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Hi, I am Krishna.
I am currently designing how AI tools can improve human productivity during the workday. @ UiPath
Resume
Work
UiPath Lead Product Designer II
JUNE 2023 - PRESENT / BELLEVUE, WA
Spearheading the long-term AI+UX strategy for the company's development of a generative conversational assistant and in-tool AI enhancements to help enterprise business users save time during their workday by leveraging the power of automation.
Smartsheet Senior Product Designer II
APRIL 2023 - JUNE 2023 / BELLEVUE, WA
Designed the northstar vision and execution plan for how enterprise customers can use resource management and scenario modeling to create project plans using Smartsheet.
Google Senior Interaction Designer
AUG 2022 - MARCH 2023 / KIRKLAND, WA
Led the design efforts of an emerging product area to capture all Cloud Customer Capacity requests in one unified place and help the internal teams at Google make sure that customers are not blocked by capacity shortage. Identify high impact opportunities and potential constraints within the Google Cloud Platform to deliver products that inform a cross-functional product initiative. Contribute to design systems and inform OKRs needed to improve near and long-term outcomes for GCP and users.
Bright Machines Inc. Senior Product Designer
JAN 2020 - AUG 2020 / SEATTLE, WA
Working closely with Product, Software Engineering and Field Operations to solve the complex and interesting challenges of automation in manufacturing. The problems we address on a daily basis provide a unique mix of interesting but rewarding technical and user interaction challenges – from calibrating the vision system to physical interactions with our robots and the software that drives them. My role in the team is to humanize complex robotic workflows for our non-expert user and rely on frequent validation from our end users to keep us on the right track.
E-Builder Inc. - A Trimble Company UX Designer
FEB 2018 - DEC 2019 / PLANTATION, FL
Growing to be a UX evangelist by enhancing the design practice at e-Builder to include Job-to-be-done methodology, collaborative design thinking, creating a design system and using google tag manager all together to create a data driven design process.
Mayfield Robotics Product Design
JUNE 2017 - JAN 2018 / REDWOOD CITY
Designing end-to-end experiences of having a home robot by informing design decisions through research. A core part of my duties was to translate those findings into the physical movements/interactions of the robot and the mobile app experience so that people can interact with/through their robot remotely.
Autodesk Inc. Experience Designer
JUNE - DEC 2016 / SAN FRANCISCO
Working with the XD team which is an overarching initiative, it has been a great opportunity to step back and look across all the products through a unified lens. Having research and data at the center of our process, I worked on new customer experience to make it uniquely Autodesk.
Swim Interactive Studio Design Technologist
NOV 2015 - APRIL 2016 / SAN FRANCISCO
Supported the studio design team to build and test web application for an energy client. Worked on a bootstrap framework to maintain consistent visual language and bring the prototypes to life for the client to interact and understand our solution better. The prototypes were planned to be used as a first step towards implementation.
Education
California College of the Arts
MFA-Interaction Design
AUG 2014 - MAY 2017 / SAN FRANCISCO
Mastered areas of Tangible Interaction, Digital Experiences, Design Thinking and Strategy. Worked to better define my design practise through my Graduate Thesis on the use of connected devices to help augment behavior change for the elderly.
IIT Roorkee
Bachelor of Architecture
AUG 2009 - DEC 2013 / ROORKEE
Conceptualized an augmented experience of physical spaces in my thesis project on a International Convention Center project. Created interactive spaces with the right mix of formal and informal interactions.
Skills
Product Strategy
Design Research
Physical Computing
Prototyping
Visual/Motion Design
Usability Testing
Front-end Dev
Mentorship
VPassionate about training young designers the practice of design thinking and art of advocating for end users with XFn partners. I really enjoy facilitating design workshops and interactive learning sessions. Actively mentoring designers on and ADPList and Designed.org
Founder
Co-founded a design agency over 10 yearsago with two other partners catering to early stage start-ups helping clients establish their online presence through website, social media content and their first mobile apps.
Testimonials
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Krishna is very bright, highly motivated and has an uncommonly strong work ethic. In addition to his skill, his pleasant demeanor and kind smile make him an excellent team player. Matthew Passmore - MoreLabs
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I had the pleasure of working with Krishna during his internship at Autodesk. Krishna was a real self starter that provided our team with fresh insights a new perspective. Krishna provided the project with a solid conceptual base that we continue to build upon. Great work! Jon Page - UX Manager, Autodesk Inc.
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Krishna was my student at CCA in the MFA program, then joined my team this summer as an intern for the XD Practice at Autodesk. This boy is going places! Maria Giudice - VP, XD at Autodesk and Co-author of Rise of the DEO
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Krishna is the quintessential scientist-designer who can resolve complex problems with eureka type solutions. He is someone who is capable of looking beyond the obvious and question the ground rules. Sometime break them too for good. Shayak Sen - UX Manager, Commonfloor.com
