# Joe Dara

> Product Designer at WhatsApp

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

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ WhatsApp
Jan 2021 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Core consumer design team

### Senior UX Designer @ Samsung Research America
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California
Intelligence at the door - Led design and vision for a new Samsung security product. It empowers people with a security assistant at their door. 

AI & comfort - Designed an experience where the home orchestrates mutliple devices to achieve goals of health, safety, comfort & savings.

Energy saving & appliance scheduling - Designed an appliance scheduling experience that avoids peak energy hours, automates maintenance & reduces ambient noise.

### UX Designer @ Samsung Research America
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Mountain View, California
Smart volume for assistants - Led interaction design for the aural experience of interacting with smart assistants to feel more natural. Currently on the roadmap for Galaxy home.

Designed a closed social network for friends & family. Includes a live streaming service for Samsung mobiles & TVs. Product was launched on the Samsung 2019 TVs and Galaxy phones.

Designed the experience to access mobile photo gallery on shared devices(TV). Experience was launched on Samsung 2019 TVs.

### UX Design Intern @ Ammunition
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Designed physical and digital experiences for a range of clients including Polaroid, Ember, IBeats, Cafe X, Object and Loreal.

Conducted research to understand user behaviour and needs while choosing smartphone carriers. Synthesized insights and business goals to develop design strategy for the onboarding experience of a new smartphone.

### Interaction Design Intern @ Augmedix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Created a new design system to improve the consistency and learnability of their Google Glass application. With Augmedix expecting rapid growth, establishing a design framework for future features was important.

The redesign was appreciated by the leadership, product and the engineering team. It is currently under production.

### Software Engineer @ FusionCharts
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Bangalore
-I have designed and prototyped chart components and dashboards using HTML5/CSS, d3.js and other in-house javascript libraries.
- Assess user requirements through customer feedback and domain
research. This helped build road map for future components.
- Created cross-device responsive dashboards with the chart
components for data visualization.
- Apart form the core product, the other projects include FC Fiddle, javascript and PHP document generators and the razorflow website.

### Software Developer @ Accenture
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore
- Part of the design and implementation team for the California Public Employees Retirement System (CALPERS).
- Part of the Accessibility team to make the web application completely accessible conforming to WCAG 2.0 Standards.


## Education
### Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction
Indiana University Indianapolis

### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Gitam University


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

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Last updated: 2026-02-23