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Ananya Deshpande

UI/UX Designer (Entry-Level)

Pune, India • +91 98223 47190 • ananya.deshpande.design@gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/ananya-deshpande-ux

Portfolio: www.eliorexa.com/portfolio/ui-ux-designer-fresher

Professional Summary

Recent design graduate who takes products from research to polished, shippable UI in Figma. Comfortable across the full process — user interviews, wireframing, interactive prototyping, usability testing and accessible interaction design — and built a small design system from scratch. Turns messy problem spaces into clear, measurable design decisions, demonstrated across 3 end-to-end case studies and a live 3D portfolio.

Skills

Design: Figma, Wireframing, Prototyping, Interaction design, Visual & UI design, Design systems

Research: User research, User interviews, Usability testing, Personas, Journey mapping, Card sorting

Foundations: Accessibility (WCAG 2.1), Information architecture, Responsive layout, Typography, Design tokens

Tools: Figma, FigJam, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Maze, Notion

Core Competencies

Figma · wireframing · prototyping · user research · design systems · usability testing · interaction design · accessibility · UI/UX Designer

Work Experience

UX Design Intern — Quillstack Studio

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

Remote

  • Redesigned the onboarding flow for a budgeting app in Figma, cutting steps from 7 to 4 and lifting task-completion 22% in moderated usability testing.
  • Ran 12 user interviews and synthesized findings into 3 personas and a journey map that reframed the product backlog priorities.
  • Built 18 reusable components with variants and auto-layout, reducing new-screen design time ~30% for the two-person product team.
  • Audited 14 screens against WCAG 2.1 AA and fixed contrast and focus-order issues, raising the accessibility score from 68 to 94.

Projects

Tindi — community kitchen app — 89% task success

End-to-end case study for a meal-sharing app, from field research to high-fidelity prototype.

  • Conducted contextual interviews with 9 users, mapped the journey, and validated a clickable Figma prototype through 5 rounds of usability testing.
  • Iterated the booking flow on test findings, raising prototype task success from 61% to 89% before handoff.

Tech: User research, Figma, Prototyping, Usability testing

Lumen — accessible design system — 24 components

A small, token-driven design system built for a fictional fintech, with full Figma documentation.

  • Defined color, type and spacing tokens plus 24 documented components, all meeting WCAG 2.1 AA contrast.
  • Published interaction and state guidelines that let two designers ship consistent screens without a style review.

Tech: Design systems, Design tokens, Accessibility, Figma

Education

B.Des. Communication Design

2025

MIT Institute of Design, Pune

CGPA 8.9/10 · Coursework: Interaction Design, HCI, Design Research, Typography, Information Architecture

Certifications

  • Google UX Design (Professional Certificate) — Coursera (2024)
  • Foundations of UX: Accessibility — LinkedIn Learning (2025)