About
👋🏼 Hey there, I'm an avid and tech-savvy UI/UX designer with a strong foundation based in Product Design and I thrive on taking up complex problems and transforming them into refined, user-centric design solutions. With 2 years of UI/UX design experience under my belt, I’ve come to understand and appreciate design solutions that bridge the gap between functionality and aesthetics. Feel free to check out some of my work here - https://www.behance.net/hrishikkakade My Professional Expertise; As a UI/UX Designer at a mid-sized startup, I’ve had the privilege of corresponding with diverse teams comprising industry experts from their fields. Being in a start-up environment allowed me to not only sharpen my skills as a UI/UX designer but to also branch out into other aspects of what it takes to run a company and deliver good products. This ranged from sitting down with end users to understand their pains understand the business aspirations of various stakeholders and then delivering a design that maintained a healthy balance of the two, To also ensuring the quality of the end product with intense collaboration with the tech team. I’ve come to excel in laying out information architecture, crafting wireframes, and highly functional interactive prototypes. Bringing a polished user interface that optimizes user journeys and enhances overall usability. My Design Journey; I began my journey as a Product Design graduate from Symbiosis Institute of Design, where I honed my skills in understanding the intricacies of user needs and behaviors and how to translate those into intuitive design solutions. I have learned to utilize empathy as a tool to get into the shoes of users and use that understanding to create designs that resonate with their needs and aspirations.
Work experience
Senior UI/UX Designer - Founding Team at Astuto, Sep 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
UI/UX Designer at Kristal.AI, May 2023 - Sep 2023 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Associate UI-UX Designer at Kristal.AI, Oct 2021 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Kristal is a wealth advisory and fund management group serving accredited investors and mass affluent clients globally. While we offer curated ETFs and AI-managed portfolios to retail investors, we specialize in serving emerging HNWIs with sophisticated and personalized investment ideas of Pre-IPO deals, PE funds, VC funds, Hedge Funds, structured notes etc. We are bringing private banking experience within the reach of many.
Graphic Designer at Young India's Parliament, Mar 2020 - Jun 2020 · 4 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Worked as a Graphics Designer for a youth parliament & educational organization where I primarily curated social media posts and designed other branding deliverables such as posters, illustrations, guidebooks, and brochures.
Computer Aided Design Designer at Ideas2IPR, Aug 2019 - Feb 2020 · 7 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Worked as a CAD designer creating CAD models and tweaking mechanisms for patent-pending products, helping create complex internal layouts with fully labeled 3D models and CAD drawings. The firm was able to secure patents for 6 products and mechanisms using the models I helped create.
