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Manasi Kulkarni

UX/UI Designer

Unbound creativity in every aspect inspires me. I am focused on creating meaningful experiences through design by deriving the most valuable insights.

Ally Financial

Senior UX Designer

May 2024 - Present

  • Led the complete redesign of a legacy financial system, resulting in increased user adoption ratesand improved satisfaction scores.

  • Spearheaded end-to-end UX process including user research, information architecture wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing to deliver intuitive and seamless interface.

  • Presented design concepts and progress updates to senior leadership, effectively communicatingthe value of user-centered design to secure stakeholder buy-in.

  • Leveraged expertise in user research, interaction design, and problem-solving to optimize andenhance the overall user experience.

Lucid Software

UX Design Specialist

August 2023 - December 2023

  • Conducted interviews with Lucid customers to understand their journey and identify pain points as a part of document management process.

  • Played a pivotal role in enhancing the depth of product analysis by identifying key gaps and strategically introduced new dimensions to our focus - Change Management.

  • Revamped onboarding experience and document management through cross-functional collaboration, creating impactful mocks for a user-centric product design.

Lucid Software

UX Design Intern

May 2023 - July 2023

  • Worked in an agile environment, iteratively refining designs based on user feedback and evolving project requirements.

  • Collaborated closely with product managers, stakeholders, and end users to gather insights and define design requirements.

  • Acknowledged for successfully implementing an innovative communication interface, which effectively streamlined distribution of new updates to Enterprise administrators.

Wongdoody Infosys, Pune

Lead - Experience Designer

April 2021 - July 2022

  • Led a team of designers to design ways to improve a FinTech application.

  • Research and end-to-end process to meet the client's expectations.

  • Responisble for interaction strategies in synchronization with clients' business and user goals

Collective Consciousness, Bangalore

UX/UI Designer

November 2020 - February. 2021

  • Built an e-learning portal and gamifying it to help educate underprivileged children about health education.

The Mint Lab, Bangalore

UX/UI Designer

February 2020 -  August 2020

  • Strategized ways to scale up the start-up, especially the UX studio.

  • Managed a multidisciplinary team over multiple projects.

  • Heavy focus on ergonomics and user research for the development of design solutions for customers.

  • Handled the design from initial concept sketches to release.

Monsoon Fish, Pune

UX/UI Design Intern

May 2019 -

June 2019

  • Redesigned a holistic experience for an app according to the user testing.

  • Designed from concept a choice based board game through aspects of empathy and inclusion. board game

Tekdi Technologies, Pune

UX Research Intern

May 2018 -

June 2018

  • Part of a design team working on a web based global tool for a donation Joomla CMS.

  • Conducted user research, A/B testing and gathered insights to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product scope.

India HCI conference, Bangalore

Student Volunteer

December 2018

  • Organising the Prelude Event. Content Writing, co-ordinating for workshops, paper sessions, KeyNotes, Social Media handling and hospitality for volunteers.

Srishti Live , Bangalore

Artist Co-ordinator

August 2018

  • Worked closely with the International artists who came to guide us at our annual fest.

  • Coordinated and managed the artists and their performers, helping them with their schedules and requirements.

manasimk98@gmail.com

manasikulkarni.com

Education

MS Human Centred Design and Engineering

University of Michigan - Dearborn

2022-2024

B.Des Human Centred Design

Srishti School of Art Design and Technology 

2016-2020

Skills

Tools

Formative Research

User Interviews

Survey / Observation Competitive Analysis

Generative Research

Affinity Diagramming

User Personas

Journey Mapping

Sketching

Prototyping

Information Architecture

Summative Research

Usability Testing

Heuristic Evaluation

Cognitive Walkthrough

Doing Anthropology

Cognitive Psychology

Interaction Design

Human Computer Interaction

Designing

Sketch

Photoshop

Figma

Adobe XD

Illustrator

Indesign

Basics of Coding

HTML / CSS

Javascript

Python

Prototyping

Principle

InVision

Framer X

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