Shreesa Shrestha
Product Designer | UX Research, Design Systems & AI-Assisted React Prototyping
3 yrs experience · United States · <10 hrs/week
About
Product designer with 2+ years of experience in user research, wireframing, prototyping, and design systems for consumer and AI-powered products. Builds working React prototypes using Claude Code and the Anthropic API to let stakeholders test ideas in code. Comfortable running usability tests, translating findings into design decisions, and presenting work to cross-functional product and engineering teams.
Skills
Experience
- Product Designer · Develop for Good06-01-2025
● Redesigned a nonprofit donation flow from 6 steps to 2, raising completion rate 20%. ● Delivered developer ready Figma specs and documentation, cutting engineering onboarding time 15% for a team of 8+ contributors. ● Documented recurring transaction flow bugs and usability issues into structured engineering tickets, speeding up design to development handoff for a 2 person engineering team with limited capacity. ● Ran a competitive analysis across 5 platforms to define onboarding and gamification patterns for a B2B marketplace redesign.
- Product Design Fellow · Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)09-01-2025 – 05-31-2026
● Cut search result navigation from 3 taps to 1 for a 106,000+ piece artwork collection, designing a result card pattern that surfaced gallery location and on-view status inline, validated with 5 users. ● Built AI-assisted React prototypes using Claude Code and the Anthropic API to test interaction logic with stakeholders. ● Designed recommendation features, including popular searches and curated themes, that simplified navigation for undecided users browsing the collection. ● Presented design research and prototypes to MoMA's Digital Product Design team.
- UX Consultant · Center for Digital Experiences, Pratt Institute03-01-2025 – 05-31-2026
● Conducted usability testing and accessibility audits against 10+ WCAG criteria for Wikimedia Foundation and CodeBaby, surfacing 8 usability issues for CodeBaby and a keyboard navigation gap for Wikimedia. ● Findings led Wikimedia Foundation to adopt keyboard accessibility testing as a standard part of their design process. ● Facilitated co-design sessions for a nonprofit client, mapping an 8-phase service blueprint and designing a persona-driven data collection toolkit.
- Visual and Packaging Designer · Concepts in Time08-01-2023 – 12-31-2024
● Created artwork for packaging and brand materials across 200+ SKUs, including labels, inserts, and promotional collateral. ● Introduced a standardized component library and reusable design patterns, raising production efficiency 10% across product lines.
Education
- Pratt InstituteMS, Information Experience Design
- Caldwell UniversityBFA, Graphic Design (Minor in Marketing)
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