Devagya Sharma

About

I'm a Design Engineer focused on creating scalable, accessible web and mobile experiences. I design interfaces and build prototypes that help teams work more efficiently while keeping accessibility and consistency at the center. I collaborate closely with designers and developers to ensure products are practical, maintainable, and ready for real users.

Experience

• Founding Product Designer · Center for Societal Aspiration09-01-2024 – 06-01-2025

  Led end-to-end design of an AI-driven platform, creating responsive, accessible (WCAG 2.1) Figma prototypes for web and mobile experiences in close collaboration with engineers and stakeholders. Developed a comprehensive Figma design system↗ to standardize visual components, enhance accessibility, and streamline future updates, enabling consistent branding and efficient collaboration across the team. Advocated for accessibility standards throughout the design process, ensuring compliance and inclusivity in all product features.

• Front-end Developer Research Assistant · Michigan Medicine02-01-2024 – 05-01-2024

  Designed and developed a multi-modal dashboard prototype for visualizing VR-based CPR training data, projected to enhance efficiency by 30% based on user testing feedback. Partnered with healthcare educators and a biomedical engineer to distill complex CPR performance metrics into clear, actionable insights, aiming to elevate the effectiveness of medical training technologies by 25%.

• Graduate Student Instructor · University of Michigan - School of Information08-01-2023 – 12-01-2023

  Instructed and mentored 75+ students in SI 520 Graphic Design and Visual Communication, fostering their design skills through lectures, hands-on projects, and individual guidance. Contributed to curriculum development, grading, and administrative tasks, ensuring effective course delivery while providing valuable student learning support.

• User Experience Fellow · City of Dearborn05-01-2023 – 07-01-2023

  Redesigned the public health website with a resource-centric approach, improving user experience and increasing accessibility compliance by 20%. Improved the Community Health Needs Assessment survey by optimizing questions and answers for clarity and cultural relevance, projecting a 25% increase in response rates and more actionable data quality based on industry best practices.

• Student Coordinator · Michigan Dining09-01-2022 – 05-01-2023

  Provided exceptional customer service by actively engaging with patrons, resolving concerns, and ensuring positive dining experiences. Achieved a 20% increase in efficiency among student workers under my supervision through strategic training and workflow optimization initiatives.

• Web Designer · DealerOn, Inc12-01-2024

  Migrated 180+ automotive dealership websites from Sincro to DealerOn’s CMS, improving accessibility (WCAG 2.1), usability, and mobile performance through responsive layouts, semantic HTML, and optimized JavaScript solutions. Achieved 95+ accessibility scores across projects by optimizing typography, layout structure, and user interaction patterns to reduce friction and improve engagement. Reduced migration time by 40% by implementing reusable design patterns and scalable HTML structures with minimal CSS that aligned with OEM’s design language, and performed A/B testing to refine and optimize the reusable code continuously. Served on the internal review team to QA sites for layout issues, accessibility gaps, and responsiveness, proactively identifying and resolving bugs before handoff.

Education

• University of MichiganMaster of Science - Information, UX Research and Design
• MIT World Peace UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science
• St. Xavier's High School, NagpurClass 10

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