Pranav Resume

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pranav gupta

User Experience & Interaction Designer

OBJECTIVE To pursue a career with a renowned organisation which enables me to design better user experiences and interactions for small screen or handheld devices KEY SKILLS Creative: Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro), Microsoft Visio, MS Office Programming: C/C++, HTML, vvvv, Chuck, Java scripting THEORY & WORKING KNOWLEDGE Photography, Color theory, Ergonomics, GUI principles, Film making, Paper prototyping, Video prototyping, Wireframing, Icon designs, Story boarding, Advertising. WORK EXPERIENCE/ INTERNSHIP March’10 – September’10 Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., User Experience & Interaction Designer As part of my Diploma Project, I designed various applications and features for the mobile domain concerning the Indian market and also proposed important future applications. I also designed a phone for senior citizens with all the hardware, User Interface and the Interactions specifications. Keywords: User Experience, User Research & Analysis, Interaction Design, User Centric Design Process

May’09 – June’09 Rajasthan Patrika Pvt. Ltd., New Media Advertiser Interned with the creative department on projects ranging from innovative advertising, brand communication, event management and the brand promotion through new media. PROJECTS E-Menus Touch based menu systems for the use in restaurants and drive-through’s. Keywords: Interface, Physical and on-screen Interactions, Target Users, Stakeholders, Existing systems, Ergonomics.

Kahaani (Group Project : 2 members) An interactive floor for children which integrates physical play and multimedia to help them develop cognitive skills. Keywords: Interactions, Interface, Child psychology, Physical/Digital play, Ergonomics, Technologies, User Research.

HandyMaps A gesture based application for satellite controlled mapping software for teaching purposes. Keywords: Gestural Interactions, Interface, Stakeholders, User Research, Existing methods, Technology.

Product shoot for effective selling (Group Project: 4 members) Learnt the basics of product shoot in a professional environment. Keywords: Digital photography, Light and shade, Balance, Harmony, Contrast, Mood, Representation.

Food in Bangalore (Group Project: 5 members) Development of an online food portal for services in Bangalore. Keywords: GUI, Paper prototyping, Wireframing, User research.

Visual Ergonomics (Group Project: 2 members) Design of the household microwave panel for illiterates. Keywords: User research, Icon design, Ergonomics.

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WORKSHOPS ATTENDED Icon Design across cultures - Designing icons for Indian scenario Compared icon sets from different nations according to their users and then designed icons for the same things in the Indian context. Also examined the resulting cross cultural differences. Conducted by Deustche Telekom, Germany Cultural probes and generative design tools Alternative design research methodologies for user research known as “Participatory Design”. Conducted by Deustche Telekom, Germany Bodies and Spaces Introduced to New Media in performance arts and how the body interacts with the spaces around itself. Conducted by Attakkalari, Bangalore Electronic Music Came to know the different ways of interacting and generating sounds and music. Also learnt the language Chuck for sound programming. Conducted by Cal Arts, California Photography Learnt about digital and analog photography and got a hint of all the types of photography. Conducted by Rajasthan Patrika Pvt. Ltd. Clay Modeling Made clay models of various objects and learnt the use of the various tools used in it. Conducted by Rajasthan Patrika Pvt. Ltd. EDUCATION National Institute of Design, PG Campus, Gandhinagar Post-Graduate Diploma in New Media Design Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Extension Center(Jaipur) Bachelor in Computer Applications Maheshwari Public School, Jaipur Senior Secondary (Central Board of Secondary Education)

Pursuing June 2008 May 2005

ACHIEVEMENTS Paper for KAHAANI presented at the “International Conference on Designing for Children”, at the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Mumbai in February 2010. Made a short Public Service Advertisement on Books under Film and Video with a group. Worked on Special Effects(Adobe After Effects) and production under it. Member of Interaction Design Association(IxDA) and International Institute of Information Design(IIID). Designed the Logo for a local daily in Rajasthan. Achieved second prize for programming “Kaun Banega Crorepati” in C++ at intra-school level in senior secondary (+2). PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth: 7th Feb, 1988 Marital Status: Single Interests: Volleyball, Table Tennis, Music, Dance, Coin collection, Writing poems.