Freelance
(Sep 2019 - Present)
UX/UI Designer, Graduate Capstone, Sunnyvale Art Club
(Jul 2018 - Sep 2018)
- Redesigned the Sunnyvale Art Club website; worked on UX strategy, Visual Design & Information Architecture.
- Optimized key flows around user needs and the organization's business goals. Conducted usability tests connecting with the target group with methods such as in-person meetings, phone interviews and surveys.
- Created business and user goals document, personas, empathy map, affinity diagram, wireframes, design system guidelines and high fidelity clickable prototype.
- Presented to the members of the Sunnyvale Art Club during the monthly meeting with around 40 members at the meeting.
Sr. Game Designer, Nazara Technologies
(Apr 2009 - Dec 2009)
Nazara Technologies is a leading India based gaming and sports platform with presence in India, Africa and North America.
- Designed mobile games and ensured completion from concept to launch.
Sr. Game Designer, Reliance Games
(Feb 2008 - Apr 2009)
Reliance had the customer base of 150 million in India in 2009. I worked on big brands such as Cartoon Network, Manchester United, ICC Champions Trophy and Haywards 5000.
- Created highly addictive games that resulted in 60% increase in revenues in
pay - per - play model.
- Designed mobile games and worked collaboratively in all the phases of development from concept to launch.
Script Writer, Game Designer, Acenetaxis Infosystems Pvt Ltd
(Feb 2008 - Apr 2009)
- Worked on high quality animated e-greetings from concept to launch.
- Designed addictive browser - based casual games.
University of California, Santa Cruz, Silicon Valley Extension
Post Graduate Certificate - User Experience and Web Design
(2015 - 2018)
Symbiosis, Pune, India
Post-Graduate Certificate in Information Technology
(2009 – 2011)
Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai, India
Post-Graduate Certificate in 3D Graphics And Animation
(2005– 2006)
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India
Bachelors Of Science In Chemistry with Double Honors Degree in
Inter-Religious Studies and Zoology
(2002 – 2005)
IBM
Enterprise Design Thinking
(2021)
Stanford Continuing Studies, San Jose
Social Media Marketing
(2019)
Stanford Continuing Studies, San Jose
Design Research: Creating New Products and Market Success
(2019)
UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco
Watercolors
(2015)
UC Berkeley Extension, San Francisco
Illustrating Portraits
(2014)
Tools
Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe XD/ Photoshop/Illustrator, Webflow
Research Methods
Web Data Analysis, Heuristic Evaluation, User Interviews, Surveys
Design Methods
Product Concept, UX Strategy, User Journey Mapping, Sketching, Storyboarding, Wireframing, Prototyping
If I am not working, I create art.
Please check my Facebook page. Follow me if you enjoy art. :)
She is extremely creative and has excellent problem-solving skills. Her concepts were always interesting. Shoot a ‘Why?’ question and she can provide the rationale behind her design decisions always. Her soft skills made it easy to communicate with her on a daily basis. She can lead a team being a team player. If you get an opportunity to work with Merinal, grab it. I'm sure, you will be happy with your decision.
Creativity. New ideas. A train of new ideas... describes Brunda in a nutshell. She thinks way too out of the box and her concepts are really cool. Coming up with new characters, assigning new traits, creating new worlds altogether are all her forte. She's got the finesse of an author and inherently is an artist. The projects she handled as far as I can remember all came to completion. She'll up the ante, then stabilize. Then up the ante further and it kinda becomes hygiene. It's fun working with Brunda.
I really enjoyed working with Brunda. I can call her a ‘thinking machine’. She can come up with new animation/game concepts in any given topic spontaneously.She has excellent storytelling skills and presents her concepts to the team with clarity and confidence. Her artistic talent helped the animators and the developers to visualize the flow of shots effortlessly.I admire her work ethic and commitment to her projects. She has always worked with great passion to push quality with due diligence. I highly recommend her.
Brunda was an excellent creative writer and can think anything out of the box for creating unique and exciting game ideas, she was a hard-working member of a hard-working game development team. She was known to put in unrelenting effort and time for getting new concepts of Games and keep the Game development team moving with new products.