United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Product Design

Interaction Design

MS Human Centered Design and Engineering

Bachelor's degree

Manasi Kulkarni

UX Designer

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Presentation skills

Accessibility

Conversational AI

Design systems

ChatGPT

Figma

Framer

GitHub

Lucidchart

Adobe Creative Suite

Confluence

Organisation skills

Leadership

Content strategy

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

Conducted interviews to understand their pain points regarding the document management process. 
Helped identify gaps within their product.
Collaborated with different teams and created mocks for a new on boarding flow as well as an intuitive way to manage documents

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. 
Received recognition for the implementation of an innovative communication interface, streamlining communications of new updates to Enterprise admins.

Manage the Campus Involvement Hub, aimed at enhancing the overall commuter student experience through providing community-building opportunities, resources, and giveaways.
Manage efforts to support and oversee the 150+ campus student organizations, supervising the student staff team of student organization consultants.
Supervise relevant paraprofessional/student staff and graduate interns.

Lead UX design efforts for Fintech projects, collaborating with product owners,, developers, and business analysts to translate complex financial workflows into intuitive and visually compelling user interfaces.
Played a key role in the design and implementation of different banking processes, resulting in improved user satisfaction and increased efficiency for financial professionals.
Conducted heuristic evaluations and competitive analysis to stay abreast of industry trends and ensure the competitiveness of the products.

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.
Responsible for interaction strategies in synchronization with clients' business and user goals

Conceptualized and designed interactive and gamified experiences aimed at educating users about menstrual health, anatomy, and hygiene.
Presented the educational games at [mention any conferences or events] to showcase the innovative approach to health education through gamification.
Utilized storytelling and visual design to make complex topics approachable, promoting a positive learning experience.

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.

Led the redesign of app Selfiesh, focusing on enhancing user engagement and usability. 
Applied color theory, typography, and iconography principles to create a cohesive and visually appealing design.
Spearheaded the design of a choice-based board game interface, starting from concept to final implementation.

Assisted in user research activities, including recruiting participants and conducting interviews to study a web based global tool for a donation CMS.
Conducted thorough analysis of quantitative and qualitative data collected during usability tests, identifying patterns and trends.
Played a key role in uncovering critical usability issues during usability testing, leading to impactful design changes.

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