Ganesh Iyer
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Ganesh Iyer

Startup-focused product designer in Toronto, ON 🇨🇦, He/Him/His

Getting back to building an online presence after all these years

A year ago

About

Award-winning product design generalist with 12+ YOE in building impactful products, systems and teams, especially for B2B/B2B2C startups.

In the last 5 years, I've designed and shipped customer- and user-centred no-code tools, and conversational AI and data-rich systems.

I also excel in setting up lean and diverse product design teams with a culture of high-performance and cross-discipline collaboration.

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Work Experience

2022 — Now

Education

2023 — Now
Remote (Global)

Trading insights with an exciting cohort and learning from industry leaders to -

  • continue growing and learning as a strong IC and design leader
  • build world-class product and design teams
2015 — 2017
Berkeley, CA

I was the design chair of the student body of my school, as well as headed the design efforts for the annual un-conference - InfoCamp - in 2016.

My most memorable experience from this phase of my life was to work with an amazing team on a game (that went on to win an award at CHI 2017) that helps children grasp abstract concepts in mathematics in an engaging, embodied, and collaborative way.

2006 — 2010
Guwahati

I headed the design team for the techno-management festival in held in September 2008. My capstone project was to redesign a musical interface which catered to the need of music enthusiasts interested in publishing home-made music online for others to view, comment and provide feedback on. From the findings of my usability testing, I had proposed how web usability evaluation may need to be tweaked for sites with dynamic and socially-sourced content (Web 2.0), and wrote a book about it.

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