PRODUCT DESIGNER & ENGINEER

Ashik Mathew Tharakan

Ashik Mathew Tharakan

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Summary

Product Designer with 3+ years of experience designing B2B and B2C SaaS and complex AI-powered enterprise products across EdTech, HRTech, Healthcare, and Fintech. Skilled in simplifying complex workflows, building scalable design systems and interaction patterns, and shipping from concept to production. Experienced collaborating closely with engineers and stakeholders, using rapid prototyping and AI-assisted workflows to deliver high-impact solutions.

Experience

UX Designer

April 2025 – Present

Apr 2025 – Present

ASU Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Center

AI Cloud Innovation Center

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Internship

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Internship

• Built AI-assisted design workflows to speed up prototyping and reduce design-to-development time, establishing reusable UI patterns across projects.

• Owned end-to-end UX for an AI patent search tool, defining user journeys through stakeholder interviews, achieving 85%+ agreement with experts while reducing evaluation time from six weeks to under 25 minutes.

• Led UX for an AI essay-grading tool, defining interaction patterns based on user feedback and rapid iteration, achieving 90% agreement with human graders and reducing processing time to under 30 seconds per essay.

Product Designer

August 2025 – December 2025

Aug 2025 – Dec 2025

Mayo Clinic

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Capstone Project

• Designed a WCAG-compliant PRO-CTCAE symptom tracking platform for cancer patients, simplifying 80+ clinical questions into clear, accessible workflows through user-centered design and information architecture.

• Reduced symptom reporting time from 30 to 3 minutes by restructuring user flows through category screening and dynamic branching, informed by usability testing and feedback, reducing cognitive load and improving efficiency.

• Increased engagement by ∼30% by designing feedback loops and lightweight gamification features such as streaks and progress indicators to reinforce user behavior.

Product Designer

March 2024 – August 2024

Mar 2024 – Aug 2024

Optionlogy

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Part-time

• Owned the design of a no-code strategy builder feature, translating complex trading logic into a flexible, reusable template for non-technical users through iterative prototyping, reducing strategy creation time by 35%.

Product Designer

January 2024 – August 2024

Jan 2024 – Aug 2024

Instruo

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Full-time

• Partnered with founders and product managers to define product requirements and design end-to-end user flows for an MVP skilling platform through collaborative workshops, with a projected 40% reduction in employee training time.

Product Designer

January 2022 – January 2024

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

SuperHire

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Full-time

• Led the design of the B2C recruiter portal, improving user flows based on user feedback and usage insights, reducing job-search time by ∼55%, with most roles receiving candidate profiles within 48 hours.

• Designed an internal analytics dashboard that consolidated multiple data sources and automated reporting, reducing report generation time by 40% and simplifying complex workflows for non-technical users.

• Built a scalable design system with reusable components and documented interaction patterns, improving design consistency to 95% and accelerating delivery across products.

Education

Arizona State University

ASU

August 2024 – May 2026

Aug 2024 – May 2026

Master of Science in User Experience

MS in User Experience

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4.0 CGPA

Cochin University of Science and Technology

CUSAT

July 2017 – August 2021

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

BTech in Computer Science

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3.4 CGPA

Skills

Product & UX

User Interviews • Heuristic Evaluation • Usability Testing • Information Architecture • Journey Mapping Wireframing • Interaction Design • Prototyping • WCAG 2.2 • Design System • Design Tokens • Responsive Design • Mobile UX • A/B Testing & CRO

AI & Systems

AI-Assisted Prototyping • Prompt Engineering • Context Engineering • Generative AI

Tools

Figma • Figma Make • Claude Code • Cursor AI •Rive • Sketch • Adobe Creative Suite • HTML • CSS JavaScript • Git • Framer Motion • GSAP

Soft Skills

Cross-functional Collaboration • Project Management • Stakeholder Communication • Data-Driven Design

ASHIK MATHEW THARAKAN

PRODUCT DESIGNER & ENGINEER