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Graduation Behind. Dedication Ahead.
Newly graduated and passionate about Product Design, I'm eager to apply my abilities toward creating captivating mobile app interfaces. I'm on the hunt for a role that pushes me while allowing me to contribute to compelling projects, fostering my development in design.
Education
MSI in Human-Computer Interaction, School of Information, University of Michigan 2022 - 2024
Graduated with GPA: 3.9/4.0
Capstone Project: "Collaborative Learning App Design" — Designed a mobile app to revolutionize educational ecosystems, enhancing interactive learning and peer collaboration through user research, ideation, and iterative design to create a user-friendly interface for mobile platforms.
Relevant Coursework: SI 501 - Contextual Inquiry and Consulting Foundations, SI 506 - Programming I, SI 544 - Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis, SI 582 - Introduction to Interaction Design, SI 588 - Fundamentals of Human Behavior, SI 505 - Career and Internship Studio, Graphic Design and Visual Communications, Web Design: Responsiveness and Accessibility, Needs Assessment and Usability Evaluation, Introduction to AR/VR Application Design, Pervasive Interaction Design, Designing Consumer-Health Technologies, Generative AI + UX, Automotive User Experience, Mastery User Experience Research and Design
Experience
Adobe Inc
Product Designer Intern
Remote USA, Jan 2024 – May 2024
• Facilitated and led design thinking sessions with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, driving alignment and innovation across teams.
• Conducted generative user research, including contextual inquiries, ethnography, user interviews, and stakeholder interviews, transforming insights into actionable design improvements.
• Created and presented journey maps, empathy maps, and personas to stakeholders, enhancing understanding and buy-in for user-centric designs.
• Justified research strategies and insights to stakeholders unfamiliar with the UX discipline, improving acceptance of design recommendations.
• Worked as a collaborative team member with business partners, product managers, developers, and fellow designers, ensuring cohesive product development.
• Provided mentoring, teaching, and leadership to junior designers, resulting in a 25% increase in annual subscription renewals for key Adobe products.
• Evangelized UX within the team and across the department, promoting user-centric design practices.
• Implemented a redesigned primary workflow in Adobe XD, optimizing operations and significantly enhancing design team productivity.
The Understanding Group (TUG)
Information Architecture Intern
Ann Arbor, MI Jul 2023 – Dec 2023
• Conducted extensive user research and jobs-to-be-done audits, interviewing over 100 users to extract pivotal insights, directly shaping decision-making and strategies.
• Developed and deployed robust information architectures, optimizing navigation and increasing user satisfaction by 20%.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to create intuitive navigation structures, resulting in a 15% rise in user engagement.
• Designed and updated sitemaps, wireframes, and user flows, enhancing cross-functional communication and reducing project bottlenecks by 30%.
• Created detailed user personas and archetypes, aligning digital spaces with user preferences and boosting engagement by 25%.
• Justified research strategies and insights to stakeholders, improving project alignment and outcomes.
Raseet Health, Kryptonas Innovations
UX Designer
Noida, India Feb 2021 – Jun 2022
• Co-founded an e-pharmacy startup, acquiring over 10,000 customers and 200 partner pharmacies within the first three months.
• Led UX design and product management for an advanced analytics platform, conducting generative user research and reducing user drop-off rates by 30%.
• Facilitated design thinking sessions with stakeholders, collaborating closely with product managers, developers, and fellow designers to deliver impactful solutions.
• Conducted over 150 user testing sessions, leading to a 20% enhancement in user satisfaction and evangelizing UX within the team.
• Managed cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and maintaining high standards of design quality.
• Transformed user research into assets such as affinity walls, journey maps, empathy maps, and storyboards, improving project deliverables.
• Led prototyping efforts to visualize and test design concepts, improving the iterative design process and user feedback integration.
Connectial Infosolutions PVT LTD
UX Designer
Remote, India Jul 2019 – Jan 2021
• Designed and launched comprehensive customer feedback systems, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement through data-driven insights.
• Conducted evaluative testing with participants using InVision and UserTesting.com, transforming user research into actionable assets such as wireframes, mockups,
and personas.
• Led product management and project management efforts, managing multiple projects simultaneously and promoting a human-centric design approach through design
thinking sessions.
• Worked as a collaborative team member with business partners, product managers, developers, and fellow designers, ensuring cohesive product development.
• Provided mentoring and leadership to team members, improving overall project outcomes and team collaboration.
• Developed and tested high-fidelity prototypes, enhancing the user experience through iterative design improvements.
Teaching Experience
University of Michigan, School of Information | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 – May 2024
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) | SI 364 – Building Data-Driven Applications
• Facilitated bi-weekly discussion sections, a course with an average enrollment of 80 undergraduate students
• Graded assignments and exams promptly and provided one-on-one assistance to students during office hours, maintaining a turnaround time of 48 hours and ensuring timely feedback for student improvement
University of Michigan, School of Information | Ann Arbor, MI | Jan 2023 – May 2023
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) | SI 658 – Information Architecture
• Advocated in the refinement of course materials and assessments, resulting in a 20% improvement in student performance based on midterm evaluations
• Offered personalized guidance during office hours, contributing to a 10% increase in students' confidence in tackling complex information architecture projects
Skills
Tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, FigJam, Miro, Wireframe.cc, Bezi (Bezel), Unity, Adobe Aero, Snapchat Lens Studio, Meta Spark Studio, UserTesting.com, Webflow, Framer, InVision, Excel, Word
Research Methods: Design Thinking, User Research, Contextual Inquiry, Ethnography, Field Research, User Interviews, Stakeholder Interviews, Affinity Walls, Journey Maps, Empathy Maps, Personas, Storyboards, Mockups, Wireframing, Prototyping, Interaction Design, Usability Testing, Task Flow, Information Architecture, Peer Leadership, Team Collaboration, Project Management, Ideation Workshops, Generative User Research
Project Management Frameworks/Tools: Agile Methodologies, Trello, Scrum, Reetro, AWS Management, JIRA
Programming Languages: Python, HTML, CSS, Oracle, MySQL, JavaScript, XCode, SQL, Bootstrap
Other Skills: Product Management, Project Management, Wireframing/Mockups, Prototyping, Usability Testing, Task Flow, Information Architecture, Peer Leadership, Team Collaboration, Project Management
Projects
General Motors | Product Designer | Ann Arbor, MI | Jan 2024 - May 2024
Currently leading a collaborative project, applying cutting-edge user experience design principles, competitive analysis, creating wireframes and high-fidelity designs in Figma to solve complex problems, and designing infotainment screens for Performance vehicles
CanniBuddy | UX Designer & UX Researcher | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
• Led UX design and research for "Cannibuddy," an AI-powered app optimizing personalized cannabis treatment, utilizing tools Miro, Figma, and Protopie to craft user-centric interfaces, facilitate session tracking, and manage emergency support during panic attacks
• Collaborated with engineers, product managers, and data scientists on the "Cannibuddy" AI-powered app, facilitating cross-functional workshops and regular sync-ups to align design decisions with technical capabilities and business goals, enhancing product reliability and user satisfaction.
Calmi Ring | UX Designer & UX Researcher | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
• Developed the "Calmi Ring," a wearable solution for social anxiety, featuring a heart rate monitor, skin condition sensor, and haptic feedback for real-time emotional insights, following extensive user research, including diary studies, surveys, and user enactments.
• Collaborated in a multidisciplinary team to establish a product eco-system, connecting IoT devices to a cloud server, and crafting a customizable mobile app, offering tailored anxiety management in public settings.
• Utilized Figma and Adobe XD for advanced data visualization tasks, designing interactive dashboards for "Calmi Ring" that displayed real-time emotional insights through complex data sets, improving user comprehension and engagement.
Wedding Bliss | Interaction Designer, AR/VR Designer | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
• Spearheaded the design of "Wedding Bliss," a mobile-based AR assistant for wedding planning, delivering immersive and interactive UX/UI solutions through tools such as Bezi, Unity, and Adobe Creative Suite; facilitated intuitive in-app experiences like virtual try-ons and customizable themes
• Conducted comprehensive research and conceptual development, defining product vision and AR interaction strategies to enhance decision-making for engaged couples, ultimately contributing to a stress-free wedding planning environment
ho·bo dB | UX Designer, Interaction Designer, & UX Researcher | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
• Conceptualized interaction design, audience engagement, and diagrams of the problem statement and collaborated with developers, and practiced brainstorming and modeled user goals, design frameworks, principles, personas, story maps, mockups, prototypes, and user journey maps for the user-centered interaction design
• Designed innovative visual mockups, and design wireframes by drawing overviews of the design and applied the QOC approach to trace the outcomes of decisions and prototyped low-fidelity designs and high-fidelity designs & digital mockups of the final product
Research Experiences
[1]. H. Sanyal, S. Shukla and R. Agrawal, "Study of Depression Detection using Deep Learning," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICCE50685.2021.9427624.
[2]. H. Sanyal, S. Shukla, and R. Agrawal, "Natural Language Processing Technique for Generation of SQL Queries Dynamically," 2021 6th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), Maharashtra, India, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/I2CT51068.2021.9418091.
[3]. S. Shukla, H. Sanyal and R. Agrawal, "Use of SLAM Technology to Enhance Performance & Accuracy of Bots," 2020 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication Control and Networking (ICACCCN), Greater Noida, India, 2020, pp. 699-704, doi: 10.1109/ICACCCN51052.2020.9362944.
[4]. P. Saxena and H. Sanyal, "Improved Rules and Authorization Key Processing for Secured Online Training," 2020 4th International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology (ICECA), Coimbatore, India, 2020, pp. 690-694, doi: 10.1109/ICECA49313.2020.9297463.
[5]. Sanyal, H., Saxena, P., Agrawal, R. (2021). Enhanced Accuracy in Machine Learning Using Feature Set Bifurcation. In: Gunjan, V.K., Suganthan, P.N., Haase, J., Kumar, A. (eds) Cybernetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6691-6_46
[6]. Sanyal, H., Agrawal, R. (2021). Study of Holoportation: Using Network Errors for Improving Accuracy and Efficiency. In: Shakya, S., Balas, V.E., Haoxiang, W., Baig, Z. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Expert Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 176. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4355-9_9
Certifications
Google Project Management: Professional Certificate
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate
Meta: What is the Metaverse?
Meta: Foundations of AR
University of Virginia: Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals
DataCamp: Introduction to Python
Education
University of Michigan, School of Information Ann Arbor, MI
Master of Science in Information (MSI) in UX Research & Design, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) May 2024
GPA: 3.97/4.00
Bharati Vidyapeeth University, College of Engineering Pune, India
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electronics and Telecommunications 2018
GPA: 8.66/10
Get in touch!
If you are in pursuit of a designer committed to turning challenges into delightful experiences, let's talk!
iamhtk@umich.edu
EXPLORE
© 2024 • Handmade with Figma, Framer, and love ❤️
Get in touch!
If you are in pursuit of a designer committed to turning challenges into delightful experiences, let's talk!
iamhtk@umich.edu
EXPLORE
© 2024 • Handmade with Figma, Framer, and love ❤️
Get in touch!
If you are in pursuit of a designer committed to turning challenges into delightful experiences, let's talk!
iamhtk@umich.edu
EXPLORE
© 2024 • Handmade with Figma, Framer, and love ❤️
Graduation Behind. Dedication Ahead.
Fresh out of university with a zeal for UX/UI design, I'm keen to use my skills to craft engaging mobile app interfaces. I seek a role that challenges me and lets me contribute to exciting projects, nurturing my growth in design.
Education
MSI in Human-Computer Interaction, School of Information, University of Michigan 2022 - 2024
Graduated with GPA: 3.9/4.0
Capstone Project: "Collaborative Learning App Design" — Designed a mobile app to revolutionize educational ecosystems, enhancing interactive learning and peer collaboration through user research, ideation, and iterative design to create a user-friendly interface for mobile platforms.
Relevant Coursework: SI 501 - Contextual Inquiry and Consulting Foundations, SI 506 - Programming I, SI 544 - Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis, SI 582 - Introduction to Interaction Design, SI 588 - Fundamentals of Human Behavior, SI 505 - Career and Internship Studio, Graphic Design and Visual Communications, Web Design: Responsiveness and Accessibility, Needs Assessment and Usability Evaluation, Introduction to AR/VR Application Design, Pervasive Interaction Design, Designing Consumer-Health Technologies, Generative AI + UX, Automotive User Experience, Mastery User Experience Research and Design
Teaching Experience
University of Michigan, School of Information | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 – May 2024
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) | SI 364 – Building Data-Driven Applications
• Facilitated bi-weekly discussion sections, a course with an average enrollment of 80 undergraduate students
• Graded assignments and exams promptly and provided one-on-one assistance to students during office hours, maintaining a turnaround time of 48 hours and ensuring timely feedback for student improvement
University of Michigan, School of Information | Ann Arbor, MI | Jan 2023 – May 2023
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) | SI 658 – Information Architecture
• Advocated in the refinement of course materials and assessments, resulting in a 20% improvement in student performance based on midterm evaluations
• Offered personalized guidance during office hours, contributing to a 10% increase in students' confidence in tackling complex information architecture projects
Experience
Adobe Inc
Product Designer Intern
Remote USA, Jan 2024 – May 2024
• Facilitated and led design thinking sessions with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, driving alignment and innovation across teams.
• Conducted generative user research, including contextual inquiries, ethnography, user interviews, and stakeholder interviews, transforming insights into actionable design improvements.
• Created and presented journey maps, empathy maps, and personas to stakeholders, enhancing understanding and buy-in for user-centric designs.
• Justified research strategies and insights to stakeholders unfamiliar with the UX discipline, improving acceptance of design recommendations.
• Worked as a collaborative team member with business partners, product managers, developers, and fellow designers, ensuring cohesive product development.
• Provided mentoring, teaching, and leadership to junior designers, resulting in a 25% increase in annual subscription renewals for key Adobe products.
• Evangelized UX within the team and across the department, promoting user-centric design practices.
• Implemented a redesigned primary workflow in Adobe XD, optimizing operations and significantly enhancing design team productivity.
Connectial Infosolutions PVT LTD
UX Designer
Remote, India Jul 2019 – Jan 2021
• Designed and launched comprehensive customer feedback systems, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement through data-driven insights.
• Conducted evaluative testing with participants using InVision and UserTesting.com, transforming user research into actionable assets such as wireframes, mockups,
and personas.
• Led product management and project management efforts, managing multiple projects simultaneously and promoting a human-centric design approach through design
thinking sessions.
• Worked as a collaborative team member with business partners, product managers, developers, and fellow designers, ensuring cohesive product development.
• Provided mentoring and leadership to team members, improving overall project outcomes and team collaboration.
• Developed and tested high-fidelity prototypes, enhancing the user experience through iterative design improvements.
Raseet Health, Kryptonas Innovations
UX Designer
Noida, India Feb 2021 – Jun 2022
• Co-founded an e-pharmacy startup, acquiring over 10,000 customers and 200 partner pharmacies within the first three months.
• Led UX design and product management for an advanced analytics platform, conducting generative user research and reducing user drop-off rates by 30%.
• Facilitated design thinking sessions with stakeholders, collaborating closely with product managers, developers, and fellow designers to deliver impactful solutions.
• Conducted over 150 user testing sessions, leading to a 20% enhancement in user satisfaction and evangelizing UX within the team.
• Managed cross-functional projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and maintaining high standards of design quality.
• Transformed user research into assets such as affinity walls, journey maps, empathy maps, and storyboards, improving project deliverables.
• Led prototyping efforts to visualize and test design concepts, improving the iterative design process and user feedback integration.
The Understanding Group (TUG)
Information Architecture Intern
Ann Arbor, MI Jul 2023 – Dec 2023
• Conducted extensive user research and jobs-to-be-done audits, interviewing over 100 users to extract pivotal insights, directly shaping decision-making and strategies.
• Developed and deployed robust information architectures, optimizing navigation and increasing user satisfaction by 20%.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to create intuitive navigation structures, resulting in a 15% rise in user engagement.
• Designed and updated sitemaps, wireframes, and user flows, enhancing cross-functional communication and reducing project bottlenecks by 30%.
• Created detailed user personas and archetypes, aligning digital spaces with user preferences and boosting engagement by 25%.
• Justified research strategies and insights to stakeholders, improving project alignment and outcomes.
Skills
Tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch, Figma, FigJam, Miro, Wireframe.cc, Bezi (Bezel), Unity, Adobe Aero, Snapchat Lens Studio, Meta Spark Studio, UserTesting.com, Webflow, Framer, InVision, Excel, Word
Research Methods: Design Thinking, User Research, Contextual Inquiry, Ethnography, Field Research, User Interviews, Stakeholder Interviews, Affinity Walls, Journey Maps, Empathy Maps, Personas, Storyboards, Mockups, Wireframing, Prototyping, Interaction Design, Usability Testing, Task Flow, Information Architecture, Peer Leadership, Team Collaboration, Project Management, Ideation Workshops, Generative User Research
Project Management Frameworks/Tools: Agile Methodologies, Trello, Scrum, Reetro, AWS Management, JIRA
Programming Languages: Python, HTML, CSS, Oracle, MySQL, JavaScript, XCode, SQL, Bootstrap
Other Skills: Product Management, Project Management, Wireframing/Mockups, Prototyping, Usability Testing, Task Flow, Information Architecture, Peer Leadership, Team Collaboration, Project Management
Projects
General Motors | Product Designer | Ann Arbor, MI | Jan 2024 - May 2024
Currently leading a collaborative project, applying cutting-edge user experience design principles, competitive analysis, creating wireframes and high-fidelity designs in Figma to solve complex problems, and designing infotainment screens for Performance vehicles
CanniBuddy | UX Designer & UX Researcher | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
• Led UX design and research for "Cannibuddy," an AI-powered app optimizing personalized cannabis treatment, utilizing tools Miro, Figma, and Protopie to craft user-centric interfaces, facilitate session tracking, and manage emergency support during panic attacks
• Collaborated with engineers, product managers, and data scientists on the "Cannibuddy" AI-powered app, facilitating cross-functional workshops and regular sync-ups to align design decisions with technical capabilities and business goals, enhancing product reliability and user satisfaction.
Calmi Ring | UX Designer & UX Researcher | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
• Developed the "Calmi Ring," a wearable solution for social anxiety, featuring a heart rate monitor, skin condition sensor, and haptic feedback for real-time emotional insights, following extensive user research, including diary studies, surveys, and user enactments.
• Collaborated in a multidisciplinary team to establish a product eco-system, connecting IoT devices to a cloud server, and crafting a customizable mobile app, offering tailored anxiety management in public settings.
• Utilized Figma and Adobe XD for advanced data visualization tasks, designing interactive dashboards for "Calmi Ring" that displayed real-time emotional insights through complex data sets, improving user comprehension and engagement.
Wedding Bliss | Interaction Designer, AR/VR Designer | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
• Spearheaded the design of "Wedding Bliss," a mobile-based AR assistant for wedding planning, delivering immersive and interactive UX/UI solutions through tools such as Bezi, Unity, and Adobe Creative Suite; facilitated intuitive in-app experiences like virtual try-ons and customizable themes
• Conducted comprehensive research and conceptual development, defining product vision and AR interaction strategies to enhance decision-making for engaged couples, ultimately contributing to a stress-free wedding planning environment
ho·bo dB | UX Designer, Interaction Designer, & UX Researcher | Ann Arbor, MI | Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
• Conceptualized interaction design, audience engagement, and diagrams of the problem statement and collaborated with developers, and practiced brainstorming and modeled user goals, design frameworks, principles, personas, story maps, mockups, prototypes, and user journey maps for the user-centered interaction design
• Designed innovative visual mockups, and design wireframes by drawing overviews of the design and applied the QOC approach to trace the outcomes of decisions and prototyped low-fidelity designs and high-fidelity designs & digital mockups of the final product
Research Experiences
[1]. H. Sanyal, S. Shukla and R. Agrawal, "Study of Depression Detection using Deep Learning," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICCE50685.2021.9427624.
[2]. H. Sanyal, S. Shukla, and R. Agrawal, "Natural Language Processing Technique for Generation of SQL Queries Dynamically," 2021 6th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), Maharashtra, India, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/I2CT51068.2021.9418091.
[3]. S. Shukla, H. Sanyal and R. Agrawal, "Use of SLAM Technology to Enhance Performance & Accuracy of Bots," 2020 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication Control and Networking (ICACCCN), Greater Noida, India, 2020, pp. 699-704, doi: 10.1109/ICACCCN51052.2020.9362944.
[4]. P. Saxena and H. Sanyal, "Improved Rules and Authorization Key Processing for Secured Online Training," 2020 4th International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology (ICECA), Coimbatore, India, 2020, pp. 690-694, doi: 10.1109/ICECA49313.2020.9297463.
[5]. Sanyal, H., Saxena, P., Agrawal, R. (2021). Enhanced Accuracy in Machine Learning Using Feature Set Bifurcation. In: Gunjan, V.K., Suganthan, P.N., Haase, J., Kumar, A. (eds) Cybernetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6691-6_46
[6]. Sanyal, H., Agrawal, R. (2021). Study of Holoportation: Using Network Errors for Improving Accuracy and Efficiency. In: Shakya, S., Balas, V.E., Haoxiang, W., Baig, Z. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Expert Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 176. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4355-9_9
Certifications
Google Project Management: Professional Certificate
Google UX Design Professional Certificate
Meta Front-End Developer Professional Certificate
Meta: What is the Metaverse?
Meta: Foundations of AR
University of Virginia: Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals
DataCamp: Introduction to Python
Education
University of Michigan, School of Information Ann Arbor, MI
Master of Science in Information (MSI) in UX Research & Design, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) May 2024
GPA: 3.97/4.00
Bharati Vidyapeeth University, College of Engineering Pune, India
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) in Electronics and Telecommunications 2018
GPA: 8.66/10