Professional Experience

Senior Product Designer Uber 2022-Current

  • Leading the product design for enterprise tools that drive career development, recognition, feedback, and performance management.

  • Systematically explore the problem space for Uber’s performance & growth products and align design concepts and direction with high level objectives and principles for stakeholder buy-in.

User Experience Designer Robert Half 2019-2022

  • Designing internal systems and optimizing the digital workplace experience for Robert Half employees. Collaborate with product managers, business partners, and engineers to define product architecture, design strategy, requirements, and roadmap.

User Experience Designer Consultant 2018-2019

  • Worked closely with stakeholders to refine product branding and vision; not limited to the creation of high fidelity prototypes and mock-ups for desktop applications, website redesigns, feature enhancements, and logo designs.

Behavior Designer & Research Associate University of California San Francisco 2009-2017

  • Conduct and coordinate usability testing; manage implementation by research staff and personnel.

  • Research, strategy, and launch behavior modification protocols for a 10+ campus vivarium.

  • Implement new and efficient morphometric data analysis for identifying and quantifying viable neuronal structure; Co-author for research manuscripts and abstracts.

Awards & Recognition

4 Finest Portfolios of Uber Designers by Arpit Chandak 2023, Medium

{ RHight On Award 2021 } A prestigious award that recognizes corporate employees for excellence. This award is peer nominated, and submissions are reviewed by several panels of organization leadership at Robert Half.

Education

User Experience Design Program, 2018 University of California, Berkeley

Foundations of UX, UI, product management, front-end web development, and articulating user-centric design decisions. Utilized industry-standard best practices and tools to deliver high fidelity mocks, clickable prototypes, and case study presentations focused on the end to end design process.

B.S., Biology, 2009 California State University, San Jose

Publications

AAV-Mediated Neurotrophin Gene Therapy Promotes Improved Survival of Cochlear Spiral Ganglion Neurons in Neonatally Deafened Cats: Comparison of AAV2-hBDNF and AAV5-hGDNF.

Leake, Patricia & Rebscher, Stephen & Dore, Chantale & Akil, Omar. (2019). Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. 20. 10.1007/s10162-019-00723-5.

Featured Skills & Tools

  • Design ++

    Auto-layout, UI pattern library, prototyping, visual assets, user flows, interactive flows, plugins <3

  • Front End Programming

    HTML, CSS, Javascript

  • Miro-boarding

    Collaborate with cross functional teams; share early ideation flows, discovery, and so much more with Miro!

  • Usability & Research

    Knowledgeable in standing up and facilitating testing with the following platforms.

  • Microsoft SharePoint

    Extensive knowledge of classic SP and modern SP framework for internal content design & custom SPfx web parts and extensions

  • Adobe Creative

    Visual design skills and working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, and XD.