Behind the Scenes : Meet the designer

TEAMS I'VE COLLABORATED WITH

  • Aude.ai

Strategic Product Designer and systems minded generalist with
2.5+ years of cross domain experience spanning across travel, fintech, real estate, productivity, and enterprise CRMs

Strategic Product Designer and systems minded generalist with 2.5+ years of cross domain experience spanning across travel, fintech, real estate, productivity, and enterprise CRMs

Strategic Product Designer and systems minded generalist with
2.5+ years of cross domain experience spanning across travel, fintech, real estate, productivity, and enterprise CRMs

I started in Computer Science with a specialization in AI and ML, but what interested me most was not just solving problems through code it was understanding what happens before something gets built. Why is a feature needed? What change is it trying to create? That curiosity pulled me toward design.


I began as a self-taught UX designer in a consultancy, where working across multiple projects gave me a strong foundation in experimentation and adaptability. Later, at MakeMyTrip, I worked on products at scale for millions of users, which shaped how I think about design beyond visuals as a balance of systems, business goals, user needs, and technical feasibility.


To deepen that perspective, I chose to pursue my Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction at Indiana University Bloomington. That experience has helped me grow into a more strategic product designer, one who thinks across interaction design, product lifecycle, business context, and market feasibility.


I’m a builder at heart always designing, testing, and refining. Outside of work, I explore AI in design, run hands-on experiments, and create content to support designers navigating the same path I once did.

I also currently serve as an Adobe Student Ambassador and ADPList Campus Leader

I started in Computer Science with a specialization in AI and ML, but what interested me most was not just solving problems through code it was understanding what happens before something gets built. Why is a feature needed? What change is it trying to create? That curiosity pulled me toward design.


I began as a self-taught UX designer in a consultancy, where working across multiple projects gave me a strong foundation in experimentation and adaptability. Later, at MakeMyTrip, I worked on products at scale for millions of users, which shaped how I think about design beyond visuals as a balance of systems, business goals, user needs, and technical feasibility.


To deepen that perspective, I chose to pursue my Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction at Indiana University Bloomington. That experience has helped me grow into a more strategic product designer, one who thinks across interaction design, product lifecycle, business context, and market feasibility.


I’m a builder at heart always designing, testing, and refining. Outside of work, I explore AI in design, run hands-on experiments, and create content to support designers navigating the same path I once did.

I also currently serve as an Adobe Student Ambassador and ADPList Campus Leader

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Projects Delivered

Owned the full design lifecycle from conducting research, mapping & designing flows,and iterating with cross-functional.

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Projects Delivered

Owned the full design lifecycle from conducting research, mapping & designing flows,and iterating with cross-functional.

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Industries Worked with

Designed across fintech, travel, real estate, SaaS, and nonprofit adapting to different users, workflows, and product goals

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Industries Worked with

Designed across fintech, travel, real estate, SaaS, and nonprofit adapting to different users, workflows, and product goals

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Screen Designed

Worked across small features to large workflows that support end-to-end flow, multiple user journeys, states, and use cases.

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Screen Designed

Worked across small features to large workflows that support end-to-end flow, multiple user journeys, states, and use cases.

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Leadership projects

Led a team of designers and developers across an end-to-end project lifecycle shaping collaborative, thoughtful design.

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Leadership projects

Led a team of designers and developers across an end-to-end project lifecycle shaping collaborative, thoughtful design.

Design Process

Design Process

How I turn ambiguity into decisions

The process behind building the product I use research, systems thinking, and iteration to move from unclear problems to usable measured outcomes.

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Discover and Brainstorm

understanding the product, business, and user context identifying pain points, gaps, and workflow bottlenecks

user research synthesis reframing the problem into clear opportunity areas brainstorming directions with AI

exploring edge cases, assumptions, and feature possibilities

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Design and Iterate

user flows and task mapping information architecture

concept exploration usability feedback and refinement aligning with product and engineering constraints

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Deliver and Document

design specs and handoff annotations for developers collaboration with engineering

documenting rationale behind decisions measuring impact after launch

Design Values

Design Values

My Guiding stars as a designer

No matter the project, I lean on these values to stay grounded so the work stays thoughtful, practical, and easy for people to use.

Outside of designing screens and defending design decisions

Outside of designing screens and defending design decisions

  • 2022 graduated from my undergrad as an CS AI&ML

  • One of the many hobbies I picked up after coming to USA

  • My workplace setup

  • I am a little aesthetics with the landscape.

    P.S one of those spring days

  • My mom say's I am kinda little extra sometimes but all I say is I am actually photogenic

  • I am trying to just trying to get 400 stars on Starbucks app so I can have my own free merch

  • I followed a trend and well you can say it suits me soooo well

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