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Aishwarya Navale User Experience Designer

PHONE 646-***-****

EMAIL *****************@*****.***

I am passionate about striking a chord through my designs and articulating experiences that capture meaningful interactions. I believe that intuitive experiences and emotional connections play a key role in bringing value to holistic solutions.

Employment History

Dec 2020 — Present

BELLEVUE, WA

User Experience Designer 2

The Michaels Company Inc.

- Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into products useful and valuable for Michael's mobile app and in-store devices

- Design flows and experiences that are simple, usable and elegant

- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions and contributing in design system for Michaels with the rest of the product and executive teams

- Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to continually raise our bar for quality

- Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers and content strategists to oversee the user experience of a product, from conception to launch Jan 2020 — May 2020

BOCA RATON, FL

UX Design Intern

HCL Technologies

Working on improving the user experience design and shipping of the HCL Commerce: B2B and B2C e-commerce stores, Version 9.1.

- Works in partnership with product, engineering, and marketing teams to initiate product strategy, define the road map, and conduct workshops to define user problems & business goals.

- Creates user flows, wire-frames, prototypes, and high-fidelity interfaces to effectively communicate design ideas across the entire product life cycle.

- Following through with Agile Design methodologies to create quick workable prototypes taking into consideration user-friendly interaction design. Contribution in creating a design system for HCL Commerce.

- Builds HTML/CSS design mock-ups for web and creates prototypes in Sketch/Flinto/InVision for iOS.

- Collaborates with a team of developers through project completion. Sep 2019 — Nov 2019

MIAMI, FL

UX Graduate Assistant

University of Miami

- Created effective data-driven, user-centered wire-frames, and high-fidelity mock-ups for web and mobile.

- Led inclusive design, built style guide, and produced design artifacts such as scenarios, paper prototypes, flows, information architecture diagrams, sketches, wire-frames, and high-fidelity mock-ups. (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Sketch, and Figma)

- Created motion design prototypes for location and map-based applications. (Figma & Figmotion)

- Designing a VR application for training women against sexual harassment in a corporate setting featured in UM Interactive Media fair.

- Designed and shipped an AR application for the University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum by leading the Interaction Design part in the project. Feb 2018 — Jun 2018

PUNE, INDIA

UX Design Intern

John Deere

Shipped the John Deere India website, focusing majorly on the product portfolio.

- Led the complete user experience and user interface redesign of the company’s customer-facing website by following the Lean UX methodology.

- Owned the end-to-end design (interaction, visual, etc.) across multiple interactions and contributed to high-level strategic decisions for the product.

- Extensively delving into user research through primary and secondary platforms and creating user personas, building insights and developing logical flows, mapping customer journeys, developing the information architecture, and sitemaps to creating detailed wire-frames.

- Collaborated cross-functionally with a team of 5+ Primary Managers, and 15+ Engineers while advocating for customer needs.

- Created user flows, wire-frames, UI mock-ups, and high-fidelity prototypes (Figma, Zeplin, Adobe XD, HTML, CSS, Javascript) to communicate design concepts and persuade key stakeholders.

- Acted as a source of design and UI/UX expertise on the team, across all steps of the customer journey.

Education

Aug 2018 — May 2020

MIAMI, FLORIDA

University of Miami

MFA Interactive Media

Jul 2014 — May 2018

PUNE, INDIA

MIT Institute of Design

B.Des in Graphic Design

Skills Figma

Sketch

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe XD

Prototyping

Wireframing

Strategic product thinking

Digital Product Design,

Interaction Design

User flows

Journey maps

Design systems

Unity for AR/VR

Infographics & Data

Visualization

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