UX designer
Resume:
POOJA VAZIRANI
UX / PRODUCT DESIGNER
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EXPERIENCE
Motorola Solutions — UX Designer
CHICAGO, JUNE 2020 - AUGUST 2020
• Led and owned an end-to-end product to improve
communications between police and the communities they serve with over 100,000+ users worldwide.
• Conducted in-depth research and 13 participant interviews in a cross-functional team to build MSI's first community-faced mobile application that focused on creating empathy and increasing transparency between users.
• Facilitated collaborative design workshops, created multiple user-flows, and refined several iterations to deliver hi-fidelity prototypes using the company's design system in an agile environment.
Indiana University — Graduate Research Assistant
INIDANAPOLIS, AUGUST 2019 – PRESENT
• Working as an Interaction Designer with Dr. Davide Bolchini for an NSF and Google-funded accessibility project; on formulating novel ways for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) to type screenlessly over entirely auditory keyboards.
• Spearheaded competitive audit for 11+ wearable technologies, designed 14 principal interactions of the keyflow, formulated 10 evaluation scales for perceptual and auditory elements of the system.
• Conducted A/B testing with 5 expert users and usability studies with 13 BVI users to compare the auditory keyboard with the standard VoiceOver.
• Improved task completion efficiency by 97% after evaluating 4+ Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
Awayr AI — UX Designer
BOSTON, AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT
• Collaborated with a team of 3 to design Awayr Auto, a SaaS tool that targets a USD 25 Billion automotive infotainment market.
• Analyzed 100+ survey results, conducted 6 interviews with HMI professionals to design desktop software that automates and simulates any infotainment system testing in autonomous vehicles.
• Created hi-fidelity prototypes that reduce the time and cost of testing by 99% and conducted usability testing with 6 participants.
Calix — Product Designer
SAN JOSE, NOVEMBER 2020 – DECEMBER 2020
• Enhanced the business model by leveraging Calix's existing product catalog to enter the rural SMB market (40M homes) via B2B and B2C.
• Collaborated with stakeholders for concept sketches, product strategy, and SWOT analysis to devise a revenue-generating service increasing the profit margin by 60% for 1500 Communication Service Providers (CSP's).
EDUCATION
Indiana University — Master’s in Human
Computer Interaction
INDIANAPOLIS, EXPECTED MAY 2021
University of Mumbai — B.E. Computer
Science
AUGUST 2015 - MAY 2019
SKILLS
DESIGN RESEARCH EVALUATION
Interaction Design
UI Design
Wireframing
Mockups
Storyboarding
Visual Design
Motion Design
Design Systems
Style Guides and
Library
Rapid and
Advanced
Prototyping
Sketching
Illustration
Observations
Survey
User Interviews
Competitive
Analysis
Affinity Diagram
Personas
Journey Mapping
A/B Testing
User Research
Contextual
Inquiry
User Flow
Cognitive
Walkthrough
Heuristic
Evaluation
Usability
Testing
SWOT Analysis
TOOLS
DESIGN PROTOTYPING DEVELOPMENT
Sketch
Figma
Adobe XD
InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
Invision
Balsamiq
Miro
Mural
JIRA
Principle
HTML
CSS
PHP
Bootstrap
Python
PUBLICATION
Advocacy Through Design: Partnering to Improve Online Communications and Connections in a Life Plan
Community — Accepted for ACM DIS 2021
LEADERSHIP
IEEE-VESIT — Chairperson, Executive Officer
July 2017 - June 2019
Led a team of 50+ members, handled budgeting and
negotiation with external sponsors, organized technical workshops for Women in Engineering wing.
Rotaract Club of Deonar — Secretary, Director
June 2015 - June 2019
Led a team of 40+ individuals, touched lives with initiatives like X-pressions (community service project for 4000+ underprivileged children), Talent Fiesta (performing arts for 620+ people with disabilities), fostering talent, diversity, and cultural ideas across different city areas.
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