About

A little bit about me

I'm Amol Chandwadkar, from Nagpur, India. I am a self-taught designer with an engineering mindset and a degree in marketing management. The unique combo made it possible for me go deep in technology like a computer scientist, and also understand people like a social scientist.

With over 13+ years of experience as a digital product designer, I've crafted digital products that simplify complex tasks, making them intuitive, enjoyable, and effective, satisfying both users and business objectives.

Have experience in working with Start-ups, Emerging and established technology companies and various other big brands and enterprise clients across a wide range of industry sectors such as US Healthcare, E-Commerce, Media, Retail, Software and More.

Possess strong leadership, strategic, analytical & technical skills to - streamline, organize and automate processes, information & data, build and scale efficient user experience.

I am currently working as Sr. Product Designer at Evolent International, India

UI/UX Designer Recipe

Ingredients

  • 4 parts Visual Designer
  • 3 parts Interaction designer
  • 2 part Information Architect
  • 1 part Data Visualization Designer
  • 1 part HTML Code
  • 1 part Perfectionist
  • Pinch of UX Evangelist
  • Dash of User Advocate

Directions

  • Mix together Visual designer, Interaction designer, Data Visualization Designer and information architect until thoroughly combined.
  • Add perfectionist and HTML Code and stir just until, well, perfect.
  • Bake in Seven years as a Visual Designer professional, five years as Product Designer and Three years as Consultant.
  • Frost with User Advocate and sprinkle an user experience evangelist until useful, usable and delightful.
  • Enjoy!

Capabilities

User Research

  • Persona Research and Creation
  • User Research Interviews
  • Competitor Analysis and Surveys
  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Usability Testing

User-Centered Design

  • Information Architecture, Sitemaps
  • User Stories, Process Flows
  • Functional UX Specs, Wireframes
  • Interactive Prototypes
  • Mockups, Visual Designs
  • Storyboards, Accessibility Advocate

Methodologies & Development

  • Agile Methodologies: Scrum
  • Jira, Confluence, Asana
  • HTML5, CSS3, Twitter Bootstrap
  • Working knowledge of JavaScript & Angular, React frameworks
  • Design Systems Creation & Management
  • Visual Studio Code, Dreamweaver, Notepad++

Applications & Tools

  • Paper-n-Pencil, whiteboards
  • Axure, Figma ,Balsamiq, InVision
  • Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator
  • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Onenote
  • Tableau, Power BI, Microstrategy

Process

I consider myself as a "full-stack" designer, which means my design involvement starts from an idea upto the working product. My design process involves:

my-ux-process

Experience

How I can make a difference

  • Automate the design tasks
  • Exploring new tools which might useful for team
  • Experimenting with design ideas
  • Sharing knowledge with others
  • Finding right solution for any particular task