# Priya Ganadas > Principal Design Lead at Microsoft | AI Transformation and Innovation Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/priyaganadas Design leader, strategist and prototyper working at the intersection of emerging technologies and user centered innovation. ## Work Experience ### Principal Design Lead @ Microsoft Jan 2023 – Present ### Senior Design Lead @ Microsoft Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Senior User Experience Designer, Industry Cloud Acceleration @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, WA ### Design Strategist, Mixed Reality @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Redmond, Washington, United States ### User Experience Designer, Microsoft Incubation @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Redmond, WA - Incubated new hardware, software and platform opportunities 1-5+ years out in future - Built early experiential prototypes to influence long term vision of future products - Drove experience strategy to define key experiences for upcoming products with partner teams across Microsoft ### Co-Founder and Designer @ Satellite Shelter Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Pittsburgh Satellite Shelter provides an affordable, high quality, temporary shelter alternative for homeless individuals in extreme winter. - Drove user research to understand different stakeholders such as homeless individuals, emergency shelter organizations, and government agencies. - Built custom insulation and humidity testing rigs for testing prototypes early on - Drove end to end development from concept to build a fully tested portable homeless shelter design Invited to The White House for National week of Making, 2015 and winner of Maker's Merit Award. Press features include Fastco, A Plus, Ecouterre, Good Magazine, Huffington Post and more. ### Creative Technologist Intern @ YinzCam, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Defined and prototyped new fan experiences for in-stadium sports experience using augmented reality and virtual reality applications ### Instructor: Experiential Media Design @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Experiential Media Design focuses on the theory, methodology and history behind the design, development and interpretation of experiential media systems. - Mentored students during user research, ideation and concept development. - Taught open source electronic platforms and digital media technologie - Created detailed tutorials and documentation ### Research Assistant : Visible Process Lab @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Visible Process Lab(VPL) provides students platform to explore design through variety of digital and physical tools. My research at VPL focussed Augmented Reality technology as a medium for creating narrative experiences. I used Unity3D gaming engine, Vuforia SDK, Objective-C , C# and javascript for creating prototypes ### Design Research Associate : Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Mumbai and CoSMIC Lab, NTU Singapore. @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Mumbai Designed and developed SPUNK- augmented reality remote gaming platform. Specific tasks : User research, conceptualization, prototyping, wireframing, UI and play-testing. I was also part of a team who conceptualized JODO - a platform for various artists, illustrators, story tellers to come together from various locations and create a story collectively using digital media. Additionally, I contributed to JODO as a writer and illustrator. ### User Experience Designer @ Pidilite Industries Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Mumbai, India I designed series of experiences for Pidilite's experience center 'Designer Den'​. I designed and developed 'Dropfreeze'​, interactive installation for Pidilite's waterproofing product range. Dropfreeze created an optical illusion of antigravity water flow. DropFreeze was exhibited at Acetech 2012 across five cities in India. ### Team Lead, Power Subsystem @ SWAYAM: CoEP Satellite Program Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 As one of the founding members, I led Power Subsystem for pico satellite SWAYAM. I led a team of 8 electrical, electronics and instrumentation engineers. As an engineer, I designed battery charging and monitoring systems, load protection circuits and solar panel configuration. My team conceptualized and created the first preliminary design of the entire subsystem and further developed it into a fully functional system. I was also responsible for inducting new members in the team and their training. SWAYAM was launched successfully in low earth orbit by India Space Research Organization(ISRO) in 2016. ### Project Administrator @ CoEP Satellite Program Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 - Monitored facilities, purchases, inventory and logistics for team of 40. - Communicated with all five subsystems in SWAYAM for their interdependencies and streamlined procurements. - Built new partnerships for testing and research. ## Education ### Master of Tangible Interaction Design in Tangible Interaction Design Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ### Master of Design in Interaction Design Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering COEP Technological University Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/priyaganadas --- Source: https://flows.cv/priyaganadas JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/priyaganadas/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30