Specialist

Florida Institute of Technology
05.2015 - 08.2016

Master of Science - Human Centered Design

Florida Institute of Technology-Melbourne

Bachelor of Science - EET

Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology
Raj Nihar Singh Thakur