Shalini Raghunathan

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience

Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned design leader in SaaS and customer experience innovation.

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Contextual InquiryDesign StrategyExperience DesignHeuristic EvaluationInformation ArchitectureInteraction DesignPeople Centered ResearchService DesignUsabilityUsability TestingUser ExperienceUser Experience (UX)User Experience DesignUser InterfaceUser Interface Design

About

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.

Experience

3 big things.studio

Co-Founder

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Appdynamics

Director, Product Design

Oct 2021May 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Salesforce

Director, Design - Ignite (Strategic Innovation)

Sep 2017Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Autodesk

Principal Experience Designer

Oct 2012Sep 2017 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Infosys technologies ltd

2 roles

Senior User Experience Designer

Promoted

Oct 2005Oct 2011 · 6 yrs

Software Developer

Jun 2002Jul 2004 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Finacle - Banking Business Unit. Technologies Ltd., Bangalore.

Education

Jnanapravaha Mumbai

Diploma — Indian Aesthetics

Jul 2022Jun 2023

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Creative and Cultural Businesses Program — Executive Education

Jan 2019Jan 2020

D.J. Academy of Design

Post Graduate Certificate in Product Design — Product Design

Jan 2004Jan 2005

RV College Of Engineering

B. E. Electronics & Communications — Engineering

Jan 1997Jan 2001

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