# Ketki J. > Designing Mixed Reality at Unity Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ketkij Mixed Reality Interaction Designer with a background in HCI and user-centered research. I focus on interaction design, input systems, and developer tools. Contributing to design strategy and cohesive product experiences has been a key part of my roles. I'm interested in how emerging technologies shape human communication, and the role of design in that future. ## Work Experience ### Design Lead- XR @ Unity Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Leading design for XR Authoring and XR Inputs ### Staff Product Designer- XR @ Unity Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Focussed on the XR inputs vertical (Hands, eyes, controllers etc) ### Guest Lecturer @ Stanford University Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 CS11- How to make XR ### Design Manager @ Magic Leap Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | United States 1. Leading the Product Design team at Magic Leap for designing the Magic Leap 2 headset 2. Responsible for features fundamental and unique to AR like Space Mapping, Eye and hand Calibration, Virtual Text Entry, Device onboarding, user experience for packaging, Identity, accessibility guidelines, Magicverse/Metaverse etc ### Product Designer @ Magic Leap Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Florida 1. Magic Leap's first enterprise hire for designing a patented management framework for mixed reality devices. 2. Also responsible for the enterprise pages on magicleap.com and the enterprise store. ### Product Designer @ Headspace Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Worked on exploring the effect and preference of non-verbal sounds during mindfulness meditations. ### Product Designer @ TeleTracking Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area Building a service strategy and mobile application for citizens to prepare and evacuate better during hurricanes ### UI + UX Designer @ Obvious Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore 1. Designed and drove a project for explaining how motion design can help resolve complexities in interaction design. 2. Redesigned the website for an HR software and helped improve the online conversion rate. Conducted user interviews, fly-on-the-wall analysis, low and high fidelity mockups, UI/UX designs and illustrations. The team consisted of 2 UI/UX designers ( including myself) and a design lead. ### Interaction and Graphic Designer @ Instamojo Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore Created landing pages and UI assets for the mobile and web application. Led the graphic design department for creating compelling marketing and social media campaigns. ### Motion Designer @ Viacom Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Worked on a promo for series of DC comics Flash featuring on Colors Infinity, India ### Motion Designer @ Bombay Design House Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai Area, India 1. Directed and championed the creation of TV show packaging for a cookery show on BBC India. This project bagged the Indian Television award in 2015. Created storyboards, an animatic, directed the video shoot, did the animation and editing along with a professional photographer and a compositor. 2. Directed and led a team of animators to create 25 odd films for a children’s Youtube channel. Directed and completed films for Redbull, Asian Paints etc. ### Motion/ Graphic Designer @ ITDP India Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Chennai Area, India 1. Individually created a short film to promote public transportation. Wrote the script, created storyboards and animatics, did character design, animation, editing and sound design. The film went ahead to win accolades in numerous film festivals in India as well as abroad. 2.Also designed various graphics for public service campaigns eg. Cycle sharing. ## Education ### Masters in Human-Computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon University ### Bachelor’s in Visual Communication in Animation Film Design National Institute of Design ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ketkijadhav - Portfolio: https://ketkijadhav.work/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/ketkij JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ketkij/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13