Akshay Chauhan
UX Designer
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaProduct Designer with experience in designing products ranging from social event organizing iOS app to scalable enterprise SaaS product.
Specialties:
• Designing interfaces for iOS and web apps
• Building scalable architecture for horizontal products
• Interactive prototyping
• Customer interviews
• Qualitative research
• Usability testing
Products / Apps designed:
• PocketSocial App – Social event organizing app [On iOS App store & Android Marketplace]
• QuoteHanger – Curated quote app [Available on iOS App store]
BCIT Projects
• Mountain Climber – Yelp for hikers [App built during BCIT program]
• Instagram Clone – Self-explanatory [App built during BCIT program]
• 'KnowledgeBox' – Enterprise scalable KMS cloud web app
• Discourse 'Education Course Marketplace '– [School project built on HTML5, PHP, MySQL, JScript]
Apps developed:
• Blurt – Project Discussion app – [School project built on HTML5, PHP, MySQL, JScript]
• Instagram Clone – [School project built on HTML5, PHP, MySQL, JScript]
You can see his work on his website link below – http://akshay.design/
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Specialties:
• Designing interfaces for iOS and web apps
• Building scalable architecture for horizontal products
• Interactive prototyping
• Customer interviews
• Qualitative research
• Usability testing
Products / Apps designed:
• PocketSocial App – Social event organizing app [On iOS App store & Android Marketplace]
• QuoteHanger – Curated quote app [Available on iOS App store]
BCIT Projects
• Mountain Climber – Yelp for hikers [App built during BCIT program]
• Instagram Clone – Self-explanatory [App built during BCIT program]
• 'KnowledgeBox' – Enterprise scalable KMS cloud web app
• Discourse 'Education Course Marketplace '– [School project built on HTML5, PHP, MySQL, JScript]
Apps developed:
• Blurt – Project Discussion app – [School project built on HTML5, PHP, MySQL, JScript]
• Instagram Clone – [School project built on HTML5, PHP, MySQL, JScript]
You can see his work on his website link below – http://akshay.design/
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Work Experience
Vendasta
UX UI Designer
Demand Generation (June–Present)
• Designing and frontend coding on "Vendasta Content Library"
• Worked with marketing team to design and roll out new company website
• Designing component framework for company website following Atomic Design principle
• Creating UI assets on Sketch and Illustrator
Research & Development team (April – May)
• Qualitative research and training documents for a new product
• Building Interactive prototypes using Adobe Experience design.
• Documenting and planning product research
• Designing and frontend coding on "Vendasta Content Library"
• Worked with marketing team to design and roll out new company website
• Designing component framework for company website following Atomic Design principle
• Creating UI assets on Sketch and Illustrator
Research & Development team (April – May)
• Qualitative research and training documents for a new product
• Building Interactive prototypes using Adobe Experience design.
• Documenting and planning product research
April 2016
- September 2017
British Columbia, Canada
Mantra Tech Ventures Pvt. Ltd.
UX Designer
Developed 3 Products / Websites
1. mantragrid.com
2. theserverguy.com
3. KnowledgeBox.io
SaaS Cloud Application
1. mantragrid.com
2. theserverguy.com
3. KnowledgeBox.io
SaaS Cloud Application
August 2012
- February 2014
India
Education
British Columbia Institute Of Technology
Digital Design and Development Diploma
– Communications for New Media
– Information design and User experience
– Presenting and developing brand guidelines
– Print technology and Colour management systems
– Mobile Web Responsive Web Design
– Human Factors and Interface Design
– Web Animation (Principles of Animation and CSS3 Animation)
– Video Audio Production (Adobe Premiere, Audition and Garage Band)
– Web Interaction (HTML5 and CSS3)
– Web Scripting (PHP5, Javascript, MySQLi, MySQL PDO, Jquery, JSON )
– Responsive Web Design
– VFX and Motion Graphics (Adobe After Effects)
– CSS and JS Frameworks (Pure CSS, Bootstrap, AngularJS)
– iPad App design
– Phone App design
– Information design and User experience
– Presenting and developing brand guidelines
– Print technology and Colour management systems
– Mobile Web Responsive Web Design
– Human Factors and Interface Design
– Web Animation (Principles of Animation and CSS3 Animation)
– Video Audio Production (Adobe Premiere, Audition and Garage Band)
– Web Interaction (HTML5 and CSS3)
– Web Scripting (PHP5, Javascript, MySQLi, MySQL PDO, Jquery, JSON )
– Responsive Web Design
– VFX and Motion Graphics (Adobe After Effects)
– CSS and JS Frameworks (Pure CSS, Bootstrap, AngularJS)
– iPad App design
– Phone App design
April 2014
- Present
British Columbia, Canada
Centennial College, Toronto
Art and Design Foundation
June 2007
- March 2008
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Languages
English (Native),
Awards
Skills
Animatics,
Branding,
Cinematography,
Content Strategy,
Content Writing,
CSS,
Human Computer Interaction ,
Information Architecture,
Interaction Design,
Matte Painting,
Photography,
Semantic Web Development,
Stereography,
Storyboarding,
Twitter Bootstrap,
Usability Interviews,
Userflows,
Videography,
Wireframing,
Seminars and Conferences
ANIME FESTIVAL ASIA 2010, Singapore
– Cosplay Photography, Film Screenings, Panasonic Stereo3D filmmaking
MARTIN PARR, Magnum Photos
– Street Photography, Documentary photography
EDWARD CHARNY, Motion Capture Studio, TischAsia, Singapore
– Working of Asia's only Optical MoCap
NOBUAKI DOI–SAN, AnimeCon 2011
– Japanese Animation History, Stop-motion Animation Masterclass, Japanese Pop Culture
PHILIP EDWARD ALEXY, Animator worked on Star Wars, Jumanji, V for Vendetta
– Classical 2D Animation, Live Drawing
LEVI LIM, Nanayang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
– Portfolio presentation, Animatics
– Cosplay Photography, Film Screenings, Panasonic Stereo3D filmmaking
MARTIN PARR, Magnum Photos
– Street Photography, Documentary photography
EDWARD CHARNY, Motion Capture Studio, TischAsia, Singapore
– Working of Asia's only Optical MoCap
NOBUAKI DOI–SAN, AnimeCon 2011
– Japanese Animation History, Stop-motion Animation Masterclass, Japanese Pop Culture
PHILIP EDWARD ALEXY, Animator worked on Star Wars, Jumanji, V for Vendetta
– Classical 2D Animation, Live Drawing
LEVI LIM, Nanayang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
– Portfolio presentation, Animatics
Webinars
COPYWRITING FOR CONVERSION Unbounce & Copyhacker
– Insights into landing page content writing by Ryan Engley and Joanna Wiebe
BEST PRACTICES FOR DIGITAL PUBLISHING
– Webinar on Content architecture and desgining for digital publishing on Inkling for Ipad
Inkling
DESIGNING WEB APPLICATION Nathan Barry
– Basic principles and standard guidleines for designing web applications.
GAMIFICATION Kevin Werbach
– Taking the elements of game thinking and game theory and finding out what makes games engaging.
THE 10 WAYS YOU'RE SCREWING UP YOUR LANDING PAGE Unbounce
– What not do on a landing page webinar by Ryan Engley and Peep Laja
– Insights into landing page content writing by Ryan Engley and Joanna Wiebe
BEST PRACTICES FOR DIGITAL PUBLISHING
– Webinar on Content architecture and desgining for digital publishing on Inkling for Ipad
Inkling
DESIGNING WEB APPLICATION Nathan Barry
– Basic principles and standard guidleines for designing web applications.
GAMIFICATION Kevin Werbach
– Taking the elements of game thinking and game theory and finding out what makes games engaging.
THE 10 WAYS YOU'RE SCREWING UP YOUR LANDING PAGE Unbounce
– What not do on a landing page webinar by Ryan Engley and Peep Laja
Projects
ProductGazette.com May 2017—Present
Podcast coming soon..
Diyux.com May 2013—Present
Curator, content manager
I started my own visual library of UI elements, Micro-interaction elements, visual design and some goof-ups on the Interweb. This I hope will increase people's appreciation about microcopy, and micro interaction elements that are smartly placed to make people go 'Wow.'
Podcast coming soon..
Diyux.com May 2013—Present
Curator, content manager
I started my own visual library of UI elements, Micro-interaction elements, visual design and some goof-ups on the Interweb. This I hope will increase people's appreciation about microcopy, and micro interaction elements that are smartly placed to make people go 'Wow.'
Volunteer
Service Design Hackathon 2015