Hashim Basheer

with Acquired NDS pay TV service are the Pioneers in Set top Box solutions. Working as a Lead UX Designer, my role is to deliver high fidility designs for application on mobiles, Tablets and TV, which enhances TV viewing experience. The role demands to work closely with engineers and architect to ensure the feasibilty of the product's development. The design has to be presented to the stake holders at various stages to ensure the right alignment of my design with the organization goals User Experience designer with Cisco's Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Web Security Appliances (WSA).

Onsite experience: 3 months in Dallas, TX, USA. VDSI is a part of Verizon Communications Inc., one of the biggest tele-communications companies in the world. Worked as an interaction, interface and visual designer on various design applications for mobile, TV, media phones and web applications.

Frame of Mind is a communication company specializing in film and video production for corporate communications and marketing. I have drected films for BFW and Invensys Rail, and worked as an associate director on films for Cisco, L&T and Audco India Ltd.

on mobile, allows the user to switch the mobile phone to a TV remote, arrange channel favorites and view the photos in the mobile on TV. Involved in idea development, information gathering, wireframing, information architecture, interaction design, interface design, icon and visual design.

Video Everywhere is a cloud based HTML5 functionality offered by Cisco which runs on smartphones, Tablets, PCs Macs, Android sticks, Game consles and Smart TVs eliminating the need of a physical Set top Box. The design is a total revisit on the TV features based on the new medium, user needs and the market demands. Key Design features include Modular entity fields, Timeline accelerators (Apllied for design patent) Community viewing, Social Sharing, Personal Profile, symmetrical Grid guide (Applied for design patent), Promotions etc. Evolution 12 Companion Device Design. - Cisco Systems Inc. "EVo Companion" is an in-home Second screen TV solution for tablets and smartphones. The set top box and smart companion devices are paired using Wifi and the media is shared among them. Key Features are TV Remote, On Demand browsing, Transcoding and its management, Planner and Live TV guide. The challenge of the product was to make the design feasible with minimal meta data available yet make it feel rich. The packaged output of the project included interaction paradigms, Animation Prototypes, Wireframes, Visual Design, Responsive Style guide, branding variations, marketing and promotional videos etc.

Verizon Hub is a 7 inch LCD touch-based VoIP phone. Involved in wireframing, information architecture, interaction and visual design for applications of chalkboard, clock and alarm, email and MMS, recipes, internet radio, real estate and thier widgets. Created visual guidelines for Hub-2. Led a team for interaction and information design for Hub handsets. Entrance Sahayi - iPeopleworks, Coimbatore & Mathrubhumi Education, Kerala. App which helps students to prepare for the Kerala engineering and medical entrance examinations. Easy Window - iPeopleworks, Coimbatore & Ignite Computer Training, Kerala. Windows program which helps functionally- illiterate computer enthusiasts to initiate, organize and function on Windows PC more intuitively. SPARSH : A haptic animation for blinds - Masters Project IDC, IIT Bombay. An audio- tactile animation of a music on a 'pin array' designed for it, which can be "felt" rather than seen. The animation code was written in C++ and mechanized through an Arduino Kit. Studying of eye movements over Malayalam dailies - Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay. Mobile Phone Interface for functionally- illiterate - Human Computer Interaction, Monsoon Course. IIT Bombay. e-mart - Graduate Project Centre for Development of Advance Computing (C-DAC), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Technical Skills Sucesfully completed Usablity workshops on User Centered Analysis, Web and Mobile application Design, Practical Usability Testing and Design for persuasion, Emotion & Trust by Human Factors International Inc., Omnigraffle, Axure, Autodesk After Effects, Premiere Pro. Maya, InDesign, C, Flash, HTML. Roles and Positions * Conducted workshops on "Creative awakening" for Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, Ministry of Youth Affairs, Govt. of India. * Conducted workshop on "Creative learning" in Govt. School, Elappully, Kerala. * Senate Treasurer, College of Engineering, Adoor...