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Pratyush Tewari

Design visionary and technologist

New York

About


Pratyush is a seasoned product design lead based out of New York. Over the last 15 years, he has helped startups and large corporations build products that delight customers and led design teams to effectively use good design practices that permeate organizations. Pratyush thrives on cross-functional collaboration, seamlessly aligning teams across engineering, product management, and design.



Work Experience


2023 — Now

Head of UX Design

Blue Book Services

New York (remote)

Spearheading a comprehensive upgrade of a 120 year old brand.

Managing the modernization of an outdated design and tech stack with a lean budget, transforming overall UX and brand architecture to position company for accelerated growth



2021 — 2023

Lead Platform Designer / Manager

View The Space

New York

Led the design strategy to converge six disparate products into a single platform

Created a single platform to serve multiple personas and functions for the commercial real estate industry

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  • Partnered with five product heads to champion a cross-product vision to transition disparate applications over to a unified platform
  • Enabled VTS customers to have a unified seamless experience and achieve company’s long term strategic objectives by aligned the respective design squads to a single platform
  • Managed the platform UX team and led the creation of a new enterprise design system
  • Leveled up the design operation efficiency and UX maturity and reduced component redundancy by 6x
  • Mentored and educated other designers on interaction patterns, design system foundations, accessibility design and design principles
  • Enabled cross-pollination of ideas among 20+ designers across different squads to collaborate and contribute to a single repository of design patterns and components.
  • Implemented a governance model to ensure quality and shared ownership
  • Standardized the design language for the company, implemented scalable and efficient design processes, removed the need to spec designs for engineering handover
  • Created company wide accessibility standards and mentored designers, engineers and QA on best-practices


2018 — 2021

VP, User Experience Design Lead

JPMorgan Chase

New York

Empowered 200+ designers to integrate into a new organization wide design system

Led the UX design and development of a new, enterprise-wide Manhattan Design System

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  • Managed services, tools and workflows that automated the creation of new design patterns, and reduced delivery time of specs to Engineering by 50%
  • Partnered with multiple verticals and sub-brands across the organization and rallied 200+ designers to contribute to and adopt the new design system into their products
  • Co-authored the foundational token system for the design system components and automated the discovery and distribution of the tokens to both design and dev platforms
  • Mentored various designers and engineers on assistive technologies and championed the WCAG standard in the organization. Facilitated negotiations between Engineering and Design to re-imagine solutions without compromising on accessibility

2014 — 2018

Senior UI/UX Designer and Engineer

Vidyo

Hackensack

Enabled enterprises to create custom communication platforms

Led the design and development of Vidyo Connect - a customizable platform for enterprise video conferencing

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  • Partnered with high-profile clients to implement and deploy Vidyo Connect, the latest video-communication platform to their network, globally
  • Increased the efficiency of the front-end stack to increase the number of participants in a video conference by 400%
  • Designed the UX for Vidyo Connect that redefined the company’s product strategy
  • Co-Created a new web UI framework and partnered with the SDK team to enhance the existing client application into a highly customizable communication platform and enabled clients to customize features to fit individual needs
  • Big Wins:
    • Logged more than 3 Billion minutes of talk time and over 150 Million conference calls in just 2 years and became the largest private video conferencing platform in 2020
    • 140% increase in calls duration, 180% increase in meetings and 280% increase in direct calls on the new platform, directly attributed to improvement in UX


2009 — 2013

Program Analyst

Goldman Sachs

Bangalore

Equipped clients to customize and create their own reports

Led the development of Goldman Sachs web portal for reporting derivative securities and expanded the web portal development knowledge base from NYC to India and Southeast Asia offices

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  • Led the front-end development of the self-service custom reporting tool for derivative customers
  • Created a new entitlement model and reduced user interactions by a factor of 12. Developed a regression suite that can record and replay user actions automatically using selenium, cutting down the UI regression testing time by 80%

Education


2014

Masters of Human-Computer Interaction

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA


2009

Bachelor of Technology

Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology

Allahabad, India


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Pratyush Tewari
Design visionary and technologist
ptewari.com

A seasoned design-technologist with over 15 years experience in building delightful products, leading design teams and promoting good design practices resulting in seamless collaboration between engineering, product, & design.