About

Riyaz Shikalgar is a highly skilled UI/UX Designer and Developer with over 12 years of relevant experience. He has a strong background in problem-solving, design thinking, user research, and user personas. Currently, he is working as a User Experience Lead at Zymr, Inc. where he is responsible for creating and implementing designs that make human-computer interactions intuitive, easy, adaptive, consistent, and relevant to the task being performed. He ensures that the design of a system not only satisfies the functionality that the user requires but also considers the emotions that those particular pieces of functionality will invoke. Riyaz is proficient in a wide range of design tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, CorelDraw, Axure, UX Pin, balsamiq, Flash, Dreamweaver, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Layout, AJAX, Java-script, PHP, Wordpress, J-Query, and has expertise in cross-browser support, Bootstrap, Angular JS, Kendo UI Framework & SEO. He has a strong background in creative UI/UX design, and he is skilled in creating wireframes, information architecture, and style guides, producing interface designs, performing usability testing, and validating assumptions using survey techniques and feedback loops. In his previous roles, Riyaz worked as a Senior User Experience Designer at Nihilent and a Lead UI UX Consultant at Virtusa. He has a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Information Technology from Purandar College of Science. Riyaz is a Research Scientist and has experience in AngularJS, test, Javascript, Web, PHP, and Java. He has a proven track record of delivering successful projects, and his expertise in UI/UX design has helped him create interactive solutions that are easy to navigate and aesthetically appealing.