About Me
Introduction
My name is Koushiki Pal and I’m passionate about improving the lives of others through design. I’m constantly learning new things everyday and love meeting people who are motivated and unafraid of sharing their ideas with world.
I’am a self taught designer and have learnt a lot of the processes, concepts and theories of UI/UX and product design through attending workshops, reading blogs and applying these to projects in my spare time and at work. I also have completed Google UX Design Course Certification. I am very much a big-picture thinker and enjoy working on products end to end, from ideation all the way to development.
My Awesome Journey
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Course Length : 6 Months
Course Details :
- Follow the design process: empathize with users, define pain points, ideate solutions, create wireframes and prototypes, test and iterate on designs
- UX research, planning research studies, conducting interviews and usability studies, and synthesizing research results
- Apply foundational UX concepts, like user-centered design, accessibility, and equity-focused design
- Create a professional UX portfolio that includes 3 end-to-end projects: a mobile app, a responsive website, and a cross-platform experience
My Work Experience
Cognizant – Process Executive
July 2019 – February 2021
- Develop and implement a research strategy through detailed customer/UX research that aligns with the company’s key design goals and vision for user experience.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to uncover deep insights into user behaviors, needs, and motivations and effectively communicate the data into UX goals.
- Map out user journeys and identify opportunities for enhancing the overall user experience.
- Develop the information architecture and task flows for new features or applications based on research findings.
- Engage in everything from wireframing and storyboarding, prototyping I tools like Figma & Invision to usability testing, A/B testing, user interviews, unmoderated testing, UI testing and user feedback sessions, all while keeping the user’s mindset and needs at the heart of the designs.
My Work Process
Better Design, Better User Experience
The design process involves following four stages.
Understand: Design solves a problem. In order to provide a solution, first I understand the problem. To analyze requirements, I follow industry standard user research methods including contextual and individual interviews, while observing the users in real environment.
Research: Research is the basic key step to design user experience. Here I explore how the outer world is working on such features. I Keep an eye on the latest UI trends, design principles and your existing user experience guidelines. While doing research, start thinking about possible layouts and options to provide the desired experience.
Wireframing & Prototyping: This stage involves UI definition of required feature. Draw paper sketches, white board flows and wireframes to share your ideas with stakeholders. This stage itself is an iterative process. Testing and evaluation of wireframes is part of this stage. Design team builds initial mockups and share with stakeholders to get their input.
Usability Testing: this last stage, the process will iterate itself and depending on the required changes, I may go to previous stages. The process goes on until the desired experience and customer satisfaction is achieved.
Tools I know
These are my favourite designing tools
