Kulan Gunawardena

Kulan Gunawardena

Senior Product Designer in Greater London, he/him

About

Hi, I’m Kulan! I’m a Senior Product Designer based in London, working in consulting. Over the past five years, I’ve worked on a variety of projects across different industries, helping bring ideas to life from concept to launch.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Senior Product Designer at Capgemini Invent
London
  • Operating as a Lead User Experience (UX) Designer, spearheading design improvements to multiple live products and services based on usability heuristics, user research and data analytics.

  • Re-designed a live service, boosting satisfaction score by 4.6%, completion rate by 2.8%, and digital uptake by 9.7% within 6 months.

  • Led a team in designing, testing, and delivering a high-fidelity prototype for a utility company's internal Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system, leveraging a leading design system. Secured approval from users and senior leadership and successfully handed over the prototype to developers.

  • Tools: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Nunjucks, Figma, FigJam, Mural, and Miro.

2019 — 2022
Consultant at Atkins
Bristol
  • Worked as a consultant for multi-national clients in user-centred design, human factors engineering, and systems engineering projects.

Certifications

2024

Courses: Emerging Patterns in Interface Design, Design Systems and Pattern Libraries, Application Design for Web and Desktop, Visual Design Fundamentals, Mobile User Experience

Education

2015 — 2019
MEng (Hons) in Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering at University of Warwick