Resume

Education

  • M.S. in Human—Computer Interaction | Depaul University, Chicago, USA | June 2025

  • Graduated with GPA: 3.85/4.0

  • Capstone Project: "Travelogue — Enhancing a Smart Travel Experience" — Designing a mobile application with onboarding experience and collaborative dashboard to simplify how travelers document, collaborate and share their experiences, from concept to prototype.

  • Relevant Coursework: Prototyping and Implementation, Information Architecture & Content Strategy, Usability Evaluation Methods, User Research Methods, Statistics and Data Analysis, Accessibility Considerations in HCI

  • B.Des. in Industrial Design | Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune, India

Experience

UX/UI Designer | Rebecca Everlene Trust Company

Chicago, IL | October 2025 - Present

  • Designed a scalable B2C medical education platform advancing children’s health literacy, supporting early exposure to medical information for 500+ families with structured modules driving 75% content completion.

  • Established a 120+ component design system to standardize visual guidelines and ensure baseline consistency across a growing product ecosystem.

UX/UI Designer | OptraHealth

San Jose, CA | Dec 2024 — Mar 2025

  • Designed core onboarding, gamified patient management and provider monitoring features for the pediatric healthcare platform, streamlining patient-provider interactions by 60% and increasing weekly engagement by 45%.

  • Collaborated with product and engineering to initiate a design system from scratch with 100+ UI components, establishing visual and interaction guidelines to ensure product consistency, developed in React & HTML5.

Product Designer | Onward Tech

Chicago, IL | July — Aug 2024

  • Partnered with EVP, product managers, and research team to design and ship a B2B hospital platform MVP, integrating AI-assisted diagnostic workflows and automated reporting features that enabled clinicians to complete end-to-end diagnostic tasks 80% faster.

  • Organized design critiques, usability testing sessions and 15+ stakeholder workshops, synthesizing design feedback to inform design decisions, refine research methodology, write PRDs and navigate wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and user testing. 

  • Worked directly with developers to evolve brand guidelines into the first design system, improving handoff clarity and ensuring functional consistency without dedicated design support.

Visual Designer | DAB Of India

Pune, India | Jan 2023 — Sept 2023

  • Designed standardized visual systems for a diverse brand portfolio, delivering 1k+ assets including style guides, typography, color, iconography and UI components, supporting rapid brand customization across 15+ client brands and reducing dependency on bespoke design.

  • Partnered with COO, marketing and product stakeholders to align design and business objectives, curate design pitch decks securing 5+ client acquisitions and resulting in a 40% increase in annual revenue.

Product Designer | Engineer's Cradle

Pune, India | Nov 2022 — Jan 2023

  • Piloted an educational dashboard and onboarding experience design for a SocioTech platform, aligning with designers, engineers and the founding team to curate an MVP-ready design system and establish a shared product foundation for early-stage growth.

Skills

  • Design: User Flows, Experience Mapping, Design Systems, UX Strategy, Prototyping, Interaction Design, Storytelling, Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)

  • Research: User Research,  Competitive Analysis, Usability Testing, Heuristic Evaluation, A/B Testing, User Persona, Survey Design, Journey Mapping, User Interview, Focus Groups

  • Technical: Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, Framer, Miro, Notion, HTML5/CSS, JavaScript, Python

Copyright © Eshani Somwanshi 2026

Copyright © Eshani Somwanshi 2026

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