👋 About

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Ex Lead UX Designer @Ford | MS HCI @IU Bloomington

💻 Techie → 🎨 Product Designer | 🔍 Researcher | 🧭 UX Strategist | 🇮🇳 → 🇺🇸 → 🇮🇳

🤖 Interests: AI-enhanced SaaS | D2C products | Democratizing AI using SLMs & hybrid AI systems

I bring 10+ years of experience crafting user-centered products that drive growth and business impact.

🚀 Journey

  • 👨‍💻 Started as a Software Developer (2011)

  • 🎓 Master’s in Human–Computer Interaction – Indiana University Bloomington (2018)

  • 🇺🇸 Worked in the U.S. as a UX Designer & Researcher across various industries

  • 🚘 𝓕𝓸𝓻𝓭 → Grew into a UX Project Lead, driving UX strategy and impactful solutions across multiple initiatives

🛠️ What I Do (End-to-End Product Strategy and Execution)

  • 🔍 User Research & Insights

  • 💡 Ideation & Problem Framing

  • 🧭 Information Architecture & User Flows

  • 🎨 Interaction & UI/UX Design

  • ⚡ Prototyping & Testing

  • { }  Code - AI-assisted full-stack development

  • 🤝 Dev Handoff & Presentations

🧩 Core Strengths

  • 🔗 Bridging Design × Development × Business goals

  • 🗣️ Stakeholder alignment & workshops

  • 🧪 Driving decisions through qualitative + quantitative research

  • ⚙️ Design-Dev Liaison

  • 🎯 Asking the right questions → leading to actionable insights and impactful products

♾️ Research & Design Toolkit

🔍 Research Methods

  • User Interviews • Contextual Inquiry • Focus Groups

  • Diary Studies • Usability Testing

  • Qual & Quant Analysis

🧰 Design Execution

  • Interaction Design • High-Fidelity UI/UX

  • Prototyping • Client Presentations & Pitches

🧵 UX Artifacts

  • Journey Maps • Personas • Empathy Maps

  • Affinity Mapping • User Flows • Information Architecture

🤖 Interests

  • AI-Powered SaaS, D2C, Enterprise UX

  • Exploring how AI can empower enterprises & SMBs

🌍 What Drives Me

🎨 Crafting delightful product experiences that help people
🧩 Solving complex problems at the intersection of people, design, and technology.

📍 Current Status

🚀 Actively exploring new opportunities
🎒 Open to relocation for the right role


📩 Say hi @ jvikasreddy@gmail.com

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