Ashutosh Kumar
Principal Interaction Designer , Yahoo!
A seasoned practitioner of “user experience” with 11 years of consulting experience for clients Fortune 500. He holds an M.Des. from IIT Mumbai, after being trained as an architect. He is an expert in managing end-to-end user experience for large enterprise applications in a wide spectrum which contains digital advertizing, corporate banking, finance, international trade, medical and education domains. His key strength lies in managing global & multi-disciplinary teams across business, design and UI technology to identify UX gaps, analyze UI challenges, and design cutting edge user experience for large enterprise applications. He evangelizes “user centered design” and employs it in agile software development with equal dexterity. He has a penchant for empirical research based UX patterns with equal sensitivity to visual design and front end technology to achieve futuristic yet practical user experience across various devices. He has a couple of cutting edge UX research papers and an interaction design patent to his credit as well.