Shalini Raghunathan — Co-Founder
Shalini has 20+ years of experience as a design practitioner at Autodesk, Salesforce and Cisco. She blends People-Centered Research, Design Strategy and Storytelling to nurture creative collaboration and create meaningful business impact. She is the co-founder of 3 Big Things, a behavioural design studio that that helps organisations solve complex business problems focussing on Customer Experience Innovation and Organizational Culture Transformation. Her previous roles were at Cisco, Salesforce and Autodesk, among others. At Cisco, she was part of the global design leadership team for AppDynamics, a Full Stack Observability platform, designing for highly technical users in a complex domain. She evangelised a focus on customer over technology - embedding human experiences into the complex non-linear workflows that developers use and building a better understanding of the niche user base. She has led a human-centered approach to digital transformation journeys of leading multi-national brands at Salesforce, Ignite - a customer facing innovation team. She collaborated with cross-disciplinary teams to address some of the most interesting challenges of Salesforce's largest customers in India. At Autodesk, Shalini was part of the pioneering globally-distributed design team that built digital collaboration experiences for their flagship product design and manufacturing tool, Fusion 360. Shalini was a speaker at Autodesk’s Annual Global Experience Design Summit, at San Francisco. She was awarded a special CEO Award for her contributions. Shalini is passionate about Indic mythology, handicrafts, culture & philosophy. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Indian Aesthetics from Jnanapravaha, Mumbai.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned design leader in SaaS and customer experience innovation.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 19 yrs 7 mos
Career Highlights
- 20+ years of experience in design across top tech companies.
- Co-founder of a behavioral design studio focused on innovation.
- Awarded CEO Award for contributions at Autodesk.
Work Experience
3 Big Things.Studio
Co-Founder (2 yrs 6 mos)
AppDynamics
Director, Product Design (1 yr 7 mos)
Salesforce
Director, Design - Ignite (Strategic Innovation) (2 yrs 6 mos)
Autodesk
Principal Experience Designer (4 yrs 11 mos)
Infosys Technologies Ltd
Senior User Experience Designer (6 yrs)
Software Developer (2 yrs 1 mo)
Education
Diploma at Jnanapravaha Mumbai
Creative and Cultural Businesses Program at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Post Graduate Certificate in Product Design at D.J. Academy of Design
B. E. Electronics & Communications at RV College Of Engineering