Product
Designer
and
Artist based in
the Bay Area

Karthika smiling among flowers and foliage

My journey

  1. A little girl with big eyes born and raised in India, a recent UC Berkeley Master of Design Graduate and an awesome Product Designer living in California.

  2. I am a designer with a past: I worked as a Software Engineer at Microsoft coding up a storm for over 4 years.

  3. An Artist at heart: I enjoy oil painting and creating ceramics on the wheel.
    Check out my art.

Certifications

  • AI for Designers

    Interaction Design Foundation, 2024

  • Graduate Certificate in New Media

    University of California - Berkeley, 2023

  • Introduction to Human-Centered Design

    IDEO.org, 2020

  • Introduction to User Experience Design

    Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020

  • UX Foundations: Interaction Design

    LinkedIn, 2020

  • UX Foundations: Research

    LinkedIn, 2020

Awards & Honors

  • Interaction Design Awards Finalist

    Interaction Design Association, 2024

  • John L. Simpson Research Fellowship

    University of California - Berkeley, 2023

  • Master Of Design Distinguished Scholar Award

    University of California - Berkeley, 2022-2023

  • GHCI Microsoft Delegate

    Microsoft - AnitaB.org, 2019

  • GHCI Student Scholar

    AnitaB.org, 2017