Dhruv Chaudhari

Digital Product Designer focused on integrating human behaviour, design, and data

Pune, India, IST

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About

I'm a User Experience Designer and Researcher who is deeply interested in human behaviour, design, and data. I have an academic background in psychology and statistics and I'm interested in combining insights about human cognition with rigorous research in my design approach to create products that solve users' problems and are delightful to use. I love cooking, I'm a history and languages nerd, and I enjoy listening to film scores.

Work Experience

Asynchron Labs
Contract

April 2024 - April 2024

Product Designer

Designed flows for 2 core features of a Social Commerce mobile app MVP. Also designed the initial visual identity, styles, resposive components, and seed round pitch deck.
Figma
UX Design
UI Design
Design System
Prototyping
UX Writing
Logo Design
Pitch Deck Design
UX Research and Strategy

Freelance
Pune, India

February 2024 -

UX / Web Designer

Designing (primarily) web and mobile interfaces. Building responsive websites using static frameworks such as Jekyll, or using site builders. Also maintaining sites - DNS configuration, domain email, etc. Clients include VSCAPE Architects, Studio Transcendence.
Figma
Web Design
UX Research
UI Design
CSS

Dropout Academy
Remote

August 2023 - March 2024

Product Design Trainee

Implemented the design thinking process to design a mobile app: from empathizing with users to usability testing. Iterated design based on feedback from Senior Designers (mentors). Learned about design systems and created one for the app.
Figma
Product Thinking Framework
User Research
UI Design
Design Systems
Prototyping

Zopiqa
Remote

March 2023 - April 2023

Equity Research Analyst Intern

Analyzed news-related changes in companies’ stock prices and indices in the U.S financial markets for informing equity/derivatives trading decisions. Prepared news reports daily (based on earnings calls, management news, etc.) before the market opened. Built spreadsheets to analyze SP500 moving averages, trends, and volatility.
Excel
Python
Secondary Research
Financial Analysis

Tatvita Analysts
Remote

December 2022 - December 2022

Research Intern

Conducted secondary research on two key sectors under India's Production Linked Incentive scheme using government publications, annual reports of ministries, and government databases. Wrote 8 analytical articles, with data analysis and visualizations, explaining the facets and impacts of PLI on the sectors.
Secondary Research
Analytical Writing
Data Visualization
Data Analysis

DY Patil Medical College, Hospital, and Research Center
Remote

June 2022 - July 2022

Research Intern - Data Analysis

Cleaned, analyzed, and visualized research data using Excel and R. (Exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, chi-squared tests and Cramér’s V analysis, plots)
Research Data Analysis
R
Data Visualization
Data Cleaning

Greenovate Solutions
Hybrid

September 2021 - September 2021

Content Development Intern

Created videos and designed posts to develop credibility and highlight accolades of the company
Video Editing
Graphic Design

Panoslice
Remote

March 2021 - June 2021

Video Editor/Marketing Intern

Made marketing and tutorial content : PanoSlice Android App Promo video for Play Store and ProductHunt listings, Short tutorial videos for Instagram reels, and a 7-part tutorial series for IGTV and YouTube, Posts and videos to showcase app features.
Video Editing
Motion Graphics
Content Marketing

Enterprise India Fellowship
Pune, India

September 2018 -

Fellow

One-year enterpreneurship fellowship. Worked on real life projects, from research to development to selling. Developed a physics-based DIY educational toy using a design thinking approach. Designed on AutoCAD, iterated prototypes, got it manufactured, and sold ~200 units.
Design Thinking
AutoCAD
Video Editing
Presentation Skills
Sales

Education

University of Pune

2020 - 2023
Bachelor's in Liberal Arts - Psychology with minor in Statistics. GPA: 9.83
Human Machine Interaction (Applied Psychology)
Applied Statistics
Hypothesis Testing
Research Methods and Design
Visual Art
Technical Writing
Instructional Design
Photoshop & Illustrator
Quantitative Reasoning

Skills

Figma
UX Research
UI Design
Cognitive Psychology
R (Statistics)
Davinci Resolve (Video Editing)
Data Analytics

Projects

Tradesmen - Service Booking App

Bridging the gap between local service providers and consumers - UX/UI Case Study

Figma
FigJam
Google Forms
Notion

VSCAPE Architects - Website

Designed and built responsive website for VSCAPE Architects, an architecture and interior design firm.

Freelance
Figma
CSS
Low-code

Studio Transcendence - Website

Designed and built a responsive website for Studio Transcendence - an interior design studio

Freelance
CSS
Figma
Web Design

Social Commerce App (Not public yet)

Designed flows for 2 main app features (10+ screens). Also designed inital visual identity, brand assets, design system, and seed round pitch deck.

Freelance
Figma

White Cloud - Visual Identity Design

White Cloud is an upcoming laundry-services store in Pune. Currently designing the visual identity of the brand and assets such as the logo and shop banner.

Freelance
Figma

Can personality traits and attitudes toward money help predict Financial Risk Tolerance?

Undergraduate thesis - 150+ participants. Did correlation analysis, built multiple linear regression based predictive model.

R
LaTeX
Research Design
Data Visualization
Quantitative Research

Catapult - Educational Toy

Designed a physics educational toy. Talked and tested with users, iterated prototypes. Manufactured and sold ~200 units.

AutoCAD
Design Thinking
Product Design
Prototyping
Sales