Senior Interaction Designer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Interaction Designer
Mountain View, California
Rodan + Fields
UX Design Manager
July 2016 to January 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Rodan + Fields
Senior UX Designer
January 2015 to July 2016
San Francisco, CA
Stealth Startup in the Mobile App Space
Designer
July 2013 to October 2013
San Francisco Bay Area
NASA Ames Research Center
Co-Project Manager (Graduate Capstone Project)
January 2011 to August 2011
Moffett Field, CA
CSC
IT Associate Consultant
May 2007 to October 2008
Greater Denver Area
THALES RAYTHEON Systems
Part-Time Student Intern
January 2006 to June 2006
Fullerton, CA
The Boeing Company
Full-Time Information Technology Intern
June 2005 to September 2005
Refresh Inc.
Senior UX Designer
November 2013 to December 2014
Mountain View, CA
Salesforce
Interaction Designer
September 2011 to July 2013
San Francisco, CA
CSC
SAP Staff Consultant
October 2008 to October 2009
Newport Beach, CA
UC Irvine
Peer Academic Advisor
September 2005 to March 2007
What company does Nisha Desai work for?
Nisha Desai works for Google
What is Nisha Desai's role at Google?
Nisha Desai is Senior Interaction Designer
What industry does Nisha Desai work in?
Nisha Desai works in the Internet industry.
Who are Nisha Desai's colleagues?
Nisha Desai's colleagues are Ankur Bapna, Alexander Taylor, Yuanxu L., Simon Baumgartner, Noah Dietz, Di Wu, Mitchell Fierro, Michael Oh, Diana Salsbury, and Eduardo Ruiz
💼 Past Experience
Nisha Desai's work experience:Senior Interaction Designer at GoogleNisha Desai is currently a Senior Interaction Designer at Google in Mountain View, California. Design Lead on Google Analytics. UX Design Manager at Rodan + Fields from July 2016 to January 2018 (1 year 7 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. Manager and design lead for the R+F Business Suite, a set of tools Consultants use to understand and track their performance, manage their teams and customers, and grow their businesses. Consultants are the exclusive marketing and sales drivers for Rodan + Field’s digital-only commerce operation. Rodan + Fields is currently the number one premium skincare brand in America.Senior UX Designer at Rodan + Fields from January 2015 to July 2016 (1 year 7 months) in San Francisco, CA. Re-imagined and rewritten Pulse, the mobile-first business tool Consultants use to track their performance and manage their teams and customers. Evangelized and used design thinking processes to collaborate with business stakeholders and experts, achieving buy-in for the product team. Promoted to UX Manager to oversee the success of this tool, in addition to the entire digital user experience of our R+F Business Suite. Designer at Stealth Startup in the Mobile App Space from July 2013 to October 2013 (4 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. Designed the user experience for a product that will make "work" fundamentally better on phones and tablets. Developed the new user experience and user growth strategy in addition to user experience design, which included conducting user research, creating wireframes and prototypes, and delivering final visuals specifications for developers.Co-Project Manager (Graduate Capstone Project) at NASA Ames Research Center from January 2011 to August 2011 (8 months) in Moffett Field, CA. Created an iPad application to allow the public to view real-time astronaut schedules and images from the station, while learning more about the crew and current experiments onboard the International Space Station. IT Associate Consultant at CSC from May 2007 to October 2008 (1 year 6 months) in Greater Denver Area. Organized and managed the CSC team during an SAP ERP implementation on the client site at the United Launch Alliance (ULA). Interacted with the business, client, and external vendors to help define and finalize business requirements.Part-Time Student Intern at THALES RAYTHEON Systems from January 2006 to June 2006 (6 months) in Fullerton, CA. Programmed in Java for a simulation which calculates the number of military personnel that were killed or missing in action, their food rations, and other such values. Full-Time Information Technology Intern at The Boeing Company from June 2005 to September 2005 (4 months). Earned the Pride @ Boeing Accomplishment Award for excellent work maintaining professional sites on the intranet and external web using Adobe products. Senior UX Designer at Refresh Inc. from November 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 2 months) in Mountain View, CA. Acquired by LinkedIn. Led the design team to improve the user experience (user research and design) for Refresh, an application that aimed to help individuals
🎓 Education
Nisha Desai received her undergraduate degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. After two years of study, she completed her degree in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. Her undergraduate degree in computer science from University of California, Irvine in 2003 taught herformatting,yssey and graphical user interfaces.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Nisha Desai has a B.A. from Columbia University with a focus in Interaction Design and a concurrent enrollment in courses in linguistics and economics. After graduating, she worked as a design professional for two years with several companies before landing at Google where she met her current supervisor, working on various projects in the UX and product design space.In her previous roles, Nisha Desai has been credited with creating a user experience design aesthetic that is both user-friendly and ergonomic, while also involving her in more Critical thinking processes to collaborate with business stakeholders and experts. Most notably, she was able to promote her skills to UX Manager at Rodan + Fields where she oversaw the success of the company's entire digital user experience. During her time at Stealth Startup, a mobile app development company, she designed the user experience for a product that will make "work" fundamentally better on phones and tablets.Since her time at Google, Nisha Desai has also worked on a project for LinkedIn as an IT Associate Consultant. In this role, she collaborated with the business, client, and external vendors to help define and finalize business requirements. In addition, she also led a brown bag for her colleagues with a few projects she's worked on over the years.In her spare time, she enjoys educator and personal development seminars,particularly those focused on taking control of one's own personal productivity.
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