NISHTHA MEHANWAL Phone: 267-***-****

(UX Designer with a background in Software Engineering) Email: adi1s3@r.postjobfree.com Website: www.thenishthamehanwal.com

LinkedIn: nishthamehanwal

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Digital Media DREXEL UNIVERSITY, Philadelphia, PA Sep-2018 – Jun-2020 Related coursework: Research methods for DIGM, Designing for Interactivity, Animation & Game Design, Persuasive Animation Development Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology SRM UNIVERSITY, INDIA Aug-2010 – May-2014 Related coursework: Human Computer Interaction, Data Structures, Software Design, Programming Language Concepts, Database Management SKILLS

Primary: 2D animation, Animatics, Storyboarding, User research & Persona Creation, Website Design, Story Design, Concept Sketches, Digital

& Traditional Art, Usability Testing, Interaction Design, Wireframe Production, Prototype, Surveys, Focus Group, Interviews, User Journeys Tools: Qualtrics, Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, Animate, XD & After Effects), Procreate, Storyboarder, Maya, Unity, Figma, Reaper, Sketch, InVision, Webflow, Google Analytics

Programming Languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C, Java, Processing, MySQL, JCL WORK EXPERIENCE

Volunteer Web site and User Experience designer Drexel University Nov-2020 – Present

• Redesigned the existing website and improved web and mobile functionality by creating an interactive and user-friendly interface.

• Validated the performance of the new website by conducting multiple rounds of usability testing.

• Conducted User research, created wireframes, prototypes, and handled all composition, color, illustration, the typography of the project. UX Research Methods for Empathy (Master’s Thesis) Drexel University Sep-2019 – Jun-2020 Research Question: Can we use UX Research Methods to generate Empathy?

• Conducted surveys and interviews to gather information about Social Anxiety Disorder from the target audience.

• Analyzed the collected quantitative and qualitative data to design a relatable storyline for the animation.

• Created a 5 minutes frame by frame 2D animation in 3 months in Adobe Photoshop. The process included storyboarding, animatics, hand drawing the animation, timing, coloring, and adding music.

• Conducted a second round of surveys and interviews to determine generation of empathy after watching the animated video.

• Successfully invalidated the research hypothesis and generated the report with the following conclusions: a) 81.08% of the participants were able to empathize and relate with the character. b) Further analysis of the results showed that 93.43% of women and 87.5% of the men were able to empathize with the character. c) 78.95% of the participants reported that they gained knowledge about the disorder from the animation. Illustrator BlackPenAndPaper Feb-2017 – Aug-2018

• Created digital and traditional artwork including characters, environments, and other objects for a number of clients.

• Commercialized my design skills and enhanced my product management and delivery skills.

• Built strong customer centric environment in order to increase credibility and provided prompt feedback on customers’ issues or inquiries to resolve problems and to attain client satisfaction.

• Succeeded in the entrepreneurial endeavors with a profit margin of 70%. Programmer Analyst Cognizant Jun-2015 – Apr-2017

• Barclays: Contributed to a task force to review current mobile and web banking interface and provide design solutions to solve user needs.

• Designed surveys and interviews as a part of the user research team to determine the most efficient user interface.

• Distributed pretest data among different teams for testing and analyzing accuracy of the predicted testing results.

• Performed user testing in banking and financial services domain for the client.

• Designed e-invitations and GIFS for various inter-company events. Programmer Analyst Trainee Cognizant Sep-2014 – Jun-2015

• Received training in the user experience department and learnt how design is used in the organization to solve problems and deliver a better experience of products to the customers.

• Worked together with the managers, engineers and designers to create user-friendly products for the banking and financial services domain. ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Civil Dialog Project Jan-2020 – Mar-2020

• Led the design team with an aim of creating link and platform for smooth interactions between multiple communities in Philadelphia.

• Created multiple mockups, animation concepts of the UI, designed background artwork and the wireframes for the website.

• The final output was projected onto a 7-story building which demonstrated the live discussions between different people on Twitter. Digital Art Installation Jan-2019 – Jun-2019

• Combined Interactive art and Generative art to create an image that changes according to various factors for user interaction.

• Used a Raspberry pi microprocessor and Processing language to create multiple interactive backgrounds as per the current time and weather.

• Created the program to increase user interaction by adding color detection and changing the color of some objects in the artwork.

• Developed the program with a focus to increase the home security level by creating a facial detection database.

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