Gaurang Gupta

About Gaurang Gupta

I design digital artefacts, over the last nine years with my enterprising spirit I have been associated with numerous startups & product companies across Finance, Retail, Healthcare, Hospitality and Media. Before joining Microsoft, I was working on a banking product, helping bank users to invest better for tax saving purpose with an AI/ML enabled chatbot, The solution is now under Axis bank innovation labs. In the year 2016, one of my gig i.e Showuphotel was selected by Google for its launchpad program. I have also a paper published by ACM, titled Pulse -\"Tangible touch\", It was selected for the presentation at the 12th Mobile HCI conference held in Lisbon.

Experience

1. Senior Design Manager

   Microsoft

   Jan 2018 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading the Search feature area, redesigned search offering in Teams such as SERP, autosuggest and other feature areas. Also driving One Microsoft - search coherence effort, working across with different teams in Microsoft office 365.

Education

• National Institute of Fashion Technology India

  Bftech, Fashion and Information technology

  2004 — 2008

• National Institute of Design

  Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Usability Testing
• Creative Strategy
• Heuristic Evaluation
• Design Thinking
• Usability Engineering
• Ideation
• Mobile Devices
• Information Design
• Card Sorting
• Human Computer Interaction
• Wire Framing
• Paper Prototyping
• Graphic Design
• Branding & Identity
• Information Architecture
• User Research
• Mobile Design
• Iterative Design
• Design
• Concept Development
• Interaction Design
• Product Design
• Design Strategy
• User Experience Design
• User-Centered Design
• Prototype
• Persona
• Experience Design
• Mobile Applications
• Typography
• Usability
• Service Design
• Prototyping
• User Interface Design
• Wireframes
• Human-Computer Interaction
• User Experience
• Visual Design
• Visual Communication
• Ethnography