# Devika V.

> UX Researcher & Product Designer | 4+ Years Mixed Methods | From Insight to Investor-Funded Outcomes

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/devikav

Deeply curious about people. That's what drives my work.

I'm a UX Designer and Researcher with 4 + years of experience designing products that actually make sense to the people using them. I've owned end-to-end design across 0-to-1 platforms, B2C products, and early-stage R&D  moving from research and strategy all the way through to wireframes, prototypes, and shipped solutions.


Right now I'm a Senior Design Researcher at Tata Elxsi, running lab-based research and design validation for VR, AR, and consumer equipment products. I manage client relationships, guide my team, and make sure what we learn in research actually changes what gets built.


Before that I designed a data privacy platform from scratch at TrueX  zero to investor-ready in under 3 months, secured the startup's seed funding, and a design system built from nothing. At Bosmos I led user research for a community platform startup and redesigned onboarding flows that moved task success rates by 15 percentage points.


What I care about most is the gap between what teams assume users want and what users actually do. I close that gap with research, then I design my way through it.
 
I'm currently open to Product Design and UX Research roles where the work is ambiguous, the stakes are real, and good design actually changes the outcome.

Let's connect.

## Work Experience
### Senior UX Researcher @ Tata Elxsi
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara, CA

### Founding UX Designer @ TruEx LLC
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | United States

### UX Researcher @ Bosmos
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | United States

### Photographer & Designer @ MIT-WPU Shutterbugs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### User Experience Designer @ M.A.D. Methods
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mumbai

### Head Of Design @ TEDxKothrud
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### User Experience Designer @ JLGS Technologies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### User Experience Designer @ HEXANIKA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Pune District


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Human Computer Interaction
Iowa State University

### Bachelor of Design in User Experience
MIT World Peace University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/devika-vaidya

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Last updated: 2026-04-13