Ankur Parihar

About Ankur Parihar

Always looking for ways to solve complex problems and creating highly functional experiences for people which in turn helping them live better lives. I come from an engineering background and very fortunate to have realised my passion for design early on in my life. I feel design is not just restricted to digital interfaces but there is probably nothing in the world that can not be designed or so to say everything is designed, good or bad but designed. This idea is so powerful and makes one realise the impact one can create by inculcating the design power. Design a chair, an app or your life!I have worked on both, creating service and product experiences. Have been part of large teams and have also worked as a first designer, then building a design team from scratch. I have worked on apps, web, highly technical interfaces, B2B and B2C platforms. I love learning about design and teaching it too. I have worked with organisations with low design maturity and the ones with a very high design maturity. Have closely worked with Users, Junior designer to Top Executives. Developers to Product Managers. Remote to In-person teams.But amongst all of this, always, I have loved problem-solving, after all for which, design exists!

Experience

1. Senior Product Designer

   Microsoft

   Feb 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

  2008 — 2012

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Continuing Education Program, Human Computer Interaction

  2018 — 2018

• Subhash Public Senior Secondary School

  Intermediate, Mathematics

  2006 — 2009

Skills

• Training
• Sketch App
• Information Architecture
• Scrum Master
• Card Sorting
• Visio
• User Interface Design
• Html
• Adobe Illustrator
• User Experience Design
• Axure Rp
• User-Centered Design
• Wireframing
• Interaction Design
• Adobe Photoshop
• Paper Prototyping
• User Experience
• Sap Fiori
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)