Divya Bhadargade
Digital Product Designer
A UI developer turned product designer. I love combining the process of design thinking with human emotions, attitudes, and behaviors to approach complex problems.
Professional Experience
Gap year
📆Jan 2021 - Present
- Took a planned pause to focus on life goals
- Upskilled me into a Digital product designer role.
UI Developer
Mercedes Benz Research and Development India, Banglore
📆Aug 2017- Jan 2021 🏣 Bengaluru
- Developed web application for car engineers. It increased their efficiency by 66%. As the application replaced multiple old legacy systems by data aggregation.
- Lead the team, served as the main point of contact amongst team and the stakeholders to drive effective communication throughout all project phases ensuring 100% on-time delivery.
- Analyzed existing interfaces to detect user pain points, recommending design changes and iterative updates to the product manager.
- Increasing customer satisfaction by 30%. Developed and maintained UI applications at the production level.
Initiatives
Facilitating people in a career break
📆Feb 2022- Mar 2022
- Conducted primary and secondary research to understand the intricacies of of career breaks.
📆Dec 2020- Jan 2021
Menstrual cup as a potential sanitary product
- Interviewed IT females of age range 23-27 to understand the mindset with respect to a menstrual cup.
- Developed a solution to break naive beliefs about the menstrual cups and increase their awareness.
