Ripul Kumar

About Ripul Kumar

Set up design practice for 3 companies — hi-tech startup to a large global corporation Set up user research practice for 2 global corporations Founder of 2 SaaS companies — an ed-tech and a fin-tech Cofounder of a research-led design company, ran profitability for 12 years. Fortune 100 clients like Microsoft, Nokia, Lufthansa, Google, Facebook, Philips, Sony. Passionately teaches, mentors, and guides

Experience

1. Sr Director, Ux Design

   Oracle

   Jul 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Ripul leads the Inventory and Costing design teams within SCM.* Transformed Inventory from desktop to mobile. Inventory operators no longer have to keep physical notes and delay reporting transactions — they are in-situ and instantaneous. Saves millions of productivity dollars.* Mission to redesign entire Inventory and Costing products on Redwood Design System.* Reimagining critical Inventory operations.

Education

• National Institute of Design

  School Leavers Professional Education Program, Product Design

  1991 — 1995

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Executive Program in General Management (EPGM), Management, Innovation & Technology

  2016 — 2017

Skills

• User-Centered Design
• Consulting
• Experience Design
• Ethnography
• Design Thinking
• Design Management
• Card Sorting
• Exceptional Mentor & Coach
• Research Design
• User Interface Design
• Interaction Design
• Product Design
• Creative Entrepreneurship
• Wire Framing
• User Experience Design
• Building Products
• Usability Engineering
• User Experience
• Concept Development
• Persona
• Visual Design
• Service Design
• Strategic Design
• Management
• Teaching
• User Research
• Entrepreneurship
• User Scenarios
• Information Architecture
• Usability
• Strategy
• Human Computer Interaction
• Paper Prototyping
• Concept Generation
• User Interface
• Contextual Inquiry
• Rapid Prototyping
• Human Factors
• Education Software
• Usability Testing