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    The document provides information about Pranali Valsangkar's experience and qualifications. It includes a summary of her roles as a User Experience Designer and Senior Interaction Designer, the projects she has worked on spanning various domains like finance, travel, e-commerce, and her education background which includes a post graduate diploma in Information and Interface Design. It also lists her skills in areas like user research, concept development, prototyping, visual design, and her belief in focusing on the design process to achieve good outcomes.

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    The document provides information about Pranali Valsangkar's experience and qualifications. It includes a summary of her roles as a User Experience Designer and Senior Interaction Designer, the projects she has worked on spanning various domains like finance, travel, e-commerce, and her education background which includes a post graduate diploma in Information and Interface Design. It also lists her skills in areas like user research, concept development, prototyping, visual design, and her belief in focusing on the design process to achieve good outcomes.

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    The document provides information about Pranali Valsangkar's experience and qualifications. It includes a summary of her roles as a User Experience Designer and Senior Interaction Designer, the projects she has worked on spanning various domains like finance, travel, e-commerce, and her education background which includes a post graduate diploma in Information and Interface Design. It also lists her skills in areas like user research, concept development, prototyping, visual design, and her belief in focusing on the design process to achieve good outcomes.

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    The document provides information about Pranali Valsangkar's experience and qualifications. It includes a summary of her roles as a User Experience Designer and Senior Interaction Designer, the projects she has worked on spanning various domains like finance, travel, e-commerce, and her education background which includes a post graduate diploma in Information and Interface Design. It also lists her skills in areas like user research, concept development, prototyping, visual design, and her belief in focusing on the design process to achieve good outcomes.

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    Wireframe

    Persona

    Style guide

    Pranali Valsangkar
    User Experience Designer

    Interaction table
    User - Interview
    Client Interaction

    Feedback and Testing

    Prototype
    Stakeholder

    User Study

    Concepts
    Analysis
    Focus-group

    Site Audit
    Flowchart
    Scenario

    Information architecture

    Info-Graphics

    Fiserv Global Services India


    Lead Usability Analyst

    2012

    Design For Use, Gurgaon

    Senior Interaction Designer


    2011

    Mobile Research Lab


    Research Intern

    2010

    National Institute of Design

    Information and Interface Design


    (Post Graduate Diploma in Design)
    2008

    Geodesic Systems
    Senior Software Engineer

    2004

    Electronics Engineering

    Thadomal Shahani Engineering college


    (Bachelor of Engineering)

    4 years of design experience, 4 years of development


    experience with exposure of various domains,
    platforms, users and various cultures.
    I have travelled to various cities from few different
    countries. I am an explorer. I am always on lookout for
    happiness, surprises and new knowledge.
    As a designer I strongly believe in the process. If the
    process is correct and if I enjoy it then I know that I
    never have to worry about the final outcome.

    Fiserv GS India

    Prototype

    Lead Usability Analyst

    In limited span of time spent with


    Fiserv GS UXCoE team I got to work
    on couple of different domains. I find
    the applications in finance domain
    complex, crucial but at the same time
    exciting and challenging to work on.

    Responsive web design

    2012

    Corrilian

    Proposal, RWD, Online banking

    This was a proactive effort involved


    in creating responsive layout for the
    Fiserv online banking platform.
    In process we explored various ways
    of site navigation as well as
    information presentation. Though a
    project is still in proposal phase

    Visual
    2

    InfoPortal 2.2

    Prototype

    2013

    Information portal for CSR


    Offshore design engagement, Biller solution

    It is an information portal
    application for customer service
    representatives to access the
    consumer information generated
    by various biller applications about
    transactions and other account
    details.
    The objective is to seamlessly
    integrate 5 information portals for 5
    different biller solutions into one
    with all the information, features
    and functionality.

    Concepts and analysis

    UX efforts anr being utilized to


    bring in the consistency and
    standardization. At the same the
    Interface is being converted to
    modular and Wireframing
    fluid layout.

    HR management software
    Admin user Configuration GUI
    Completely configurable HR Software for managing HR processes
    anytime, anywhere. From Recruitment to Retirement

    Energy Trading client

    SEO

    premier software solution provider for energy


    transactions and risk management which enables
    clients to handle any aspect of the energy
    commodities lifecycle around the world.

    Usability revamp of a search engine


    optimization tool. The tool enabled users to
    analyze the website traffic from search
    engines and social sites.

    Design For Use

    Senior Interaction Designer


    Worked on around 10 major
    projects for 6 clients. Main
    responsibility was to understand
    client vision, tap down user
    requirements and convert that
    information in to an interface.
    The information cloud on left lists
    down key domains for the projects.
    Got a chance to work personally
    with various local clients as well as
    to work onsite with clients based
    out of Texas and California.

    Travel Portal

    Holiday packages Travel deals


    User experience design for the consumers holiday booking
    experience

    e-Commerce Websites
    Online retail for traditional Indian women wear

    This was an Indian retail store targeted towards customers from the US
    and UK geography who does not have ready access to the designer
    traditional cloths

    US based Organic food online retail portal


    US based Premium diamond jewelry online retail
    4

    SEO analytics
    SEO

    Wireframe
    SEO tool

    SEO tool

    2012

    Regular onsite client discussions, concepts,


    user interviews, stakeholder interviews, task
    centric design

    The snapshot presents the visual


    moodboard created for a SEO tool.

    Moodboard, widgets

    The design solution was proposed


    towards making website intuitive,
    cleaner, lighter and crisp for the
    target users to focus on the core
    activity of SEO analysis.

    Travel Portal

    2012

    Holiday, travel deals portal


    Regular onsite client discussions, concepts,
    user interviews, experience design

    Lead the efforts for client interaction,


    project planning and execution. We
    were team of 3 interaction designers
    and one visual designer.
    Task was to redesign the user
    experience of a travel holiday
    package research and online
    booking.

    Concepts

    More stress was given on fetching


    out innovative concepts as per the
    user requirements.
    5

    Energy trading client

    2011

    Enterprise application

    Offshore design engagement, usability fix,


    patterns generation, standardization,
    interaction patterns, style guide

    Energy trading application is used by


    traders and business portfolio
    managers to efficiently manage the
    commodity trades in energy domain.
    This was a legacy application with a
    very primitive GUI. The application
    was made up of information heavy
    and task heavy interface pages.
    Exercise was to re architect the
    information and the screen layout
    and come up with a more simpler
    interface.

    Visual prototype for one of the trading form

    Freelance projects

    Independent Design Consultant

    Hindi Film news and


    media portal

    2010

    Infotainment portal

    Android, iOS, RIM OS, screen architecture

    Brief was to design a mobile platform


    interface for India's premier Bollywood
    portal(Hindi film information) which is a
    prime source of the industry media (
    celebrity news, movie releases,
    videos, songs, wallpaper, events and
    updates )

    iPhone App

    Android App

    The task was to design native mobile


    application to mimic the website and
    deliver all the information and media
    more efficiently.
    Major difference was brought in to the
    content organization and navigation.
    Visit Product page

    User research
    Regions covered

    Research Associate

    Mobile phone usage


    Indian service industry

    2010

    Field research, 8 weeks

    On field research, research documentation

    This was an open ended research


    which was targeted towards
    gathering firsthand data on mobile
    usage in the macro service industry
    of India. The deliverable was a
    report highlighting various
    innovation opportunity areas.
    - IBM research lab

    Research data analysis

    Media consumption
    Tier3 cities of India

    2009

    Field research, 4 weeks

    Long Interview, Participant Observation,


    Focus Group, Self awareness

    Objective of this research


    assignment was to understand the
    methodological framework of
    Phenomenological research; to
    learn and practice research skills
    (Long Interview, Participant
    Observation, Focus Group
    Interviewing and Systematic Self
    Observation)
    - HP research lab
    08

    Mobile research lab

    User study

    Research Intern
    Funding: Nokia Research
    Indic script input for
    mobile phones

    2010

    Graduation project

    Mobile phone interface, multimodal


    interaction, Indian consumer, defining
    research statement, solution and user testing.

    This research project is an effort to


    provide solution that
    accommodates the requirements of
    the diverse scripts practiced for
    writing, in India; while typing on a
    portable device like mobile phone.

    Research and study


    27 Users were studied from wide
    user base, in order to understand
    the usage of native language in
    day to day life transactions
    practiced for reading and writing
    purpose.

    Structure of devanagiri script


    9

    Concept

    Basic writing practices and script


    structure was converted into the
    interaction model.
    The interaction model was then
    prototyped and tested using
    various input modalities.
    Innovative interaction methods
    were proposed.

    Prototypes
    Arduino

    Mercury tilt sensor

    Mercury tilt sensor

    Accelerometer

    Mac book Accelerometer

    Wiimote

    Wooden prototype

    Joystick

    Lipi Desktop interface

    The core concept was prototyped


    and tested for different input
    modalities like
    Gesture control
    Tangible interface
    Touchscreen interface
    Handwriting recognition

    10

    Student projects

    Classroom and Industry Projects.


    Navigational interface
    for a tablet

    2009

    Industry project (concept)

    Cloud computing, new age devices,


    smart interface for a smart tablet

    The task was to come up with a


    innovative navigation structure for
    a two touch cloud computing
    tablet; bundled with new age
    technology sensors.

    11

    Ek cup chai
    (one cup of tea)

    2009

    Student project

    Information design, data graphics,

    Depiction of the process of tea


    making as an Information
    Graphic. It explains the recipe of
    4 different types of tea in 4
    quadrants of the circle. The blue
    color is water content and white
    is milk. Red line represents heat.
    The solid lines are mandatory
    steps where in the dotted ones
    are optional.

    Camp participant
    Info-graphics

    2009

    Tactical Technology Collective


    Information design, data graphics,

    140 participants from 39 countries


    participated in the camp. This
    map displays the participant
    strength from each country. The
    brief was to present the
    participant information in nonobvious manner which will reveal
    some new knowledge about the
    country.

    12

    iPhone radio

    2008

    Industry project

    iOs, innovation, teenage users

    Interface for a iPhone internet


    radio application which aims to
    engage youngsters and help them
    explore the world of online music
    streaming.
    It was a team project where in 3
    designers worked together to
    define the system architecture,
    interactions and innovative
    interactions.

    Concepts
    Wireframes

    13

    Processing coding and arduino


    prototyping

    Physical computing
    Physical Prototyping

    Electronic music

    2008

    Student project

    Chuck, sensor based music generation,


    digital music generation

    Got introduced to the world of digital


    music creation.
    - Ajay Kapur and Curtis Bahn

    Physical computing

    2008

    Student project

    Arduino, processing, wiring, physical


    prototyping, electronic music

    Game prototype

    Objective was to get an overview of


    the world of physical computing.
    Gaining hands on experience of the
    interactive functional prototypes for
    the tactile interfaces.
    - Yashas Shetty

    14

    Geodesic Limited
    Senior Software Engineer

    Mobile GUI development, J2ME, .Net

    Java Interface development custom API

    User interface development 2007-08


    and management
    Lead team of 6 developers
    2 product interfaces on all
    platforms
    4 different platforms.
    symbian, java, UIQ and
    blackberry platform.
    Own API design and
    development.
    Windows mobile
    Implemented network layer
    for one messaging protocol
    for windows mobile.
    Mobile messenger and rich
    data sharing application
    (bluetooth, wifi)

    Blackberry Interface development

    Windows application
    Data sync software
    Windows-windows mobile
    Desktop treading client Sharekhan.

    2006

    2004-05

    15

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    Enthusiast
    Photography, clay model making, travelling

    As a person I am nature lover and nature driven. I am


    always ready to learn new things and explore new
    places. I love to travel and capture the memories. I love
    to work with clay. Its a very flexible material to work
    with. It provides complete freedom of thinking.

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