# Ishita Prasad

> Design @ Meta

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ishitaprasad

ishitaprasad.com

## Work Experience
### Product Design Lead, Risk @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Product Designer @ Quora
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Business & Monetization team - designed ways to create monetary value on Quora.com while maintaining a high-quality reader experience, and designing for the advertiser experience on Quora's Business platform.

### Cofounder + Head of Product @ Polymer
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Co-founded a startup to bring easy barcode scanning and tracking to small makers and factories and $2M from top seed investors. Read on TechCrunch: http://tcrn.ch/2gIk4G1

### Product Designer - Technology @ Dandelion Chocolate
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
I designed technology and UX products for Dandelion Chocolate's factories, including devices and screens that are publicly visible from the cafe and chocolate making experience space. I also worked on factory ops software, which we later turned into a startup and raised $2M for.

### Interaction Design Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
I worked on the YouTube UX team and designed experiences for annotation, commenting, and mobile video effects.

### Instructor & Course Assistant @ Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Stanford, CA
Instructed visual design companion class for HCI students.

Head course assistant for CS 247: Advanced HCI / Product Design at Stanford under Professor Michael Bernstein. Helped create and lead the capstone design workshops required for all HCI students.

### User Experience Research Intern @ Apple, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Designing better technology for retail stores at Apple

### Research Assistant @ Stanford NLP Group
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Stanford, CA
Developing multilingual (primarily Spanish) support for the Stanford CoreNLP project

### Software Engineering Intern @ Blackboard
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Developed tools to monitor BB Mobile's analytics system
Investigated the potential for a future dining & lifestyle product by developing a prototype iPhone application


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction)
Stanford University

### ISC in Physical Sciences
The Cathedral & John Connon School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ishitap
- Portfolio: https://ishitaprasad.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-25