Juhi Patel

Experience

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  Sugar Butter Flour

  Jan 2019 - Sept 2019

  Sales Associate

  ✦ Offered personalized cake design and flavor suggestions, facilitating custom cake orders to meet individual customer preferences.✦ Engaged customers actively, driving sales through recommendations of pastry items and maintaining a welcoming and organized storefront environment.✦ Managed financial transactions and purchases efficiently, ensuring accurate accounting and seamless checkout experiences.

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  Girls Who Code

  Aug 2020 - Sept 2021

  External Head of Affairs

  ✦ Led the social media strategy and designed online posts and flyers to promote the Girls Who Code College Loops chapter at UCI, advocating for closing the gender gap in the tech industry.✦ Promoted the ideals of sisterhood and collaboration while serving as the External Head of Affairs on the founding executive team.

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  Design at UCI

  Oct 2020 - Dec 2022

  ✦ Led and mentored diverse project teams comprised of beginner/intermediate designers through 6-week design case study projects each quarter, fostering skill development and collaboration.✦ Facilitated design workshops attended by 50+ participants, providing comprehensive guidance throughout the design process while actively participating in general and board meetings. ✦ Actively engaged in design events and contributed to weekly meetings, fostering a vibrant design community on campus. ✦ Led a 4-member team through a rigorous 6-week design cycle aimed at redesigning the UCI Degreeworks webpage, overseeing all aspects from initial concept to final implementation.✦ Guided user research initiatives through surveys and interviews, translating findings into wireframes and a high-fidelity prototype using Figma, resulting in a final demo presentation showcasing the design solutions.

  • Project Teams Coordinator

    Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Member

    Sept 2020 - Dec 2022

  • Project Team Leader

    Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
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  SuperWorld

  Nov 2020 - Feb 2021

  UI/UX Design Intern

  Crafted user flows, developed high-fidelity wireframes, and built prototypes using Adobe XD. Collaborating closely with product managers, front-end developers, and executives, I ensured alignment with project requirements. Working within a globally distributed team of project managers, software engineers, QA engineers, and UI/UX designers, I contributed to Agile practices, fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment.✦ Built user flows to illustrate the platform's potential in optimizing user experience for virtual land transactions, focusing on usability enhancements.✦ Designed the Real Estate Marketplace across multiple devices, ensuring consistency and functionality across desktop, mobile, and tablet platforms.✦ Collaborated on enhancing existing features to elevate the overall user experience within the virtual environment, contributing to a more immersive and engaging platform. Show less

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  UC Institute for Prediction Technology

  Apr 2021 - Sept 2021

  Research Assistant

  ✦ Analyzed and labeled social media data for machine learning analysis, enhancing AI software designed to combat COVID-19 misinformation on platforms like Twitter and Instagram.✦ Organized and hosted Clubhouse discussions on the global impacts of technology, engaging with experts and participants to explore its effects on the current world impacted by the pandemic.

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  UC Irvine

  Sept 2021 - Mar 2022

  Academic Technology Assistant

  ✦ Facilitated a smooth hybrid learning environment, ensuring effective teaching and learning experiences for both professors and students.✦ Assisted professors and students with lectern computers, Zoom, Yuja lecture capture, and troubleshooting technical issues in hybrid classrooms.

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  Commit the Change, UCI

  Oct 2021 - Jun 2022

  UI/UX Designer

  ✦ Conducted user research and created wireframes for a mobile app that helps users find local recycling and donation centers.✦ Collaborated with a team of three developers, providing design updates in weekly meetings.

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  Everyset (formerly Castifi)

  Feb 2022 - Sept 2022

  UI/UX Designer

  Initiated a redesign of the casting platform to enhance user-friendliness. This involved conducting extensive user research, analyzing data using Miro, and creating wireframes and prototypes on Figma. Collaborated with teams to analyze market needs and customer preferences, setting design requirements and ensuring quality assurance for new features.✦ Redesigned the existing casting platform on mobile and desktop through rebranding, restructuring, and integrating intuitive features to boost efficiency, productivity, and user-friendliness.✦ Presented the final high-fidelity prototype to the executive team and stakeholders. Show less

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  Persistent Systems

  Feb 2023 - May 2023

  UX Designer

  Spearheaded the end-to-end UI/UX development process for healthcare industry clients, using Adobe XD. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, I executed iterative designs to align with key stakeholder objectives. Additionally, I prioritized data privacy standards to ensure seamless integration of security measures.✦ Designed a data visualization platform for Social Determinants of Health, enhancing patient data visibility and contributing to platform development and implementation for healthcare clients.✦ Enhanced functionality of claims management platforms, improving visibility into claims status and organizing patient information for health insurance clients. Show less

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  West Monroe

  Jul 2023 - now

  Product Designer

  As a product designer in the Product Experience and Engineering Lab (PXEL), I completed several design cycles for clients in various industries, conducting user research and facilitating ideation workshops to create human-centered solutions. I collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to turn business requirements into visually appealing and functional designs.✦ Reimagined key user experiences for a leading American workwear brand and a nationwide healthcare payer by conducting ideation workshops, creating journey maps, and developing design concepts.✦ Conducted user research via surveys and interviews to develop high-fidelity prototype concepts and journey maps, securing client contracts in HR compliance and nonprofit sectors.✦ Collaborated with a non-profit and a team of developers to redesign and launch their newly rebranded and restructured website.✦ Supported internal business development initiatives by creating design concepts, illustrations, and presentations to drive client acquisition and foster company growth. Show less