Yesha Niranjan
Verified Expert in Design
Designer
Santa Clara, CA, United States
Toptal member since February 20, 2026
Yesha is a senior product designer with 6+ years of experience designing complex, AI-driven SaaS products. She's led end-to-end design for platform workflows, self-serve tools, and data-heavy systems, partnering closely with product and engineering to define system architecture and scalable patterns. Known for strong systems thinking and decision-driven UX, Yesha helps teams move from ambiguity to clarity and ship high-impact experiences that drive adoption and business outcomes.
Portfolio
Sensei AI Copilot for Teacher Workflows
ELGA: System-aware UX for Reliable Allocation
OAC: Mobile-first Operational Reporting for Field Teams
PlaeseAR: Wearable UX for Emotional Wellbeing
Energyze: Data-driven UX for Smarter Energy Decisions
Experience
- UX Design - 8 years
- Jira - 6 years
- Adobe Creative Suite - 6 years
- UX Research - 6 years
- Human-computer Interaction (HCI) - 6 years
- Figma - 6 years
- Product Design - 6 years
- AI-powered Product Design - 2 years
Tools
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Jira
Work Experience
Mobile UI/UX Designer
Lucid Finance
- Delivered 200+ high-fidelity screens across light and dark mode, covering authentication, onboarding, home dashboard, spend, invest, forecast, AI chat, settings, and paywall, fully production-ready for developer handoff.
- Designed three distinct AI entry-point patterns (ambient insight cards, AI Today bottom sheet, and a full AI chat screen) that embedded Lucid AI as a core product layer rather than a bolt-on chatbot feature.
- Delivered daily async design updates with rationale to the founding team, maintaining full alignment across a remote engagement.
- Designed a 5-screen Instagram-style Weekly Recap story flow with Spotify-inspired category breakdowns, dynamic CTAs, and deep-linked AI chat entry points driving re-engagement and feature discoverability.
- Built a 60+ screen clickable prototype in both light and dark mode, connecting the full end-to-end user journey from onboarding through AI chat, enabling founder-led stakeholder reviews without engineering involvement.
Founding UX Designer
Benesse
- Turned fragmented manual reporting into role-based operational workflows, reducing time-to-action from hours to minutes.
- Improved cross-team visibility and decision-making through responsive, scalable core flows.
- Established standardized workflow patterns and error-state handling to enable faster shipping without redesigning core surfaces.
- Reduced lesson planning and worksheet creation time from hours to minutes with guided AI workflows.
- Increased 1st-session activation by replacing blank prompts with curriculum-aware actions.
- Built responsible AI guardrails (bounded chat, safe actions, and human-in-the-loop review) to improve trust in AI outputs.
Product Designer
Kissht
- Led competitive analysis, persona development, and business gap mapping to inform product direction in a high-ambiguity fintech space.
- Clarified end-to-end user journeys to reduce friction in payments and visibility workflows.
- Translated research insights into actionable product recommendations for leadership and growth teams.
User Experience Designer
LEAD School
- Owned end-to-end UX for a multi-role SaaS platform, improving educator retention by 22%.
- Conducted 40+ user interviews and 20+ usability tests to unify IA across teacher, admin, and ops workflows.
- Built a scalable cross-platform design system adopted across product teams.
User Experience Designer
Morph Digital Solutions Pvt
- Led interaction design for immersive brand activations across mobile and web.
- Designed AR/VR experiences for global brands, balancing usability with high-craft visual interactions.
- Delivered high-fidelity prototypes that aligned stakeholder vision with technical feasibility.
User Experience Designer
Philips
- Designed a HoloLens application for fetal ultrasound monitoring used in internal R&D exploration.
- Secured internal buy-in and funding by demonstrating mixed-reality clinical workflows with Microsoft HoloLens.
- Collaborated with engineers and clinicians to validate usability in complex medical contexts.
Education
Master of Science Degree in Digital Arts (UI/UX Specialization)
International Technological University - Santa Clara, CA, USA
Postgraduate Diploma in Design and Innovation
Indian School of Design and Innovation - Mumbai, India
Bachelor of Technology Degree in Computer Science
Dharmsinh Desai University - Nadiad, GJ, India
Skills
Tools
FigJam, Google Slides, Confluence, Adobe Photoshop, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, Google Analytics, Canva, Jira, Airtable, Adobe Illustrator, HoloLens
Platforms
Figma, iOS, Mixpanel, Arduino, Webflow
Industry Expertise
Education, Marketing
Languages
HTML, Visual Design Language, CSS
Other
Framer, Design Thinking, Interaction Design (IxD), Human-computer Interaction (HCI), Web Usability, Digital Product Design, AI-powered Product Design, UX Design, Design Systems, Mobile UI, Mobile UX, Product Design, Responsive Web Apps, B2B, User Interface (UI), User Flows, Web App Design, SaaS Design, Responsive UI, User Research, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Web Design, UI Design, Dashboard Design, Agile, User Experience (UX), User Journey Maps, Design Reviews, Dashboards, User Testing, Cross-functional Team Collaboration, Customer Journey, High-fidelity Prototypes, Low-fidelity Prototypes, Usability Testing, Web Applications, Website Design, Information Architecture (IA), SaaS, Flow Diagrams, MVP Design, System Architecture Design, Visual Design, Systems Thinking, Web App UX, User Journeys, Wireframing, Prototyping, User Validation, Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Interactive Prototyping, Web UI, Web UX Design, UX Audits, Mobile App Design, Systems Design, Mobile Design, UX Strategy, Audits, Presentations, Mobile App UI, Mobile UX Design, Web App UI, App Design, User Experience Design, Interactive Prototypes, Web Dashboards, Stakeholder Management, Iterative Design, Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), AI Systems, Service Design, Design Leadership, Business to Business (B2B), Product Strategy, Ecosystem Design, Fintech Design, AI-enabled Applications, Layout Design, High-fidelity Mockups, Design Sprints, Animation, Conversational AI, Conversational Design, Front-end Design, Digital Design, Workflow Optimization, Brand Guidelines, Journey Mapping, Workflow Analysis, App UX, Visual Brand Guidelines, Data Visualization, Marketing Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Discovery Workshops, Accessibility, WCAG 2, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Branding, Tailwind UI, eCommerce, Agentic AI, Agentic Frameworks, Bots, Predictive Analytics, No-code Development, Claude Code, Full-stack, Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS), Fintech, Apps, Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), AI Design, CRM, AI Chatbots, Chatbots, Front-end Development, WCAG 3, Cursor AI, Claude Design, Brand Design, Android SDK, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Machine Learning, System UI, Adobe Creative Cloud, Project Management, JavaScript Libraries, Unity3D, Mixed Reality (MR), Validated User Research, Product Branding, Usability Analysis, Mixed Method Research, Qualitative Research, Product Analytics, Focus Groups, Competitive Analysis, B2C, SaaS UX Consulting, Mental Model, Enterprise SaaS, ERP Systems, UX Research, Navigation Redesign, AI Product Strategy, Human-centered AI, User Workflows, Complex Problem Solving, Web Saas, Quantitative Research, User Adoption, UI Prototyping, Wearable Technology, Healthtech, Experimental Design, Storyboarding, Behavioral Design, Productivity, Click-through Rates (CTR), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), AI Art Generator
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