Sankar Venkatanarayanan

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Hello! This is is Shankar. With over 20 years of hands-on and leadership experience in UX, I bring a proven track record of success. I have worked with clients worldwide, gaining invaluable insights into diverse user needs and preferences. Focused on result based design solutions that enhance business. Educating promoting user experience apart from the work environment for social cause. Throughout my career, I have excelled in building and scaling design systems, mentoring designers, and promoting a customer-centric approach within organizations. I have also conducted Design Thinking workshops and user research, enabling data-driven decision-making and ensuring a metric-based product design process. My accomplishments include achieving goals such as increased sales, cost reduction, and enhanced user experiences. Furthermore, I am passionate about mentoring and nurturing future design leaders to ensure organizational readiness. Helping business to execute the design vision, strategy, and roadmap for the digital platforms. Through Design Operations Advocating design excellence across the organization, ensuring a consistent and cohesive user experience. Collaborating with product, development, and marketing teams to deliver high-quality design solutions on time. Also Led the creation and maintenance of a unified design system and based on the brand guidelines. Led user research efforts to gather insights on customer needs, behaviors, and pain points. Ensured research findings are translated into actionable design recommendations. Gathering knowledge about industry trends, customer feedback, and competitor analysis to guide design decisions. Track and measure the impact of design initiatives on user satisfaction, engagement, and business KPIs. Continuously identifed opportunities for improvement through audits and user feedback. Showcased leadership skills by leading large team of Designers, Frontend developers and Product Owners. Handled multiple projects, ensured internal and external stakeholders satisfaction. I am holding Master's in Business Administration and improving knowledge and skills continuously. I have done a Transformational Leadership Course from XLRI, Jamshedpur. HCI AI systems design from University of Cambridge, Digital Transformation from Imperial College of Business School, London. I have done certifications on HCI from HFI International, Lean UX from Proof etc., Happy to share more when we meet!

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