Smitha Barki

The Home Depot – m Commerce

smithabarki — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:30:09 +0000

Smitha was part of the Mobients Team that helped The Home Depot launch their app on iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7.

When contracted to lead the design of the 2.0 iPhone app release, Smitha helped the team develop a strategy for the Home Depot to be a major force in the mobile retail space. The final app consisted of a commerce section where customer could browse and purchase products. It also included customer favorites like product demos, how-to videos, gift cards, store maps, tools and calculators.

Smitha also played a keyrole in adding new functionality like barcode scanning for later releases of the app.

EXPANDING MARKETS
After the iPhone app’s release, it was a short race to the other smartphone markets of Android and Windows Phone 7. Focusing efforts on cutting lead time, Smitha helped develop a scalable approach that allowed for the iPhone’s design to be easily adapted to the Android and Windows Phone 7 design. The Home Depot app on the Windows Phone 7 was one of the earliest in the WP7 marketplace.

Role:
UX Design Lead(Storyboards, Wireframes, and Process Flows)
Project Management (Project Planning and ensuring quality of deliverables)

Sr. User Experience Designer

smithabarki — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:55:04 +0000

Smitha Barki is a User Experience Designer with over 8 years of expertise in Mobile Design, Information Architecture, interaction and visual interface design, and project management. She has a thorough understanding of user-centered design practices and principles, and experience in information and user experience design for applications and the Web. She is adept at designing for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone 7, Blackberry and the Tablets.

Smitha has worked with clients to help formulate a business and design strategy that meets business objectives and customers’ expectations. She has been involved in creating comprehensive architecture design; user and visual interface design; site mapping; user interface and usability specifications and content design and implementation.

Smitha’s impressive list of clients include The Home Depot(Mobile and Web), Firethorn, AT&T, Philips IT, Yahoo!, Shaw Science Partners, Kone, IBM, TriScience New York, IBM/Fox Network, Kohls. Georgia Tech; to name a few.

Smitha is also an avid blogger and chronicles her experiences about managing life as a career oriented professional, a mom, and training for a marathon.