NIVEDITA KHANDEKAR

SKILLS & TOOLS

CONTACT

Instructional & UX Designer,San Francisco-Bay Area, USA

– Five years of experience as a UX Designer, professional and freelance/voluntary

– A strong academic background in Instructional Technologies and UX/UI Design

– Familiarity with UX/UI design process and Dick and Carey (ADDIE variation) model for instructional design

– Pro�cient in Information Architecture, App design, and User-research.

– Skilled in Adobe Captivate, Illustrator, Photoshop, Articulate Storyline, HTML/CSS

– Interested in Adult Education, Usability Testing, and Service and Systems design

UX Designer (Oct 2012 to present)Self-employed, India - Bay-area (USA)

– Design of two responsive websites, a web portal and a college alumni network

– Information architecture and Interaction design for two iPhone apps

Design Associate (Aug, 2011 to Sep 2012)Moonraft Innovation Labs, Bengaluru, India

– Requirement gathering and Information Architecture for several mobile and tablet apps and web-based projects

– Independently coordinating projects with internal teams and customers

– Working with the development team until product delivery

– Creating design speci�cation documents

Design Intern (Jan to Jul 2011)Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bengaluru, India

– Completed an end-to-end UX project on a novel projection and capture device meant for virtual table top interaction

– Found use-cases through an elaborate user-study

– Designed user interface and de�ned gestural interactions

– Research disclosure based on the project, titled “Gesture Vocabulary for a table-top projection and capture system” was selected for publication

Assistant Software Engineer Trainee (Sep 2008 to Jun 2009)Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Bengaluru, India

– Got trained in software engineering modules and object oriented programming

ABOUT

EXPERIENCE

Adobe Creative Suite

Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash,

Dreamweaver, InDesign, Audition

Programming/Prototyping

HTML/CSS, Wordpress con�guration,

Java (basics), ActionScript 3(basics), MIT

App Inventor, Balsamiq, Axure

Area Expertise

E-Learning Design and Development,

Information Architecture, User Research,

Requirement Gathering, Mobile and

Tablet apps, Responsive Design, Team

Work, Project Collaboration

Rapid e-learning development

Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline,

Power-point with Adobe Presenter

nive.khandekar@gmail.com

650-878-7195

http://be.net/intrigued

in/niveditakhandekar

Post Graduate Diploma in Design (2009 -11)

Design for Digital Experience, National Institute of Design, India

– Team won 3rd prize in a national level mobile app design competition for promotion of vernacular languages called “Bhasha” organized by Nokia Research Labs (2011)

– Poster presentation at India HCI, Bangalore, India (2011) on “Indian Languages in Mobiles: Popularity and Ways of Practice”

– Presentation at USID Academic Showcase, Hyderabad, India (2010) on “Befriending Technology - Understanding and Communicating the meaning of neurodignostic equipment”

Master of Arts (Expected May, 2016)Instructional Technologies, San Francisco State University, USA

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering (2004 -08)

Electronics and Communication, Jabalpur Engineering College, India