Résumé · Updated September 2026

The one‑page version.
Research, product design and the front end that ships.

The one‑page version.
Research, product design and the front end that ships.

The one‑page version.
Research, product design and the front end that ships.

Product Designer with 5+ years turning complex B2B and AI workflows into shipped products: a sales tool used by ~100 people and a website channel driving ~15–17% of revenue at Firefly, 150+ flows shipped to a 5,000-invite beta at DADO. Owns research, information architecture, design systems and the React front end; expert in Figma and usability testing.

Atharva Ruikar resume, page one

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Experience

Five years, three roles

Aug 2026 → Present

Product Designer

DADO Luxury Ventures Inc. (founding team)

· Led design of three launch products (One Big Wish group gifting, member Accounts, The Edit editorial) with the founders and engineering: user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, high-fidelity UI and shipped code.

· Shipped 150+ user flows and 140 screens to a 5,000-invite beta that reached ~5K users in its first 8 weeks (GA4), designing in Figma and building in React, TypeScript and Tailwind with Claude Code, with Amplitude and Sentry live at launch.

· Led the One Big Wish contribution journey: prototyped in Figma and shipped a pledge-then-charge checkout with Apple Pay and Google Pay, then cut manual admin checks from 3 to 2 by choosing automated delivery pricing over admin hand entry.

· Designed an 18-tab internal operations console so the team handles pledges, charges, refunds and moderation faster without engineering help, with roles, permissions and approval states; also closed five live PII exposures server-side.

· Set up and govern the design system across Figma and code (154 tokens, variants, email templates, WCAG 2.1 AA), so the team ships new screens faster and new designers build without reinventing components.

· Set up pre-launch QA and usability testing: 300+ test cases across nine areas with eight testers; triaged 38 failures with engineering by user impact and redesigned the pages behind them, raising the pass rate from 81% to 100% before launch.

150+

150+

150+

user flows shipped

user flows shipped

Aug 2024 → May 2026

UX Teaching Assistant and UX Research Assistant

Arizona State University

· Coached 325 students across six UX courses through design critique and rubric-based review of information architecture, wireframes, prototypes and usability-testing plans on 120+ projects; ran accessibility reviews of 115+ web projects.

· Led mixed-methods user research on older adults’ adoption of in-home healthcare robots: synthesized 40+ studies into six usability and trust barriers and designed the survey instruments behind two IRB-ready proposals.

· Modeled four end-to-end user flows for human-robot interaction scenarios in Miro and planned the usability and trust evaluation with the faculty research team.

325

325

325

students coached

students coached

Jan 2021 → Jul 2024

UX Designer

Firefly Fire Pumps Pvt. Ltd.

· Structured the information architecture of an internal sales tool for ~100 sales and operations users: 8 modules on one user flow from inquiry to handoff, replacing each rep’s spreadsheets and PDF catalogs; built by partner MID from Figma specs.

· Designed the 4-layer product catalogue and selection and comparison flow from user research with sales reps, so products were easier to find and quotes went out faster; won stakeholder alignment in walkthroughs before build.

· Co-designed the B2B website structure, responsive page templates and lead-generation enquiry paths with a second designer; website enquiries now convert into ~15–17% of annual revenue (~$1.9M), per the Director of Sales and Marketing.

· Organized variants and library structure for a shared Figma design system used by the tool, website and both dev partners.

· As the only designer for 19 months, took the website through its 2023 launch and kept post-launch releases on schedule, owning developer handoff and design QA with the external development team.

~15–17%

~15–17%

~15–17%

of revenue from web enquiries

of revenue from web enquiries

Skills

What I reach for, grouped by the job

01

UX & Product Design

Personas

Product Design

0-to-1 Product Design

UX/UI Design

Interaction Design

Information Architecture

User Flows

Task Flows

Wireframing

Prototyping

High-Fidelity UI

Visual Design

Branding

Typography

Dashboards

Journey Mapping

Responsive and Mobile-First Design

Edge Cases and Error States

02

Research & Validation

Quantitative Research

User Research

Mixed-Methods Research

User Interviews

Surveys (Qualtrics)

Usability Testing

Heuristic Evaluation

Card Sorting

Competitive Analysis

Research Synthesis

Stakeholder Walkthroughs

03

Design Systems & Accessibility

Design Systems

Component Libraries

Design Tokens

Figma Variables

Auto Layout and Variants

Design QA

Design-to-Dev Handoff

Accessibility (WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA)

04

Product & Collaboration

Product Strategy

PRDs

User Stories

Requirements Gathering

Stakeholder Alignment

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Agile/Scrum

B2B SaaS

Internal Tools

E-commerce

Payments

Marketplaces

05

Engineering & Data

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

React

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

Supabase

SQL

Product Analytics (Amplitude, GA4)

Sentry

06

AI & Tools

Figma

FigJam

Framer

Miro

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

v0

Prompt Engineering

AI Product Design

Human-in-the-Loop AI

Education and publication

Two degrees and one paper

May 2026

May 2026

Master of Science, User Experience

Arizona State University · GPA 4.00/4.00

June 2024

June 2024

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering

Shivaji University · CGPA 8.57/10

2023

2023

QRxPERT, co-author

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