Hari Khalsa Simons
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| Early Tellme Search demo | Sprint Instinct | Movies integration |
Tellme, A Microsoft Subsidiary
User Experience Designer, 2005-2008
As a user experience designer at Tellme I represented the user throughout the product lifecycle by identifying needs, designing simple and engaging interfaces, running usability studies and iterating on product designs, and advocating for usability throughout implementation and QA.
Tellme Search
A voice search application for mobile phones, designed for finding local businesses on feature phones where typing is quite tedious.
- · Partnered with several major carriers to ship the app on feature phones
- · Won first place in I.D. Magazine's annual design review, interactive category
- · Launched several Blackberry versions
- · Custom version for Sprint's flagship touchscreen phone, the Instinct
- · Expanded to include movies, weather, sports scores, and other info
- · iPhone version samples
- · Later incorporated into Windows Mobile / Bing - current demo site
Ringtones
An 800-number for sampling and purchasing ringtones using voice-recognition.
Fantasy Sports
Shared voice chat concepts for a fantasy trash-talking voice application.