Hello, I'm Sonal.

Product Design Intern @ the New York Times.
‍MS HCI student @ Indiana University Bloomington.

Currently designing for the New York Times homepage that gets at least 5 million views per day.

Actively seeking Product Design internships for spring 2023 and full-time Product Design positions for summer 2023.

Case studies

Establishing readers' trust in New York Times

Improving readers’ understanding of the processes, people and proof that underpins Times journalism.

Prototyping. Design Handoff. Shipped Project.

Election News Literacy
Campaign for Google News

Educating people to help them become critical consumers of election news and smart participants of political discussions.

UX Research and Design. Passion Project.

Designing for behaviour change through Fitbit App

Helping students monitor their sleep data by making the UX of the sleep module in Fitbit, comprehensible, personalized and delightful.

UX Research and Design. Academic Project.

Improving Black Friday Sale Experience for Best Buy

An integrated solution for long payment queues and employee findability for a Best Buy store.

UX Research and Design. Sponsored by Best Buy.

Integrating Trailhead in Salesforce Marketing site

Creating a test plan, preparing prototype, and facilitating user testing session. Coming soon.

UX Research and Design. Externship.

Short projects

Voice Interaction Design
Designing the character of a personal voice assistant for a chosen scenario that includes a visually challenged person.
Video Prototype. Interaction Map
Measuring UX
Generating insights for Airbnb to optimize the favouritising feature for a specific user group of university students.
Moderated Testing. Likert scale. Attribute Association
Strategy Design
Strategy to design 'spaces of future' that will incorporate IOT
and mixed reality systems.
Reframing Paradigm. 6-month strategy

Writings

Users

Perceiving users as sentient, living and purposive bodies for embodied interaction in remote communication
Tangible Artifacts. Bodily Perception

Technology

Racism and technology are co-produced: A post-humanist perspective
Racially Inclusive Technology

Design

Advocating for a user-centred approach in designing solutions for sustainability
Sustainable Technology Design

Let's connect

For work opportunities or a casual ramble on anything design, technology and people.

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