Shashank Deshpande

Shashank has a unique combination of business understanding, technical acumen and creative talent and has crafted customer experience of interactive systems for more than 15 years. Prior to co-founding Clarice, Shashank managed a multi-location team of 140 usability consultants at Human Factors International (HFI), the world's largest usability consulting company. He directed projects across Product Design, User-Interface Design & Usability evaluation. Before HFI, Shashank institutionalized usability as a function in Symantec (then VERITAS) with a high performing User-Centered Design (UCD) team of over 25 usability and design professionals. The team catalyzed usability evolution of over 15 major products; a large chunk of Symantec's product portfolio. In his career, Shashank has sensitized more than 500 professionals to UCD, in organizations like Symantec, Yahoo, CMC (now TCS), L&T, NASSCOM. He is a regular speaker at usability conferences across the country and is invited to teach at leading institutes including NID, Ahmedabad and IIT IDC, Mumbai. Shashank holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.