Prabhagaran Rakkiappan

Manager UX design & Research @ Uniphore

Bangalore, India
A Communication Designer /chennaite /Typography enthusiast+Tamil type Designer
/Metal Sculptor /Adrenalie junkie +Endurance Cyclist/Traveler /now
works as GameDesigner.

Work Experience

Tekoin

Design Manager

April 2022 - January 2024 India

PayPal

Sr Product Designer & Ux Researcher

India

ZOHO Corp

Product Designer | UX Researcher

Lead Product Designer | UX Researcher for Site24x7 (Cloud Manager) : a cloud infrastructure monitoring platform by Zoho for cloud-computing services like Amazon web Services and Azure cloud.

Site24x7 offers all-in-one cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations. Monitor the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices.

Collaborate with Product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience.

Translate complex product requirements into easy and intuitive user flows.

Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.

Create responsive UIs that engage customers across devices.

Identify overarching interaction patterns to ensure a consistent brand and user experience.

Break a long-term user experience vision down into concrete steps for agile development.

Explain your ideas, designs and user experience best practices in order to successfully convince, motivate and inspire stakeholders.

Prototype & validate new concepts together with product and engineers.

Work with engineering teams to follow up the implementation of each feature.

Perform usability testing to constantly improve existing tools.
September 2016 - December 2017 India

ZOHO Corp

Sr. Marketing Designer

Sr. Marketing Designer for Site24x7: a cloud infrastructure monitoring platform by Zoho.

Site24x7 offers all-in-one cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations. Monitor the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices.

Conceptualize and implement creative solutions and new ideas to project the company’s corporate brand identity in marketing communications and Social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, e-mailers and blogs.

Conceptualize new ideas and design artwork for Events that we Attend and all printed and digital marketing materials to meet company’s objectives including brochures, pamphlets, print ads, etc.

Ensure all marketing collaterals are updated consistently and appropriately placed to maintain the right brand image of the company.

Co-ordinating finished artwork for print production and online medium including media implementations.

Ensure timely delivery of design & artwork and strict adherence to work schedules.

Ideation and co-ordinating of communication via motion graphics creatives to help the marketing team or the product team generate an epic video for delivery

Helping UI team for creating Visual design and UI guidelines
March 2015 - December 2017 India

Bally Technologies

Graphic Designer

October 2011 - June 2014 India

Tinderbox Events

Junior Designer

December 2008 - September 2011 Chennai, India

Uniphore

Managing UX Design & Research @Uniphore

January 2024 - Present Bangalore, India

Education

Mohammed Sathak College Of Arts And Science

B.Sc. Visual Communication

June 2004 - July 2007 Chennai, India

Languages

Tamil (Native),
English (Fluent),

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Muse, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier Pro,