How UX can help you ? designing iPhone, iPad & Android mobile apps. check if your mobile site is easy to use and fast find out if your e-commerce website design is right for your users verify if your shopping cart checkout process is correct if your users are not completing registration form find what your form labels mean to users find if the information architecture of your web app is correct conduct a usability study  and user research to get actual user insights create user persona that truly represent your target user groups

email: Sameer (at) Chavan .me

Areas of Specialization

• Usability of software and Products interfaces. Expert in Interaction design, HCI, Web design, Cognitive Psychology, Ethnography, Heuristic review, Usability testing, Rapid Prototyping, Humanfactors & Ergonomics.
• User Interaction (UI) Design for Enterprise Applications. Mobile touch screens , Gestures designs, Speech Interaction design.
• Expert in Accessibility ( US 508 Accessibility standards)
• Well familiar with UI Standards and Patterns for Mobile, Web Applications, Rich Java & Desktop Applications
• Conduct UCD Training and workshops
• Design Management , Product management, Requirement gathering, User study and research, and Project management.

Recent activities

• Attended Mobile User Experience conference, London. Nov-2009
• Attended International design research conference, IASDR -SEOUL, Oct 2009

Affiliations

• Founding member & President of UPA Hyderabad
• member of ACM & SIGCHI
• member of UPA US
• member chi-si.org

US & International Patents

• Pending US Patent on UI Design on “Simplifying Interaction With Multiple Applications“ . Filed date: 2007
• Pending International patent on Smart TV filed at http://www.wipo.int/ . Filed date; 7/6/2010

Published Paper & Articles

• Pending US Patent on UI Design.
• Task description for usability testing” published paper for HCII2007, China
• Opportunity for Industrial Engineers in Human Computer Interaction” (Word ) article in theglobaleducator magazine – Sept 2006
• Culture & Usability in Enterprise Applications”(pdf 750kb) paper presentation at IIT Guwahati, – May 2006
• What is HCI” (PDF -448kb) an article published in Indian magazine, “DeveloperIQ” – April 2006
• Standards Based Approach for Software User Interface Design” (PDF – 434 kb) CHI paper presentation at Easy6 conference, Bangalore. – Jan 2006,
• Virtual or Remote Collaboration” ( PDF – 500kb) , a presentation at UPA, MNconference.- Aug 2003
• Product Design- a Presentation at Design conference, pune India – Feb 2004
• Need for Usability / ROI for Usability “ ( PDF – 650 Kb) a presentation at CHI chapter, Pune India – Mar 2003
• Design process- a workshop at KBP College of Engg, Satara, India. – Sept 1999
• Cognitive analysis and chaos theory for Fire rescue. Product design of such system. IIT bombay M.Des final thesis – June1999
• Characters in Bond movies. An M.des special subject presentation on Art and motion pictures- Nov 1998
• Form design in clay. An M.des special subject presentation. – Mar 1998
• Design of spray pond system for max heat transfer. PVPIT final thesis- April 1995

Education

• Master’s in Industrial Design from Industrial Design Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, Mumbai India.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering fromPVP Institute of Technology, Sangli India.
• Masters in Business Administration (MBA) …pursuing

External Training and Workshops attended

• IASRD2009 , Design Researcher conference , Seoul
• Designing for mobile, workshop at Mobile conference , London 2009
• Workshops on HCI & UCD conducted by IIT andHumanfactors
• UPA2006 conference in Denver & UPA chapter meet at Minnesota, USA
• IHCI 2004, Rashmi Sinha’s “Design for strangers”, Easy2005, Easy 2006(Won design contest )

Professional Experience

• Last worked as Chief Interaction Designer and User Researcher for R&D Labs LG Electronics, Seoul, Korea.
• previous assignment- Vice President – User Experience & Design, Info Edge India handling a team of 50 Ux consultants.
• Past- Manager User Experience, Oracle, Hyderabad. Supporting Industry Vertical applications like Higher education, Healthcare, Telcom, Banking / insurance
• 11 yrs of Industry experience.
• Worked at Oracle, UGS, Geometric, MBT, Bajaj Auto, Mahindra, Piaggio Italy.
• Recruit, mentor and manage a multi-disciplinary User Experience team in India & US.
• Evaluate Equipment Vendors & Build one of the finest Usability labs at Oracle, hyderabad, India.

On BBC World TV as a leading Designer from India – 1999

With my car prototype at IDC IIT Mumbai.

Pictures with famous Usability Gurus

Aaron Marcus Jackob Nielson Steve Krug Dee Demulling (UPA chair2006) Nigel Bevan Sameer Chavan and Don Norman at IASRD2009