Atul Manohar

Product experience design process summarized in 12 Questions

UX Product Design

UX Product Design process; here is an attempt to summarize it in 12 questions. The most challenging part for designers, is how to align your design process to your organization’s development process? I thought of simplifying the design process down to the level of a series of questions. The ownership of these questions and processes […]

Chief Design Officer in an IT Service company…

Some of my thoughts on how that role might play in IT Service companies. IT service companies have matured their offerings in last few decades. Types of the projects they handled have grown from BPO operations for noncritical processes to business critical solutions being delivered. The value the service they are delivering thru consulting for […]

Why do organizations need a Chief Design Officer?

There are a variety of roles in any organization for specific predefined tasks. This enables organizations to engage right skills for specific areas of operations. The Business owners would define the objective of the business they want to pursue. For example; we want to manufacture and sell two-wheelers in the market, or we want to […]

Hands on workshop: Designing Data fueled Applications for enterprises.

I would be conducting a hands on workshop, for UX designers, and product managers, at India HCI 2015. 17th Dec 2015, IIT Guwahati, India. The workshop is aimed at introducing the product design process that is followed in for enterprise IT products. Data is the new Oil: Modern enterprises are interested in leveraging all the data they own, […]

Should UX designers get short course in Product Management?

I was wondering, should UX designers get a short training on Product Management or should the PMs take a short course in UX? Either way, let’s learn the other side of the story for sure. Recently I met up with a Product Manager, who said, I am ‘Done’ with the UX design, now that I […]

Ideation tools workshop (Bangalore Design Day 18 July 2015)

I really enjoyed being with around 45 energetic designers, ‘Bangalore Design day event. It was a great experience talking to a very ‘live’ audience including students and very senior and experienced design professionals working in variety of industries. Enfolding my favorite toolkit, with select case studies, sharing my thoughts and actually working hands on with some […]

Short talk and hands on workshop ‘Ideation in design process’

Friends, They have invited me for a short talk and conducting a hands-on workshop in the Bangalore Design day this Saturday. Ideation in design process Designers from different backgrounds (not just IT) are expected to join. I thought some of you, especially product managers might be interested in joining. Feel free to RSVP on the meetup […]

Ideation for new products

Product companies need to conceptualize new products for either widening their existing markets or offer newer features and functionalities for their existing products. In either of the cases, design strategists, and designers need to dream of the new functionality or the whole product whichever the case might be. Ideation for new products or service There are a variety […]

Android One = will open the next wave of mobile apps adoption in India.

With the introduction of android one phones in India, the market is getting ready for thousands of first time android phone users in India. Especially the second-third tier cities and small town dwellers, professionals who could afford to be connected to the internet now will drastically widen. The following table captures a model of mobile apps adoption […]