Hello! I’m Manjiri, a seasoned UX designer with over a decade of experience across diverse industries including healthcare, banking, finance, and retail. I thrive on thinking outside the box to transform complex business challenges into user-centered solutions, always prioritizing empathy throughout the design journey.

I have a strong track record of collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, working closely with stakeholders, product owners, researchers, and developers to achieve a shared vision. In my role as a design lead, I foster interdisciplinary collaboration to create insightful, user-led experiences based on user reasearch,  interviews, usability testing, and data analysis..

Most of my projects focus on B2B solutions using SaaS platforms. I strategically leverage research, UX best practices, human-computer interaction principles, and testing, ensuring a focus on the end user from the very beginning. I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with notable companies such as EndPoint Clinical, PWC, Wells Fargo, EY, Crowe, Keller, Berkshire Hathaway, Genomic Health, and Ecolab.

Outside of work, I love exploring the Bay Area through hiking with my spouse and our dogs, Karma and Meeko. I’m also a plant enthusiast, proudly nurturing a collection of around 200 plants, including some rare varieties. 

RESUME

EDUCATION

Academy of Art University   2000 – 2003
San Francisco / BFA, Graphic Design

Nielsen Norman Group   2015
San Francisco / UX Certification
HCI & Human Factors

SKILLS

UI/UX
Design Systems
Ideation & Workflows
Design Thinking
Interaction & UI Design
User Experience Design
Prototyping
Information Architecture

Research
User Journey Mapping
Personas
Value Mapping
Roadmap Sequencing
Heuristic Evaluation
User Interviews
Surveys

Tools
Figma / Sketch / Adobe XD
Adobe Suite

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Conversational AI Course  2024

UX Metrics Course  2022
Udemy / YouTube

IBM Design Thinking Course 2020
San Francisco / IBM

Speculative Design Workshop   2020
San Francisco / by Christian Ervin

Keynote Speaker   2018
Minneapolis / Magenic

UX Performance Recognition   2018
San Francisco / Magenic

SAFe Certified   2017
San Francisco

Cooper {Course}   2016
San Francisco / Design Leadership

Nielsen Norman Group  2016
San Francisco / Analytics & UX   

 

 EXPERIENCE

LEAD UX DESIGNER / Cognizant                                                May 2021 – Present / San Francisco
Clients: LabCorp (Endpoint Clinical), Wells Fargo, PWC.

    • Individual contributor in aligning business goals to user needs, crafting strategy and solutions.
    • Led design team overseeing the project and defining milestones.
    • Led team through the end-to-end process and implementation for design systems.
    • Worked in partnership with stakeholders & product owners, collaborating with managers, ux designers, user researcher and development team.
    • Involved in ideation, strategy, info. architecture, design systems user-testing and iterative prototyping and created insight led experiences.
    • Applied strategic perspective to design leveraging user-centered design principles, human factors, and usability best practices.
    • Involved in sprint planning, gathering requirements, sizing, grooming sessions and more.

SENIOR UX DESIGNER / Magenic Technologies                     Nov 2016 – May 2021 / San Francisco
Clients: EY, Crowe, Keller, Berkshire Hathaway, Genomic Health, Ecolab, Kodak, Staples.

  • Led sessions aligning UX solutions to meet user needs and business requirements.
  • Involved in user research, heuristic analysis, journey mapping, ux strategy, information architecture, design systems and iterative prototyping.
  • Collaborated with stakeholders, product owners, business analysts, designers, developers and QA team to achieve product goals.
  • Applied user-centered design principles, human factors, and usability best practices.
  • Provided appropriate deliverables respective to the design stages in timely manner.
  • Involved in sprint planning, gathering requirements, sizing, grooming sessions and more.

    UX DESIGNER / LQ Digital.                                                               Sep 2014 – Nov 2016 / Oakland
    Clients: McAfee, Intel, Bing, Google Partners, USAA, Home Listings Finder.

    • Involved in problem solving, ideation, strategy and design.
    • Worked closely with leadership team, fostering collaboration with stakeholders, product owners, and development team.
    • Designed user flows and interactions for mobile platform by applying ux best practices.
    • Responsible for user research, heuristic analysis, competitor analysis, personas, 
wire-framing and prototyping solutions.
    • Responsible for branding and visual design.
    • Led review sessions with product owners, data analysts and developers.

    (Prior 10 yrs+ experience in UX , Graphic, Web & Package Design)

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