Senior Chief Designer - Mobile UX, Samsung Design Delhi at Samsung Electronics

Sanket Magarkar

Milan, Italy

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Sanket Magarkar is a User experience Geek, Design strategist and passionate Designer at core. He enjoys exploring the boundaries of Mobile interactivity for creating delightful moments. He is acquainted to be part of fast-paced team environments with 9+ years of industry experience in global design studios.

Mobile / Tablet UX, Service Design,Sustainable Business models and Radical innovation strategies are the key areas he looks forward to work with.

Specialties: Mobile Interaction Design

- Strategic / Structured planning

- User Research and Insight generation

- Scenario Planning / Persona development

- Concept generation / Storyboarding / Visualization

- Information Architecture, Wireframing, Documentation

- Prototyping

- Design implementation

- Usability Testing

User Experience Strategy

- Horizon Settings

- Trend Mapping (Socio cultural, Market, Technology)

- Design Road-maps

- Value proposition

- Innovation Management (Radical > Incremental)
Education
- Strategic Design Management Product service systems, Sustainable design
  
  Politecnico di Milano
  
  2006 - 2007
  
  Companies worked with: Q-Free, Norway - Intelligent mobility system scenarios, BPT spa, Italy - Brand & Design Strategy, Lorenz, Italy - Brand extension with new product design, Plastitex, Italy - New product-service-communication system, Nardi, Italy - New Design Strategy by formulating a high level vision
- MASTER OF DESIGN Industrial design
  
  IDC, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  
  2003 - 2005
- B.E. Mechanical Engineering
  
  Sardar Patel College of Engineering
  
  1998 - 2002
Experience
- Sr.Chief Designer / Sr. Manager - Mobile Phones User Experience
  
  Samsung Electronics
  
  Mar 2013 - Present (13 years 3 months)
  
  - Leading strategic design initiatives in growing mass markets (India, Africa, Brazil, EU).
  - Heading advanced and commercialization UX teams for Samsung Mobile and Tablets.
  - Goal setting and mentoring 20+ team of passionate and young designers.
- Chief Designer / Manager - Mobile Phones User Experience
  
  Samsung Electronics
  
  Apr 2011 - Feb 2013 (1 year 10 months)
  
  Strategic initiative framework setup: B2B, B2B2C solution Design and Development activities with content / IT Co-partners.
- Lead User Experience Designer
  
  Samsung Electronics
  
  Feb 2008 - Mar 2011 (3 years 1 month)
  
  UX team member, developing mobile applications for SWA market (Plan, execute and manage projects from initial conceptualization, user validation till commercialization)
- Design & Strategy researcher _stage
  
  Philips Design
  
  Sep 2007 - Jan 2008 (4 months)
  
  Global business opportunities at BOP and Strategic design directions : M&C Care (Philips Healthcare)
- Senior design Consultant
  
  Design Incubator, Research & Development Labs Pvt. Ltd., India
  
  Sep 2006 - Oct 2006 (1 month)
  
  Conceptualising product systems for India, Contextual Studies, Product Design and prototype testing.
- Industrial Designer
  
  Larsen & Toubro
  
  Jun 2005 - Aug 2006 (1 year 2 months)
  
  Industrial design and development for a new dispenser range : SPRINT
  Conceptualization of new products and dispenser accessories, Outdoor Payment terminal
- Design Intern
  
  Whirlpool GTEC, Pune, India
  
  Jul 2004 - Jul 2004
  
  Idea clustering and Concept generation :Theme 'Dishwasher design for the European market'.
Awards

Academic Awards in ‘Automobile design’ , ‘Robotics’ competition.
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