Vinayak Bhandare

Pune, India

Work Experience

Wow Labz

Experience Design Leader

It’s a thought leadership role, shaping up design vision, setting up end-to-end design cycle for better quality output, working with different clients to understand the expectation and setting up the scope of a project — building and nurturing good client working relationships. Advance a culture of innovation and mentor the team to create world-class digital experiences.
April 2020 - Present India

Invision

Design Leadership Forum Member

The mission is to advance the practice of design leadership by fostering a community where the world’s best can learn from one another. We strive to make the Forum inclusive and relevant to those confronting the challenges of leading design teams.
September 2018 - Present Washington, United States

Nasscom

Senior Design Lead | NASSCOM Design4India

It’s a leadership role, responsible for setting up design vision, principles, and guidelines for the quality output for all creative work; adopting a ‘hands-on’ approach when required to help the team with concept development; striving for continuous improvement and excellence; mentoring, developing and coaching the team; creating an inspiring and positive culture; provide quality control over design outputs and production.
June 2018 - March 2020 India

John Deere

Advance UX Design Intern

At Asia Technology Innovation Center, I'm responsible for to understand business requirements and any technical limitations, conceiving and conducting research. Translating them into the process to make a better product for intended target users.
January 2018 - April 2018 India

IIT Guwahati

UX Design Intern

Worked at UE & HCI Lab, Department of Design at IIT Guwahati in the the area of: "User Interface for IOT Enabled Smart Learning Devices used in Electronics Laboratory Sessions".
December 2016 - January 2017 India

Nasscom

UX Design Intern | NASSCOM Design4India

Responsible for re-imagining the official website. Ideating, designing, prototyping and implementing concepts for a complete overhaul of the overall functioning of the website. Researching and formulating framework for the official website of DESIGN4INDIA and Design Awards encompassing design thinking, system design, strategy design and behavioral design. Creating social media assets for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram.
June 2017 - July 2017 India

Wow Labz

UI/UX Designer

Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with stakeholders. Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows, sitemaps and designing user interfaces.
June 2014 - June 2016 India

DesignDay

Visual Communication Designer | Volunteer

Crafting creative process that combines the visual arts and technology to communicate ideas as well as help design community to growth by co-creating design meetups every month.

Mission:
- Inspire through great design stories
- Impart great skills and techniques
- Create ideas / products / innovations
August 2014 - October 2016 India

HeadStart Network Foundation

National Design Lead | Volunteer

Developing and managing all aspects of design and creative output. It's a leadership role managing across 23+ cities, with accountability for online and offline design output and display success of the design and creative department.
June 2014 - July 2016 India

Yellow-Lemon Productions

Chief Visual Designer | Volunteer

Developing and managing all aspects of design and creative output. It's a leadership role, with accountability for online and offline design output and display success of the design and creative department.
September 2014 - August 2015 India

Aroha Media Pvt. Ltd.

Story Board Artist & Graphic Designer

Activities performed such as: 2D Animation, Concept Art, Character Design, Illustration, Story-boarding, Visual Design.

May 2013 - December 2013 India

Idea - Experience - Design

Visual Designer Assistant | Freelancer

Worked with Pramod Riswadkar. Activities performed such as: Brand Identity Design, Concept Art, Calligraphy, Illustration, Visual Communication Design.

idea - design - experience means design that improves to makes things better by helping people and organisations in business, public services, education, and government understand design and use it effectively as part of their strategy.
2011 - India

Education

MIT Institute Of Design

Masters of Design

UX Design | Indusrial Design
July 2016 - Present India

Bharti Vidhyapeeth Collage Of Fine Arts, Pune (IND.)

B.F.A. (Bachelor in Fine Arts)

Specialization : Applied Arts | Illustration- Advertising
2014 Pune, India

Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune (IND.)

G.D. Arts. (Govt. Diploma in Arts)

Specialization : Applied Arts | Illustration- Advertising
2009 - 2013 Pune, India

Languages

English (Fluent),
Marathi (Fluent),
Hindi (Fluent),

Awards

Vega Digital Awards 2017

Centauri Winner

2017

Uxplorer Awards 2017

BRONZE award in Uxplorer Awards 2017

2017

Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2017

ADAA 2017 Semifinalist | Commercial - Web / App / Game Design

2017

Moderator - Wow Labz UXRoundtable | MAY 2016

2016

Moderator - Wow Labz UXRoundtable | APR 2016

2016

Moderator - Wow Labz UXRoundtable | MAR 2016

2016

Moderator - Wow Labz UXRoundtable | JAN 2016

2016

Moderator - Wow Labz UXRoundtable | DEC 2015

2015

Moderator - Wow Labz UXRoundtable | NOV 2015

2015

KJET Spiritua 2013

Work Appreciation - Visual Communication Design

2013

KJ Youth Fest 2013

Work Appreciation - Visual Communication Design

2013

SAEINDIA KJ COLLEGIATE CLUB

Work Appreciation - Visual Communication Design

2013

Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Animate, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro , Adobe XD, Axure, Balsamiq, Coral Graphics Suite, InVision, Marvel, Power Director, Sketch, UXPin, Video Pad,

Design Knowledge:

Design Thinking
User Research
Research Analysis
User Centered Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Human Factors/Ergonomics
Design Management
Usability Engineering
Creativity & Innovation
System Analysis & Information Design
Interaction Design
Communication Design & Illustration
Brand Identity Design
Calligraphy
Typography
Concept Art
2D Animation
Motion Graphics