Riya Gowaikar

Riya Gowaikar

UX Designer in Duisburg, Germany, she/her

About

I'm Riya, a seasoned product designer with a passion for crafting seamless and user-centric digital experiences.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Redesigning Cognigy AI v4 platform with a new design system.

  • Assisted in refining the old design system. Cleaned up the design system to make way for newly created components.

  • Detailed documentation of the behaviours and states of all components in the new design system

2020 — Now
Co-founder at Pointless.design
Pune
  • Onboarding of new clients

  • Meetings with team members and resource onboarding

  • Working on a variety of projects for various customers

  • I've worked on UX design, product design, website redesign, branding, packaging, and logo design projects.

  • Prototyping, wireframes, low-fidelity, and high-fidelity designs User analysis and research

  • Worked with software such as Autodesk Fusion 360, Figma, Protopie, Keyshot, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Premier Pro

2022 — 2023
Bangalore
  • Research on existing smart products

  • Research on components of smart products that can be used in our products

  • Form sketches of concepts and modules

  • Create 3D models of finalized concepts

  • Prototyping

2022 — 2022
Pune
  • Understanding user behaviors, requirements, and motivations using observation techniques, task analysis, and other feedback procedures.

  • Creating diagrams that show the whole path a user takes while interacting with a product.

  • Examining how users behave while using a website (User Navigation Flow)

  • Created wireframes and visual representations of interactive goods that determine the structure and flow of potential design ideas.

  • UI designs, graphical user interfaces, and various sorts of user interfaces.

  • Testing many areas of user experience to discover the optimal method for a website and its parts to engage with its audience.

Education

2023 — Now
MSc Usability Engineering at Hochschule Rhein-Waal
Kamp-Lintfort, Germany
2019 — 2023
B.Des Product Design at Unitedworld Institute of Design
Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Certifications

2023
Human-Computer Interaction : The Foundations of UX Design from Interaction Design Foundation
2023
Perception and Memory in HCI and UX from Interaction Design Foundation

Contact

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