Akshata Chandra
Product Designer in Bengaluru, She/Her
About
For me, design is not just 'a part' of my life. It's the way I live. It's the way I think, act and feel. It's how I toil through everyday problems
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Projects
This is a full fledged UI+UX personal project that I have taken up. Involves critical thinking, problem solving and visual design skills. This project is currently in progress.
A UX research case study on online travel communities, particularly Tripoto. Covered the following research methods: Quantitative & Qualitative primary research, Secondary research, Competitive Analysis, Hypothesis validation, Affinity mapping, Personas and Journey map creation.
A freelance UX research project on the state of small businesses in India. Covered the following research methods: User interviews, In-depth secondary research, Competitive analysis, Affinity mapping, Persona creation. Further to this, I also helped in defining the problem statement to focus on, user flows and Information Architecture
Work Experience
Worked on 3 projects as part of Cohort 3.
Learnt extensively about UX research, UX Design, UI Design, Figma, Problem Solving and Analytics.
Product: Advanced Threat Defense
BU: Enterprise
- Worked on UI development using ExtJS and PHP
- Contributed to 5+ new features in the product UI
- Resolved 10+ issues related to product UI
- Also took ownership of Django deployment and maintenance of ATD's licensing server
Lead the PR Team of McAfee India's only Toastmasters club, Rock The Talk. Was in charge of managing the social media presence of the club, designing posters, club newsletter and other PR material.
As part of this, I teach 'Understanding Understanding' to Pre-University students. It involves touching upon many psychological theories, experiments and learnings which help in understanding how the human brain functions and how you can leverage that to your advantage.
Education
- Student representative for all 4 years
- Worked as the Team Lead and Product Designer for the final year project - 'Opimized disaster rescue operations using image recognition'
- Organized Hackwell, a 24 hour hackathon hosted by JSSATEB in association with Honeywell
- Took responsibilities of and organized various events conducted as part of VERVE (one of the biggest inter-college techno cultural fests in Bengaluru) and ANVESHAN (a Computer Science Department fest)
- Hosted numerous events as an Emcee
- Took part in the Gigsy UI/UX challenge
- Partcipated (as a Team Lead) in The SIT Hackfest 2018 and stood one among the top 8 teams
- Participated (as a Team Lead) in KSIT SentinelHack 2018