I am inspired by people, driven by technology.

But Who Am I?

My friends call me a genius and I buy it.

Greetings, web traveller! My name is Kunal Dewan. I design & develop digital products for people, with people. On this website you can find some of my recent design work.

I'm interested in solving complex human problems through digital interfaces that are as enjoyable as easy to use. Some of my areas of interest are accessibility, design systems, interaction design, UI frameworks, animations, and browser performance.

Outside of work, I love conversations on UX, HCI, working out, video games, and golden retrievers :-). When I'm not trying out new food cuisines, I'm playing my bass guitar, teaching, reading articles, catching up with the latest memes and being a mint chocolate evangelist ;)

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I love mentoring and coaching students since my early college years and now offer carefully crafted advice on being a skilled engineer / designer, personalized interview preparation, navigating front-end engineering and general career consultation in tech industry.

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My Design Philosophy.

ELEGANT

Elegant and aesthetically pleasing products attract engagement and are more enjoyable to use.

rhythmIC

Rhythm promotes recognition over recall and and seamlessly guides users through the interface.

OBJECTIVE

Objective products that imitate the real world prove to be more intuitive.

EVOCATIVE

People strongly remember how others made them feel. Digital products are no different.

FEASIBLE

My technical expertise shadows what I design, making me impeccable at estimating feasibility.

Journey so far.

Univ. of Toronto

September 2021 - Present

Toronto, Canada

Master's Student - UX Design, HCI

‍Faculty of Information

Pursuing my interests in human-centered design enabling me to apply these principles in engineering.

Teaching Assistant - Software Engineering

Department of Computer Science

CSC301 - Intro to Software Engineering

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

ECE444 - Software Engineering

Amazon

July 2019 - August 2021

Bangalore, India

Front-End / UX Engineer

‍IN Advertising Tech. team, India

Appointed as Amazon India's 1st approved Front-End Engineer-I. Most recently, I co-led Front-End/UX Engineering initiatives and global expansions to North America.

Design System Contributor

Global Advertiser Experience team, USA‍

Challenged my abilities by working on verifying the design and coding a complex, accessible forms layout component for a design system which is consumed across 300+ micro-services within Amazon.

BITS Pilani

August 2015 - July 2019

Goa, India

B.E. (Hons.) Computer Science

Studied my favorite discipline by exploring different aspects in the field of Computer Science & Engineering.

Teaching Assistant and Mentor

Discovered a new hobby by being a teaching assistant for programming courses and a personal mentor to a batch of 8 students.

Goldman Sachs

May - July 2018

Bangalore, India

Software Analyst

Private Wealth Management Technology

‍Became fascinated with user interfaces when I designed and created the web platform for Private Wealth Management team. I owned the product during my tenure and completed several iterations working with the UX team taking into account security, usability and branding guidelines.

CSIR - CEERI

May - July 2017

Pilani, India

Researcher and Developer

Cognitive Computing Group

First encountered human-centered design when I was involved in creation of a tele-teaching solution for less privileged kids. I worked under Chief Scientist Dr. A. S. Mandal in the Cognitive Computing group and presented a demo to the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Govt. of India for a $100k+ project grant.