9+
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YEARS
PASSION
OF EXPERIENCE
FOR PRODUCTS
Interaction Designer
Nair Vineeth Anand
Crafting meaningful products that users love
Product Manager Yahoo! Inc. Sunnyvale-CA, US
Interaction Designer
Yahoo! Software Development Centre Bangalore, India
+1 408.834.6681 nvineeth2011@yahoo.com
Lead UX Designer
Team Lead
Samsung India Software Operations Bangalore, India
UX Designer
Project Lead
Satyam Computer Services Pvt. Ltd. Pune, India/US
Freelance consultant
Web Design/Animation Mumbai, India
Multimedia Designer
Work
Kathaa Animations Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai, India 1999
2003
2004
2005
2007
Education Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science
Master of Design (M.Des) Visual Communication IDC, IIT Bombay, India
Mumbai University, India
3D Studio Max
Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics Mumbai, India
2009
2011
2014
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PROJECTS Presenting a select set of my work across different domains
Data Insights and Analytics
Interactive Multimedia
Advertising products
Creative Ad experience
Sales tools
Research studies
size represents an approximate volume of work in each of these areas
Data Insights and Analytics
Yahoo! Inc., 2014
CROSS-DEVICE INSIGHTS Highly actionable insights based report aimed at surfacing cross device experience data for advertiser campaigns
Data insights visualization to help business with strategic decisions & campaign planning Direct and simple visualizations aligned with users’ mental model. Augmented with summary string, and interactions designed for clear communication.
Data Insights and Analytics
Yahoo! Inc., 2014
DASHBOARDS & REPORTS Numerous dashboards, and reports designed end-to-end for various businesses, and diverse user groups
Interactive data visualizations, reporting with analytics features for taking quick and informed business decisions From microstrategy based mobile business dashboards to audience data reporting
“ ...Search Sales Dashboard is the #1 tool used by our AM team...the new dashboard realized the vision of the old: to be the daily starting place for a Sales AM... � Customer voice Yahoo! Super Star 2013 nomination
Metaphor graphics based *visualization concept.
*Visual design by a team member
Data Insights and Analytics
Samsung India, 2011
CONNECTED HEALTHCARE An interactive online catalogue, to be used by patients and doctors at Samsung Medical Centre, South Korea
Problem centered approach to visualizing health history Visual representation, and in-context input mechanism aligned with a doctor’s approach to patient health history including natural language based visual query mechanism.
Co-authored a paper exploring narratives and information visualizations Published in ACM (IEEE-BIBM 2011)
Advertising products
Yahoo Inc., 2014
AD CREATIVE BUILDER Simple, scalable and robust display Ads and template builder with personalization support to be used by sales
WYSIWYG interface to help users build-out display creatives easily Leveraging familiar tools, interactions, and simplifying further to support an exhaustive set of advanced features, including custom template creation
Advertising products
Yahoo Inc., 2014
AD CREATIVE BUILDER Simple, scalable and robust display Ads and template builder with personalization support to be used by sales
Explorations, design options Numerous iterations and options exploring multiple interaction options
Sales tools
Yahoo Inc., 2013
PROCESS AUTOMATION Automating a high effort, high impact business process for sales team, for increased productivity and customer impact. Includes complex features such as bulk requests.
Automating quarterly business insights summary presentation Worked closely with business to understand the existing process, and automate the efffort and time taken to generate critical quarterly business presentations
1 year post-release reports indicate a ~80% reduction in time and effort to generate and ďŹ nalize business review decks
Sales tools
Yahoo Inc., 2013
PROCESS AUTOMATION Automating a high effort, high impact business process for sales team, for increased productivity and customer impact. Includes complex features such as bulk requests.
Output presentation (powerpoint & interactive HTML) design; Setting a standard through automation IdentiďŹ ed the most critical sets of slides from a variety of business decks across different types of advertisers. Designed information laying emphasis on visuals and communicating the highlights and opportunities more effectively
Sales tools
Yahoo Inc., 2014
INVENTORY CALENDAR Calendar based inventory log and bookings record with monitoring and editing features
Critical Sales Calendar to supervise Ad bookings across supply Visualized a complex and highly dense sales calendar, by breaking information into multiple levels, and using the familiar mental model of users. Modeled the calendar to include only the most critical information upfront, every other detail is available on demand.
Creative Ad experiences
Yahoo Inc., 2011-14
NEW AD FORMATS Concepts exploring user centered ad-design across devices
Mobile Ad Formats, Video, Search monetization concepts Quick keynote mocks to communicate several ideas to monetize without impacting user experience with the content
Interactive Multimedia
Kathaa Animations, 2004 Freelance, 2005 Satyam Computer Services, 2008
WEBSITE DESIGN Variety of websites & interactive multimedia design from content inventory analysis, requirements gathering to visual design and implementation
Vocational training website for children, to online product catalogues Designed, developed and delivered ash actionscript projects and websites.
Research studies
Samsung India, 2009-11
RURAL INDIA RESEARCH User research studies for various objectives ranging from understanding mobile usage, information spread patterns to healthcare touchpoints
Research to “Productization� Planned and conducted several reserach studies for emerging markets in India. Several product ideas emerged from these which were prototyped on feature phones
Co-authored a paper on mobile usage patterns in rural India Published in IDID 2010, India-HCI
Content2commerce Vision Project 2011
A new approach to product comparisons, leveraging the social network, and other data points on the web to make quick and easy buying decisions.
Miscellaneous
PRODUCT CONCEPTS
ViewMail
Hackday 2013 In landscape mode, email inbox transforms into cards built out of content from the emails, providing a compelling visual experience to users.
*Weather to wear CokeJam
Product idea, 2011 Visualizing the experience of jamming real-time inside Yahoo messenger.
Hack Day 2014
Dress recommendations along with companion text ads within the Yahoo weather app. *visual design by team member
Theme Park App Concept, 2013
Miscellaneous
Storyboarding of the entire App experience around a narrative approach.
STORYBOARDING SCENARIOS AD Storyboard Concept, 2006
New Technology
Visualization of key frames in an Ad ďŹ lm for a leading life insurance provider.
Concept, 2010
Different scenarios, and environments based new technology ideas.
Car Pool Service Concept, 2011
Scenario based storyboards to communicate the use case of availing instant car pool service.
Miscellaneous
ANIMATION DESIGN
3D & 2D Animations
Freelance, Student Projects, 2003-2007 Animated shorts conceptualized and executed in Flash & 3D Studio Max
CREDITS Icons from thenounproject Created by
Max Hancock Created by
Stephen Borengasser Created by
Juan Pablo Bravo Created by
Caue Gottardi Created by
Gayatri
THANKS
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Thomas Le Bas
Nair Vineeth Anand +1 408.834.6681 nvineeth2011@yahoo.com
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Lorena Salagre
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