Sukanya Sarkar

Product Designer | Visual Designer

Email sukanya@aynakus.com

Phone 925 391 5169

Web www.aynakus.com

My Love

I create user focused digital experiences

through thoughtfully cognitive, interaction and

visual design principles and tons of empathy.

With several years of experience

conceptualizing work flows, user journeys,

design systems, prototyping, I love every detail

of a product design process. I also love getting

my hands dirty in branding, icons design,

creating info-graphics, illustrations, and

components which involves any front-end

product design!

Education/Training

Cooper U Interaction Design training on

Goal-Directed Design to create products and

services that people love. San Francisco.

Master of Visual Communication, Indian

Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Bachelor of Applied Art, College of Art, New

Delhi.

Skills

Sketch, Balsamiq, Figma, Zeplin, Invision,

Photoshop, AxureRP, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe

XD, Jira, Microsoft Ofﬁce, Eloqua, Marketo

Inter disciplinary communication, design

presentations, prototyping, white-boarding,

paper prototyping, post-its!

Making an authentic cup of Chai

UX UI Design Leader

@ AssetMark, Concord, CA

July 2013 – present

Leading front-end design initiatives by

extensive wire framing, creating hi

ﬁdelity screen designs, prototyping,

creating development ready designs,

and enhancing usability of company’s

primary web based application called

eWealthManager. Collaborating with

stakeholders, C level executives,

technology leaders and developers.

Additionally mentoring design Interns,

junior designers, design consultation

to vendor developers.

Design Consultant

@ Truste, San Francisco, CA

March 2013 - July 2013

Designed brochures, signage and

various collateral, for company's

participation in reputed conferences.

Designed for both print and on-line -

such as emails, banners, digital

advertisement and corporate

presentations.

Senior Visual Designer

@ Accela Government Software, San

Ramon, CA

Sept 2007 – Feb 2013

Led product marketing initiatives in the

areas of product branding, product

campaigns, information graphics, sales

engineering support and product

documentation.

Developed and conducted regular

usability evaluations & focus groups.

Presented outcome of pain points

and suggested improvements to

engineering management.

Led marketing activities for

corporate web design and related

localized sites, designed

brochures, web graphics, data

sheets, trade show giveaways,

signage and posters for corporate

conferences.

Design Consultant

@ Sun Microsystems, Sunnyvale, CA

May 2007 – Sept 2007

Developed visual designs, icon

designs and was a graphic

consultant for the production

version of SunSpace (formerly CE

2.0), the global technical

community @ Sun Microsystems.

Digital Designer

@ Interra IT Inc., San Jose, CA

Feb 2001– May 2007

Provided design consulting to

company's various clientele on

creating engaging visual designs

and intuitive user experience for

the web. Developed HTML

prototypes as ﬁnal deliverable for

various customers.

Managed developers, testers,

freelance designers across

multiple geographic locations in

India and USA along with

signiﬁcant involvement in account

management & project budgets for

client projects.

Responsible for design, site

structure (web navigation), and

daily maintenance of corporate web

site.

Assisted sales initiatives by

designing customized

presentations, analyzed competitor

offerings and redesigned for better

website designs for clients.

Design Specialist

@ Atrenta Inc. San Jose, CA

Jan 2000 – Feb 2001

Designed brochures, signage and

various collateral, for company's

participation in reputed

conferences such as DAC (Design

Automation Conference) and NAB

(National Association of

Broadcasters).

Designed internal and external

marketing campaigns based on a

consistent corporate brand.

Developed icons and visual designs

for engineering team to support

company's products based on

Digital Video Technologies.

WORK EXPERIENCE