Academy of Art University (San Francisco, USA)
MFA in Interaction Design / Summer 2020 - Fall 2023
Studied User Experience Design, Animation, Front-end, Back-end
Coding, Wireframing, Prototyping, User Testing, User Research and
completed my Thesis Project named socially, an event management app.
Indian School of Design & Innovation (Mumbai, India)
UGD in Communication Design / Fall 2016 - Spring 2020
Studied User Experience Design, Graphic Design, Branding, Packaging Design, Animation, Visual Design, Typography and completed my Thesis Project named capitalyst, a stock trading app made for youngsters.
University of Mumbai (Mumbai, India)
BA in Sociology / Fall 2016 - Spring 2019
Studied Sociology, World History, and Advertising
WoMen of Connections Ministry (Richmond, VA)
UI/UX Designer Lead Intern (Internship) / February 2024 - Present
- Enhanced website usability and accessibility by implementing WCAG standards,
resulting in a 12% increase in user engagement
- Provided expert guidance on accessibility best practices for visually impaired users, ensuring compliance with WCAG standards across design projects, leading to a significant improvement in user experience metrics
- Led cross-functional collaboration between interns, designers and developers to streamline project workflows and optimize design processes, resulting in a 10% increase in project efficiency and faster delivery of design projects
NASA Ames Research Center (Mountain View, CA)
Product Designer (Corporate Sponsored) / September 2023 - December 2023
- Designed an innovative VR/AR interface for NASA’s future HumanSpace Travel to Mars, in collaboration with NASA professionals and industrial designers
- Developed Mixed Reality experiences with Figma and After Effects to enhance astronaut engagement, projected to reduce communication challenges by 30% in space missions
- Created user flows in Figma to demonstrate how an astronaut-used VR/AR product could enhance workflow efficiency, better positioning the product and improving workflow efficiency by 10%
IdeateLabs (Mumbai, India)
UI/UX Designer Intern / July 2019 - August 2019
- Redesigned key user journeys for an automobile website, streamlining checkout and registration processes to enhance usability, reduce bounce rates, and boost user engagement by 15%
- Designed wireframes using Creative Cloud for a cloud-streaming website, resulting in a seamless user experience that garnered accolades from stakeholders and accelerated project development, reducing overall project completion time by 10%
Sakshi Graphics (Mumbai, India)
Designer Intern / April 2019 - May 2019
- Developed branding project in collaboration with team members using Creative Cloud for agro firm, contributing to a 15% increase in brand recognition among the target audience
- Documented project progress while creating design specifications, style guides, and pattern libraries, ensuring accuracy, best practices, and efficiency to advance project timelines
Indian School of Design & Innovation (Mumbai, India)
UI/UX Designer Intern / May 2017 - June 2017
- Designed the candidate dashboard for an e-learning platform using Figma, resulting in a 25% increase in user journey completion rates
- Contributed to the creation and edition of engaging explainer videos to effectively teach educational concepts to students, resulting in a successful launch the following semester and attracting 200+ students to use the platform