Kenneth
Sr Dsgn Mgr @JivaAg in Bangalore, He/His
Work Experience
Working on improving the revenues for smallhold farmers in Indonesia. Currently responsible for the product design team.
I joined as a senior product designer and eventually lead the Merchants product design team. I worked on and oversaw all the merchant facing products like GoBiz app, GoBiz web, GoBiz POS, Midtrans and Moka.
I joined as the first design intern in 2014 and saw the team grow from 4 to 32. I worked on the doctor and clinic facing products like Practo Ray and Practo Partner.
Projects
Responsible for the product design work that happens on this app
Responsible for the merchant facing app which caters to usecases like food and grocery orders, online and offline payments, POS, etc.
Responsible for the clinic-doctor facing product, the Practo Partner app on Android and iOS. Defined guidelines and directed a team of designers working on it between 2015-2017
Speaking
Gojek has teams split across different countries, we've been working remotely before the pandemic. Feby and I spoke about how design and research collaborated across distances using metaphors from a long distance relationship.
Writing
A biweekly newsletter I write about design management and other design stuff
This is an article of our talk titled 'Long distance relationship: How design and research collaborate at Gojek'
A short read on my learnings from my first year as a designer at a startup
Features
A summary writeup of a twitter space a few of us did with Obvious regarding hiring designers
This is an excerpt from my fireside chat with Ownpath in 2021
Quoted:
“I treat the interview process as a reflection of the org. Are they using a generic job description? Are they able to communicate well during the process?” Kenneth D’Souza, Product Designer, Gojek
Education
Information and Interface Design
Electronics and Communications Engineering