United Kingdom

UX Research

UX Design

Service Design

Customer Experience (CX)

University of Bristol

Exchange student

Graduate diploma

Dinika Soni

Design Researcher

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Data visualisation

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Airtable

Figma

Hotjar

Jira

Maze

Miro

Notion

Adobe After Effects

Confluence

Lookback

1. Demonstrated the value of user research across the organisation which aided in executive buy-in and led to growing the team from self to 4 within a year. 
2. Responsible for setting up the discovery process in the dual-track agile model, which involved enabling all teams to run growth experiments.

1. Fin-tech client: Shaped product design (participatory design, iterative prototyping) and evaluation (usability testing) of a smart savings app, and provided recommendations to address these needs in the app design.
2. Ed-tech client: Conducted competitive analysis to help the product team identify its competitors and understand the trends of VR in K-12 education in both US and Indian markets. 
3. Responsible for designing and building the website for the Future of Waste exhibition - ThisThatHome.

1. Responsible for shooting and editing a product video for Squatease.
2. Created illustrations and sketches for future versions of Squatease to increase efficiency and improve quality

1. Conducted foundational research and designed concepts and prototypes for a new sanitary product offering. Also assisted in drafting a proposal to the Government of Maharastra for a grant.
2. Assisted the team in documenting the installation of Squatease at Kumbh 2019 in Prayagraj.

1. Responsible for all stages of the product development process; research, design, technical product detailing and prototyping of the automated breakfast machine.
2. Collaborated with chefs and nutritionists to design the menu for the breakfast machine

I interned with CRY Mumbai for 8 weeks. They work for fulfilling the basic child rights such as; SURVIVAL, PARTICIPATION, PROTECTION and DEVELOPMENT. As a design intern, I worked in ongoing campaigns and  on the 'International volunteer day' event. This internship was a very good learning opportunity for me in terms of how such major issues are addressed and also how the necessary actions are implemented.

First Engineering Tech Pvt Ltd, is a budding start-up in the field of 3D printed eyewear. In the initial stage of my career, I got an opportunity to work on the initial product development process in this new start-up.

Key responsibilities:
+Study face shapes/anatomy and their relationship with eye wear
+Study Indian faces in particular and find design opportunities for the Indian market
+Understand the semantics of eye wear as a product and study its structure
+Work with the software team to come up with an algorithm to create customized eye wear using 3-D face scans 
+Look into different aspects of customization and strategize a design approach for the same
+Design eye wear for specific face types and work on the manufacturing CAD models

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