About Me

I'm Harrivin Nachiappan, a UX Designer from UF who loves designing friendly and delightful products as well as developing them. You can find out more about me below.

Education I have pursued

M.S. in Digital Arts and Sciences

University of Florida, Gainesville
Graduated - Dec, 2017

B.E. in Computer Science

Anna University, Chennai
Graduated - Nov, 2012

Skills I possess

Research Phase

User Research | Personas & User Stories | Journey Mapping | Affinity Diagramming

Design Phase

User Flows | Sketching | Wireframing | Prototyping

Test Phase

Usability Testing | Research Analysis

Tools I use

Design Phase

Sketch | XD | Illustrator | Photoshop | Zeplin

Prototyping Phase

Invision | Balsamiq

Development Phase

HTML | CSS | Sass | Javascript

Courses I have taken

User Experience Design
Human Computer Interaction
Virtual Reality
Human Centered Computer Graphics
Multimedia Interfaces
AI for Computer Games
Computer Science Education Research

Places You can find me

You can find me at linkedIn or email me at harrivin@ufl.edu

Experiences I have had

Quality Assurance Analyst, Tata Consultancy Services - Citi

Sept 2018 - Mar 2019

Led multiple journey teams in the fraud detection organization

  • Automation and Manual Testing of Card Replacement, Disputes and Profiles and Preferences Journey Teams
  • Suggested features that lead to easier RCA's of Production Issues
  • Instrumental in creating the test framework and adequate documentation that would be applicable to multiple teams.
Research Volunteer, University of Florida

Apr 2018 - Sept 2018

Research, Development and Testing of a VR Game that develops empathy in Children

  • Front-End Development in Unreal Engine, created assets for the game
  • Included VR Concepts in the game that would help build empathy in Children
  • Tested the game with young children , noticed their in-game behavior and made changes to game to make it better.
Digital Assosciate, Amazon Development Centre India

May 2013 - July 2015

User Testing of Audibooks across different marketplaces and platforms.

  • Manual and Automation Testing of Audible (Audiobooks)
  • Presented the winning idea in the Kindle Comics Hackathon (Audio-Comics)
  • Top performer for multiple quarters in 2014.

Projects I have done

Wallapp
October, 2017

Designed a social media app after researching the current landscape of social networking

  • Researched usage of social apps and the purposes they solve
  • Created personas after identifying target based on research
  • Designed app after several iterations based on user feedback
  • Conducted validation testing followed by SUS Questionnaire (average score 80)
Coding Beats
April, 2017

Designed an interactive experience for novice coders to create music through code

  • Role included designing, developing and scrum master duties
  • Conducted user research to understand the requirements and identify opportunities for the application
  • Shneiderman’s 8 Golden Rules were used to design
  • Student’s t-test, Wilcoxon Signed Rank test (based on IMI Questionnaire) indicated performance as good as competitor
Interesting Finds
March, 2017

Redesigned the Amazon Interesting Finds page

  • Personal project to improve the user experience during the identification of unique and interesting products
  • Studied the importance of typeface selection
  • Usability testing with high fidelity prototype resulted in postive feedback from users familiar with the product
Politicon
October, 2016

Designed political news app for GameOn

  • Role included user research, design (mid-fidelity)
  • Designed for users to follow, discuss current political events
  • Created affinity diagram on data gathered in user research
  • Generalized target users by creating personas, storyboards
  • Iteratively designed a pixel perfect interactive prototype