# Pranathi M.

> Design @ Microsoft AI

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pranathi

Design thinker and creative problem solver with 8+ years of experience in product design and a background in Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Science. 

I enjoy taking products from ideation to execution, creating seamless cross-product ecosystems, and enabling people to do their best work. My ability to look at the big picture while obsessing with details helps me build scalable, performant, and delightful products that people love.

## Work Experience
### Senior Product Designer, Microsoft AI @ Microsoft
Jan 2025 – Present | Mountain View, CA

### Senior Experience Designer @ Adobe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States
Led design on Creative Cloud to shape how users interact with their files, membership, and creative workflows across Adobe apps.
Highlights:
∙ Designed a unified file browser to streamline access across file types, storage locations, and Creative Cloud surfaces.
∙ Redesigned the new user onboarding experience to reduce friction and accelerate time to value.
∙ Led 0→1 design to help users discover and engage with benefits in their subscription.
∙ Created a graceful failure experience for app crashes that enhanced user trust and reduced crash rates by 30%.

### Senior Product Designer @ Intuit
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
As a part of the central data platform team, I designed horizontal experiences that seamlessly integrate within TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint.
Highlights:
∙ Designed personalized financial data connection experiences and touchpoints across Intuit products from strategy to launch.
∙ Led design for 3 key initiatives aimed at streamlining the process of linking and managing financial data, resulting in significant efficiency and time savings for users.
∙ Applied and coached teams in design thinking methodologies and facilitated ideation workshops as a trained Innovation Catalyst.

### Product Designer @ Intuit
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States

### UX Designer @ U.S. Department of State
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area
[Graduate capstone project]
Worked with the Department of State to leverage historical artefacts from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms for secondary school education.
Highlights:
∙ Designed a platform that supports educators in discovering and creating engaging classroom activities for students by leveraging activity templates and gamification.
∙ Utilized design methodologies such as user environment design, storyboarding, and data modelling to develop user-friendly concepts and prototypes. 
∙ Conducted extensive contextual inquiries and user interviews, working closely with educators and students to gather insights and address their specific challenges.

### HCI Research Assistant @ Human-Computer Interaction Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | College Park, Maryland, United States
Prototyped data visualizations and studied user perception under the advisement of Dr. Niklas Elmqvist.
Publication at ACM CHI'19: Ranked-List Visualization: A Graphical Perception Study.

### UX Engineer @ Bounteous
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Chennai, India
Designed and prototyped solutions incorporating market research, wireframes, and front-end development for our clients.
Highlights:
∙ Designed and developed front-end for Contextip, a B2B product aimed at helping sales professionals improve their prospects.
∙ Designed Hubble, an interactive data analysis dashboard for a capital investment company to aid decision-makers.
∙ Designed a service application that improved the work efficiency of care agents for a prominent airline.

### UI/UX Intern @ Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Collaborated with a team of researchers and developers at inLab (R&D lab in UPC Barcelona) to design and develop a big data analysis interface for e-learning platforms.  
Highlights:
∙ Designed a real-time data visualization interface for high school teachers to monitor the motivation and engagement levels of their students.
∙ Constructed mathematical indicators to compute the Motivation Index of students and developed SQL queries for Data Extraction


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

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy


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

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Last updated: 2026-02-23