Dilasha Jain
Education
Master of Science, Information Experience Design
Pratt Institute
August 2017 - May 2019 (Anticipated)
Information Architecture & Interaction Design, Usability Theory and Practice, Advanced User Experience Design, Programming User Interfaces, Advanced Design Research.
Design and Art Classes
June 2016 - April 2017
Mind Mapping, Creative Thinking, Elements and Principles of Design, Introduction to Product Design, Story Boarding, Perspective Drawing, Art History.
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology
Thakur College of Engineering and Technology
August 2010 - May 2014
Internet Programing, Java, Object Oriented Programming, Data Management System.
Skill Set
Contextual Inquiry
Personas
Story Telling
Affinity Diagramming
Card Sorting
Tree Testing
Competitive Analysis
User Testing
Cognitive Walkthrough
Heuristic Evaluation
Prototyping
Journey Mapping
Exploratory Research
Activities
Creative Head - ACM Committee
August 2012-May 2013
Collaboratively designed installations, posters and invitations for intra and inter college technology fest.
Volunteer- NSS (National Service Scheme)
August 2011- May 2013
Served the community through activities such as cleanliness drives, awareness rallies and stage shows
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Sketch
InVision
Illustrator
Photoshop
Keynote
Marvel
HTML/CSS
Javascript
Java/SQL
Work Experience
Techsmith Corporation - UX Intern
June 2018- Aug 2018 (Anticipated)
Collaboratively designing and conducting Usability Tests, while working closely with designers on different products like Camtasia and Snagit. Pratt School of Information Office - Graduate Assistant Feb 2018- May 2018
Assisting professors with academic research projects. Performing office work that includes reverting to email’s, creating flyers and attending general inquiries.
Accenture - Associate Software Engineer (R&D cell) July 2014- August 2015
Modified and Tested Meter Data Management (MDM) Tool to support additional data generating & analyzing services for oracle and eMeter MDMs. Participated in demonstrating MDM Tool to stakeholders and clients. Worked closely with senior architects to manage oracle MDM. Academic Projects
Biking in NYC
Feb 2018 - May 2018 (Anticipated)
Designed and conducted Exploratory Research on Biking in NYC, including all Ethnographic components such as Observation, Diary and Interviews. This project is intended to improve cycling experience/safety in NYC, thereby encouraging biking as a pragmatic and serviceable transport system across the city.
Physical/Personal Trainers
Feb 2018 - May 2018 (Anticipated)
Conducted Interviews, designed a Journey Map and created a Project Proposal that demonstrated our ideas addressing the potential problems faced by Physical/Personal Trainers. This project is under ideation and design phase, next steps include iterative prototyping. African Dream Academy
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Conducted user testing and provided recommendations to African Dream Academy (ADA), a Liberian non profit organization with the intent to improve the donation process of their website and widen their donor pool.
Roundabout Theater
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Performed User Research(Interviews/Surveys), developed and refined the Site Map(Card-Sorting/Tree Testing), conducted Competitive Analysis and paper prototyped to create a high fidelity prototype for Roundabout Theater’s website with a set of guiding principles that included to maintain the existing brand elements of their website and make it mobile optimized as well as content driven.