Himanshu Bharadwaj

Himanshu Bharadwaj is an experienced design and strategy leader with a passion for creating scalable and empathetic products for startups and large enterprises.

Throughout his career, he has brought three of the world's first successful digital product innovations to life and has assisted over 25 startups in refining, building, and commercializing their ideas.

Himanshu excels at mentoring and scaling teams, having worked with onsite, remote, and offshore teams of up to 20 individuals.

He is the creator of 'Joyful design', a design thinking process that emphasizes creativity and positivity in product development.

With a background in design direction, team building, mentoring, coaching, recruiting, and hiring, Himanshu brings a wealth of skills to any project.

His expertise includes design thinking, UX strategy, product vision, research and testing, branding, and product marketing.

Himanshu's hands-on approach to design and problem-solving encompasses information architecture, wireframes, visual design, design systems, branding, and marketing communication.

He is passionate about creating innovative and complex digital products and services joyfully and without stress.

Himanshu is known for his work in product design, UX research, design thinking workshops, information architecture, wireframes, sketches, flows, and storyboards.

His strategic development skills involve ideation, divergent thinking, systems thinking, AI, design process management, visual design, and testing.

He has experience in managing the creation of websites, mobile apps, applications, services, digital advertising, and branding campaigns.

Customer experience, service design, interaction models, and customer journeys are areas where Himanshu excels.

His proficiency extends to resource management, roadmap and sprint planning, design direction, conflict resolution, team operations, feature planning, and requirements gathering.

Himanshu has a strong background in stakeholder interviews, heuristic evaluation, wireframes, prototypes, persona development, usability testing, and designing emerging user experiences.

He is a multi-disciplinary team leader with expertise in public speaking and thought leadership.

Himanshu's education includes a High School degree from St. Francis De Sales School, an M.F.A. in Advertising Design from Syracuse University, and a 5-year Communication Design program with a major in Graphic Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

In terms of organizations, Himanshu has held various roles such as Co-Founder and VP of Experience Design at Centime, Inc., Design Leadership Forum Member at InVision, and Advisory Board Member at Currnt, among others.