Industrail design — Bangalore, India
SUMMARY
9 years of extensive experience in the following areas:
1. Global Exposure in Usability research and analysis
2. Human Factors considerations in product design
3. Industrial Design Styling
4. User Interface Design
TOOLS
Freehand Sketching including executing sketches in Autodesk Sketchbook Pro Sketch book designer.3D CAD Skills in Solid works 2012, Rhino 4, Keyshot 2.2D renderings in CorelDraw X5, Photoshop CS5
EXPERIENCE:
HCL Technologies, India. Sept 2010-current
HCL focuses on innovation and value creation by offering integrated portfolio of services in Design, engineering and R&D services. HCL has customers in various verticals like Automotive & Transportation, Consumer electronics, Aeronautics and Medical appliance
Position: Sr. Technical lead Industrial Design
Role:
• Scope of work and project proposals preparation
• Writing industrial design brief.
• Requirement capture with marketing and technical team
• Assisting in preparation of research guides and questionnaire
• Primary research with HealthCare Practitioners
• Secondary research on Current Technology available
• Analysis and conclusions of the research data
• Visualization of directions based on the conclusion
• Act as liaison between various stage of product development in multidiscipline environment and developing vender network
• Resource management
• Present concepts/project to clients
• Overseeing the downstream development of the designs
Projects:
Design and development of vigilance camera, laparoscopic medical devices, home appliances, new age internet devices.
• Market Research (primary and secondary) projects to understand potential market for a medical products (minimally invasive surgical equipments and health monitoring systems) in an urban life scenario, through HealthCare Practitioners (HCPs ), care givers and patients
Axiom Consulting Bangalore, India. Apr 2005 – Sept 2010
Axiom works with customers across verticals including automotive & transportation, consumer products, consumer electronics and appliances - with clients ranging from R&D labs to Fortune 50 corporations.
Position: Design Lead
Role:
• Conducted user research
• Conducted design workshops for brainstorming sessions
• Writing industrial design brief.
• Act as liaison between various stage of product development in multidiscipline environment
• Resource management
• Present concepts/project to clients
• Overseeing the downstream development of the designs
• Interacted with vendors
Projects: Design and development of wearable device, electronic product, home appliances, computer peripherals, dispensers, accessory design for motor bikes, packaging for FMCG, UI design for portable hand held devices, new age internet devices, service design, strategic design for new business development and product graphic and user experience design in interface design . Projects are done for Indian and overseas client.
Tessaract Design. Bangalore, India.(now idiom design) Jun2004 – Mar 2005
Position: Industrial Design consultant
• Conducted user research
• Interacted with vendors
• Presented concepts to clients
• Co-ordinate prototyping
Projects: Design and development of product design, retail space treatment, modular retail fixture, kiosk, pop, technical illustrations and packaging.
TI cycles of India, Chennai, India. Oct 2003 – Jun 2004
Position: Design Intern
Projects: Design and development of bicycle in Mountain Terrain Bike category.
• Conducted Market research with marketing group
• Presented concepts to
• Co-ordinate prototype
Name: Navin A N
Place : Bangalore