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Hello I'm Bhanu Prathap

I am a curious designer with a passion to create meaningful, memorable, and usable experiences to enrich human lives.

Testimonials

Kind words from my peers and colleagues.

Bhanu is a gem! I had the privilege of getting to collaborate with him on a highly sensitive and very time-sensitive high-profile cyber response web site. Bhanu was always helpful and responsive. He proactively offered ideas to create the best user experience possible. He was flexible in applying his design and UX expertise to the myriad of regulatory requirements we were saddled with. He was very open to user feedback research and helped us make many changes on the fly. He even took the time to help educate some of the designers on my team in best practices for a design tool they were not as familiar with. Bhanu would make a great addition to any team!

Lorraine Frias

VP, Digital Channels & Publishing | St Paul, Minnesota, United States

I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to work with Bhanu at Optum! Not only did he produce beautiful, data-supported designs, but he was also a wonderful collaborator who made every meeting productive and relaxing. In particular, I was impressed by Bhanu's work with the User Research team to ensure that he rigorously tested his designs with real users. This ensured that he could have clear data to respond to any questions, and enabled the team to push forward without endless rounds of revision. Even in the brief time we worked together, I saw so much growth in his work, and I have no doubt he will continue to be a tremendous asset to every design team lucky enough to have him!

Terri (Chang) Lowry

Senior Director of UX Design | San Diego, California, USA

Bhanu is SUCH a talented, thorough, and thoughtfully collaborative Designer who I have had the pleasure of working with as the Program Owner on some recent optum.com projects. On projects ranging from our customer support/contact us experience to developing new design templates for the MedExpress experience, he has very quickly dove into the stakeholder requirements and was able to provide multiple options to help meet or exceed the business needs. That is just how he operates on a daily basis. You will not be disappointed having Bhanu as a Rockstar Designer on your team! He is a great collaborator with stakeholders and hits deadlines in a timely manner operating as a great consultant team member and partner.

Kip Ladd

Assoc. Director Digital Program Management | Boise Metropolitan Area, USA

Bhanu has been a fabulous partner in helping to envision the UX and web flow for Optum's Customer Support and Contact areas. He is very fluent in design and can accomplish anything visually, but his real value is in understanding the business need, and listening to stakeholders to build the best solution. He is willing and able to reach out and gather requirements, performance data, and opinions in order to determine the best approach.I have no hesitation in recommending him as a UX designer. His communication skills, both written and spoken, are at the highest level.

Charles Chion

Associate Director Web Strategy | Mechanicsville, Virginia, USA

I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to work with Bhanu at Optum! Not only did he produce beautiful, data-supported designs, but he was also a wonderful collaborator who made every meeting productive and relaxing. In particular, I was impressed by Bhanu's work with the User Research team to ensure that he rigorously tested his designs with real users. This ensured that he could have clear data to respond to any questions, and enabled the team to push forward without endless rounds of revision. Even in the brief time we worked together, I saw so much growth in his work, and I have no doubt he will continue to be a tremendous asset to every design team lucky enough to have him!

Missy Roode

Director of Experience Strategy, Healthcare | Greater Boston, USA

Bhanu is whip smart and a joy to work with. He effortlessly sizes up problems and starts delivering beautiful solutions so fast it will make your head spin. His thoughtful, empathetic analysis drives deep insights and he is able to express them in a visually compelling fashion in flows, journeys, wires, and final designs ready to hand off to dev. Very impressed and find myself lucky to get some time to work with him.

Matt Lee

Principal UX Engineer | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

"Given his background in design, it came as no surprise that he had a strong user-centered approach, which proved to be a great asset for the whole team. The UX was very much central to our solution and is one of the factors that led us to victory. Bhanu is a great listener and team player, he is ambitious and driven and has great time management skills. Overall, I had a very positive experience in working alongside Bhanu and I highly recommend him if you are in search for a talented, motivated, empathetic person."

Manuel Acquisti

EMEA Sales Graduate | Amcor, Zurich, Europe

"Through the six-weeks client-based project which required to design principles for designing Conversations UIs that are DEIJ-aware, Bhanu and his team have done splendid work. Their team went through multiple re-framing phases which was handled very smartly by Bhanu as a design team lead. They have re-routed their entire design process after their initial research and still ended creating full-proof deliverables in at the end of the sixth week. I have observed that Bhanu is very sensitive to details in his design process and final deliverables."

Chivukula Sai Shruthi

Assistant Professor Ph.D. | Bloomington, IN, USA

"Given his background in design, it came as no surprise that he had a strong user-centered approach, which proved to be a great asset for the whole team. The UX was very much central to our solution and is one of the factors that led us to victory. Bhanu is a great listener and team player, he is ambitious and driven and has great time management skills. Overall, I had a very positive experience in working alongside Bhanu and I highly recommend him if you are in search for a talented, motivated, empathetic person."

Manuel Acquisti
EMEA Sales Graduate
Amcor, Zurich, Europe

"Through the six-weeks client-based project which required to design principles for designing Conversations UIs that are DEIJ-aware, Bhanu and his team have done splendid work. Their team went through multiple re-framing phases which was handled very smartly by Bhanu as a design team lead. They have re-routed their entire design process after their initial research and still ended creating full-proof deliverables in at the end of the sixth week. I have observed that Bhanu is very sensitive to details in his design process and final deliverables."

Chivukula Sai Shruthi
Assistant Professor Ph.D.
Critical Qualitative and Design Researcher

"He provides a variety of solutions and has a good understanding of various industry standards. His designs check all the right boxes from being user friendly, representative of the brand vision, and resonates with a popular pulse. You can see the cogs turning when are speaking and his design sessions are spontaneous."

Manu Nellutla
Manager, Digital Integration Architect
KPMG, Massachusetts, US

"I had the opportunity to team up with Bhanu for the first time during one of MIT’s hackathons. I was impressed by how he turned our idea into an elegant prototype app with a seamless user experience in a very short time. Since then, he went on to building the identity of our brand and designing all the related visuals that encourage positive experiences for our audience and end-users. Bhanu constantly delivers great results and he’s also an excellent collaborator within our diverse team."

Amina Ighoud
Product Manager and Strategist
CoWell Solutions, Algeria, North Africa

"Bhanu's professionalism in work can never go unappreciated. His vision of design and skill of storytelling make him a true asset to have in any team which aims to deliver a great product that pleases its users. His commitment to accepted tasks makes him a great colleague."

Shashank Sabniveesu
Senior Software Engineer
Broadridge, Pittsburgh, US

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