Manisha Dewal

UX Researcher

New York, New York, United States9 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in User Experience Research and Design.
  • Led design initiatives for logistics optimization.
  • Advocate for women empowerment in tech.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a User Experience Specialist with a focus on Logistics and Technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

User Experience ResearchUser-centered DesignUser Experience DesignDesign ThinkingQuantitative ResearchWeb Development

Other Skills

Adobe Creative SuiteAndroid DevelopmentCSSCard SortingCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Contextual InquiryDesign of ExperimentsExperience DesignHTMLHuman Computer InteractionInteraction DesignJavaJavaScriptPersona CreationPresentation Skills

About

I am an engineer turned designer with a passion to craft flawless experiences by empathizing with the users. I focus on how the product feels. STRENGTHS: UX Research, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Generative Research, Evaluative Research

Experience

Meta

User Experience Researcher

Nov 2021Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · New York, New York, United States

  • Facebook Reality Labs
User Experience ResearchUser-centered Design

Optym

2 roles

Senior UX Researcher & Designer

Jul 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

User Experience ResearchUser Experience Design

UX Researcher & Designer

Jul 2018Jun 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Currently, I am leading the design of an ecosystem of products for the Pickup & Delivery (P&D)
  • industry to maximize their profits by planning and executing plans efficiently.
  • Product: RouteMAX is a suite to optimize last mile operations.
  • Role:
  • Incorporating emotional requirements along with core functional needs.
  • ・ Instated a process between the Design and the Agile Development team by
  • collaborating closely with PM, dev and marketing team
  • ・ Created research plans based on product’s vision, timeline and risks
  • ・ Facilitating design sprints & informing design through qualitative research results
  • ・ Translating complex workflows in P&D process to intuitive end-to-end user flows
  • ・ Presenting easy-to-understand research insights & test findings to stakeholders
User Experience ResearchUser Experience DesignPrototypingUser-centered DesignQualitative Research

University of florida

2 roles

User Experience Researcher - Human Experience Research Lab

Promoted

Nov 2017May 2018 · 6 mos

  • Entrepreneurial Diversity in Information Technology :
  • I am an advocate of women empowerment and became a part of the EDIT (Entrepreneurial Diversity in Information Technology) program advised by Dr. Juan Gilbert to promote women in tech.
  • EDIT program is helping 8 strong and passionate middle-aged women from the under-represented communities to start their own technology-based businesses.
  • We followed the Stanford design thinking approach to get their words & thoughts to executable ideas. While they learn the Entrepreneurship lessons under Dr. Wanda Eugene, a team of graduate & undergraduate students is working to get them an MVP based on the design specifications.
  • My Role: Worked closely with Dr, Wanda Eugene in the design thinking process, design documentation and creation of design specifications, designing interactions for IOT devices, studying kids voice interactions for voice interfaces and designing for virtual reality, following Agile methodologies and managing a team of undergraduate students to build the MVP for 3 inspiring ideas
User Experience ResearchDesign Thinking

Quantitative Researcher - Psychology Department - Behavioral Health and Technology Research Lab

Oct 2017Dec 2017 · 2 mos

  • Studied Behavior Analysis in the health domain using technological interventions
  • Statistical data analysis using Python to get insights on reinforcements of behavior
  • Technology: Python
Statistical data analysisPythonQuantitative Research

Hologic, inc.

User Experience Intern

Jun 2017Dec 2017 · 6 mos · Massachusetts

  • Created design documentation, developed UI using HTML, CSS & JavaScript
  • Designed studies & moderated usability testing for multiple platform applications
  • Decreased expense of outsourcing the development of custom home screens
  • Redesigned a satisfaction survey and analyzed metrics and reporting
  • User adoption strategies and implementation for service-based applications
  • Technologies and Tools: Mural, Photoshop, Balsamiq, MS Excel, HTML, CSS, Javascript
HTMLCSSJavaScriptUser Experience Design

Tavant

Software Engineer (Web Design and Development)

Aug 2015Jun 2016 · 10 mos · Bangalore

  • Improved and maintained full stack of a consumer lending web portal for a U.S. client
  • Developed Unit Tests using JUnit
  • Acquired domain knowledge in Finance and Mortgages
  • Collaborated in an Agile software development environment
  • Hosted corporate events an active member of the Tavant Community Building committee
  • Technologies : HTML, CSS, JS, Java, Spring Framework, Wicket, Oracle Database
HTMLCSSJavaJavaScriptWeb Development

Education

University of Florida

Master’s Degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2016Jan 2018

SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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