Gauri Tawde Email & Phone Number

United States

Pune, Maharashtra, IN

• Evaluation and analysis of the company website, against established design guidelines and implementing a complete redesign to enhance aesthetic appeal while ensuring attention to detail and consistency throughout the.
• Simplifying information architecture to streamline navigation and reduce scrolling on multiple pages to achieve a more polished and user-centricinterface while maintaining the site's overall look and feel.

Austin, Texas, US

• Conducting generative and formative user research to identify the requirements for streamlining onboarding operations.
• Interview 20+ team leaders and members to identify and analyze the user journey and member experiences.
• Collaborate with diverse agile design and engineering teams to create detailed workflows and visual designs using Figma, to demonstrate and validate design concepts and craft hi-fi wireframes representative of.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Leading design decisions for a cross-functional team of 3 and advocating for users while working on 2 NSF funded projects.
• Working on research methodology as a co-principal investigator on an NSF-funded project to investigate interventions to prevent false discovery from visualized data. (Published: CHI-2023)
• Identifying and prioritizing 30+ on-screen design elements as per research aims, through competitive and domain analyses.
• Ideation and development of UI screens for 2 websites over 3-5 design iterations in Figma, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Led a cross-functional team of 5 through end-to-end design cycle for website design and development through CMS.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams and clients to understand project requirements through 10+ user and stakeholderinterviews.
• Conducted market research and competitive analysis to understand domain space of every project and working on average with3+ project teams at a time.
• Synthesized user research and discovery findings into actionable insights and clear strategic guidance through personas,wireframes, and ideating prototypes for design solutions.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

Provide feedback and critique on weekly concept sketches and project reports. Analyze student understanding of design concepts.Meeting and mentoring over 20 students a week to discuss project and course work and to develop their design thinking.

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

Teaching Assistant for Intro to Game Development.

Fishers, Indiana, US

• Worked on a chatbot interface to automate business processes in the CX sphere, reducing customer support efforts by up to 600%.
• Conducted research through end-user interviews and analyzed research data through affinity mapping to identify patterns, themes, and opportunities. Facilitated user testing sessions with stakeholders to validate design.

Bangalore, Karnataka, IN

• Prepared for 2 design thinking workshops with clients through market research, competitive analysis, heuristic & usability evaluation and identified pain points and opportunities for business innovation.
• Detailed analysis of product/website KPIs in comparison to industry standard metrics to enable SEO & social media-based customer retention and engagement with projected improvements of up to 75% in engagement for the.
• Translated user insights to design artifacts and 10+ interactive demos and compiled in-depth research documentation for clients and DevOps teams.
• Coordinated projects in multiple domain spaces for clients like APL Logistics, FedEx, and Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP).

Rueil Malmaison, Paris, FR

• Devised a market research strategy to launch a SquareD product in the smart home automation field via the Electrical Contractors’ market segment. The strategy is projected to garner up to $2.2B in revenue growth over a.

London, England, GB

• Redesigned the inventory management system of the department to promote automation through an IoT-based system using Load Sensors and Argon module, reducing delays and cutting costs by up to 40%.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Participated in an overseas greenfield implementation as a UI/UX tester for a leading Philippines based insurance company.
• Prepped for knowledge transfer with internal stakeholders for better customer engagement over complete insurance sales cycle.
• Studied the client requirements and conducted verification of user interface against established standards over 30+ UI screens.
• Coordinated and mediated between the design team and the development team to address identified UI gaps.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

Worked in an overseas assignment of production support, responsible for issues resolution using Ruby technology.

Master'S Degree, Human Computer Interaction

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Computer Science