Harish A S

Experience

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  Hakuna Matata Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2017

  Associate Business Analyst

  • Defined the end-to-end user experience for a sports community app on mobile devices. The app allows sports enthusiasts to connect with each other, to find players with similar interests in their area, facilitating the creation and organisation of local games at various venues.• Assessed clients requirements, conducted gap analysis, translated abstract ideas into initial design concepts using wireframes, and collaborated with UI designers to create the end product.

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  Ideas2IT Technologies

  Aug 2017 - Jun 2019

  UX and Interaction designer

  • Documented business and customer insights in collaboration with project managers during client’s initial kick-off meetings and consecutive follow ups.• Translated client’s user research data, project requirements and business insights into optimal digital experiences.• Demonstrated expertise in designing cross-platform experiences for mobile, web, and tablet devices.• Developed conceptual designs and prototypes, contributing to marketing collateral, sales pitches, and business presentations that secured client conversions.• Bridged the gap between design and cross-functional stakeholders by articulating design decisions and collecting feedbacks for iterative improvements. Show less

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  Coupa Software (Parent company of Opex Analytics and Llamasoft)

  Jul 2019 - Jan 2021

  User Experience Designer

  • Translated product and business insights into practical design solutions that influenced the key logistic decisions for big-ticket clients like Coca-Cola, McDonalds and alike, impacting millions of lives.• Created intuitive design experiences in the product by working closely with the product, business unit and the engineering team.• Discussed product features and studies user requirements to identify overlooked opportunities and unusual patterns compared to typical user behaviours.• Assisted in establishing Team Vizards within the organisation. This small, SWAT-like team supports data scientists with their dashboard projects. We recommend best practices for displaying KPIs, visualizing data, and presenting other important figures to high-value clients.• Recommended good design practices and heuristics evaluation methods to data scientists when creating Tableau dashboards for their separate clients.• Contributed to pre-sale activities, which include comprehensive presentations and developing feature prototypes to demonstrate potential value and benefits of our products to onboarding prospective clients.• Advocated for transitioning from Sketch to Figma, a cloud-based design tool, to facilitate real-time collaboration and rapid prototyping for designers.• Actively participated in design team collaborations to ensure that design initiatives are aligned with business priorities and goals.👨‍💻 Carried out most of the operations under Opex Analytics's business unit even after Llamasoft acquired Opex Analytics during Nov 2019. One year later, Coupa acquired Llamasoft for USD $1.5 billion. Source from WSJ: https://on.wsj.com/3VyQzJA Show less

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  SciSpace

  Feb 2021 - now

  • Designed SciSpace's search experience to allow researchers to compare and analysis multiple scientific publications simultaneously, resulting in over 150,000+ daily search volume.• Conducted product-led growth experiments that resulted in a 35% jump in user conversion rate and increased revenue.• Collaborated on the design of SciSpace Copilot empowering 75,000+ researchers weekly in their workflows using generative AI tech.• Worked with product, business, engineering and marketing teams to create compelling product narratives and design experiences that resonates with target users and business goals.• Advocated post-launch retrospectives to foster learning, enhance efficiency, and elevate team’s performance. Show less • Led design for the first version of SciSpace from ideation to launch — a research platform that has attracted over 4 million researchers worldwide with approximately 50% monthly growth rate (as of March 2024).• Designed the CMS to empower prestigious universities like IIT Madras, IIT Jodhpur, VIT, and many others to manage their institutional research repositories and improve their NIRF ranking. The solution generated over USD $200,000 in revenue.• Ideated and designed SciSpace library which is used by 1.3M+ users with about 50,000+ research files uploaded DoD.• Defined information architecture, streamlined user flows, introduced micro-interactions, conducted extensive design quality and usability audits for several features — both during pre and post-launch to ensure continuous product improvement. Show less

  • Senior Product Designer

    Oct 2022 - now

  • Product Designer

    Feb 2021 - Sept 2022