# Ramprakash Ravichandran > Design Lead at Google Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ramprakash ## Work Experience ### Design Lead @ Google Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States I'm a Design Lead on the HUE Futures team at Google. We sense opportunities, activate teams, and spark bold bets to manifest better futures—enabling innovation across Google's product portfolio. ### Staff Interaction Designer @ Google Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area I worked on products that improved the lives of the Next Billion. I led Design for Kormo Jobs, helping employers hire the best job seekers looking for entry-level jobs. I've also worked on products across the Connectivity space: Datally, helping people save and control mobile data, and Google Station, enabling internet access in 9 countries. ### Senior Interaction Designer, Next Billion Users @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Interaction Designer, Next Billion Users @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Lead UX Advisor @ eGovernments Foundation Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 I advised eGovernments Foundation on product design projects for state-wide municipalities in India. I also conducted UX reviews of their core product portfolio. ### Design Consultant @ ramprakash.in Jan 2007 – Jan 2015 ### Design Consultant @ Novopay Solutions Private Limited Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India I helped design and launch Novopay, a financial technology company in India. From an early stage product to scaling their nationwide retail presence, I led their UX efforts from inception to launch. I witnessed the startup grow into large company working across the financial technology ecosystem. ### Senior Design Strategist @ Khosla Labs Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Bangalore I led UX for a core team of entrepreneurs to generate, design and prototype ideas, and scale them to form successful companies. Core aspects of my role involved driving product strategy, managing stakeholders, and working across the entire design process—field research, interaction and visual design, design implementation and usability testing. ### Design Consultant @ Khosla Labs Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore ### Interaction Designer II @ frog Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore Worked with high profile global clients on cutting edge products and services across Media, Retail, Finance, Telecom and Automotive domains. Collaborated with frog San Francisco, Austin, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Kiev and Johannesburg on inter-studio as well as remote projects. Executed, led and managed projects across different stages of the design process—Discover, Design, Deliver and Deploy, by playing a hybrid role as an Interaction + Visual Designer. Specialized in design for Android and helped teams set benchmarks and standards to create compelling Android apps. ### Interaction Designer – Product UX @ July Systems Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Bangalore Worked on July’s flagship product Mi Studio, which is used to create, manage and administer mobile applications and services across 5 different mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Mobile Web). Being hands-on with the entire design process, I conceptualized product ideas, created and supported interaction and visual designs, and managed design documentation for the organization’s internal products and client projects. Was a part of the strategic technology team to design products and concept prototypes for upcoming platforms such as Windows Phone and MeeGo. Participated in seminars and internal workshops to envisage design for Android. ### Design Consultant and Volunteer @ My Piece of Chennai Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 My Piece of Chennai was an initiative to help improve the civic infrastructure and lifestyles of people living in Chennai (a city in southern India) by making information accessible and transparent. I helped the volunteer team by creating a design process, identity and a pre-launch website. Visit http://mypieceofchennai.com for more info. ### Design Intern @ Hewlett-Packard Labs Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Bangalore As a part of my diploma project at NID, I worked with the “Intuitive Multimodal and Gestural Interaction” team at hp labs aiming to simplify and enhance collaborative music consumption for future computing devices. Conducted field research using design research methods such as contextual inquiry, in-depth interviews and qualitative surveys. ## Education ### Post Graduation in Interaction Design National Institute of Design Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 ### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Anna University Chennai Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 ### Senior Secondary in Computer Science Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 ### Higher Secondary Bala Vidya Mandir Jan 1991 – Jan 2000 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ramprakashr - Portfolio: http://ramprakash.in --- Source: https://flows.cv/ramprakash JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ramprakash/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30