Designing products that simplify systems and create real-world impact

Hi, I’m Mahita — a Product Designer with experience in healthcare and user research, transforming complex, high-stakes workflows into clear, actionable products that achieve meaningful results.

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Work Highlights

Two smartphones displaying career coaching app screens, one with options for 'New Companion' or 'Already a companion', the other with a 'Get Started' button and an illustration of a woman sitting.

Rapid Design Sprint for a Community app

Summary: Conceptualized and Designed a high-fidelity prototype of a community support platform that helps people plan their careers and receive mentorship.

Role: UX Researcher

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A MacBook Air laptop displaying a financial planning app with modules for income, expense, debts, and savings, set against a white background with abstract purple and dark shapes.

Customer Onboarding & Dashboard for Fin-Tech App

Project Summary: Customer onboarding and dashboard design based on user testing and heuristic evaluation for a Fin-tech startup’s web platform.

Role: Product Lead

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Website screenshot for Rare Genomics showing logo, navigation menu, and a colorful illustration of a person with children, featuring a caption about offering hope to patients and families through genomics.

Complete Website Redesign for Non-profit

Project Summary: Updating the Rare Genomics non-profit website to increase traffic, boost patient sign-ups, and enhance accessibility, especially for patients with disabilities.

Role: Lead Web Designer

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Digital Interface for AI Training in Post-Surgical Wound Identification

Project Summary: An R&D sprint in collaboration with a major med-tech company to develop a testing interface for specialist input, training a digital assistant that will help healthcare professionals accurately identify post-surgical wounds.

Role: Client & User Experience

Side Projects

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    UI Work

    Some extra UI designs I did for various challenges and side projects to work on my skills. Check out them out on my dribble account below:

    Dribble Account
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    Etsy Art

    I spend my free evenings drawing on my iPad and making designs for my small fan-made business. You can catch me selling at makers markets in the LA Area on weekends. Check it out here:

    Shop Website
  • Screenshot of a webpage with HTML code for a project named 'Mahita's Project,' featuring a navigation menu, an introductory paragraph, and a section titled 'Favorite Foods.'

    Web Design

    I continuously refresh my front-end web development knowledge through small projects in my spare time. I am currently working on a project using React. Find my completed GitHub Projects here:

    GitHub Repository