# Rahidah Banavai

> Product Designer @ MongoDB

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rahidah

## Work Experience
### Product Designer @ MongoDB
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Associate Product Designer @ MongoDB
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Design Research Intern @ Talespin ✈️
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
• Took part in concept testing to help identify high priority questions and opportunities in XR training
• Discuss and collaborate on design research questions to conduct qualitative interviews
• Develop user personas to tailor product improvements for target audience(s)

### Product Design Intern @ MongoDB
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Revamped Atlas Point In Time Restore feature flows: introducing ‘Time table chart’ and indicators for restore speed. 
• Designed new centralized CTA for all restore processes
• Led user testing sessions focused on Atlas Point In Time Restore feature and led a team-wide design studio to ideate on usability improvements.

### Product Design Fellow @ Moringa Fellowship
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote
•	Preformed a content audit on existing design to establish current user flow and suggestions for improvements
•	Design a working prototype to demonstrate the administrative flow of the B2B product
•	Lead remote user testing sessions with 6 participants to asses product-market fit
•	Communicated design changes and trade-offs with a PM and Developer
•	Developed a mood board, style guides and redlines for handoff to the client

### Web Service and IT Intern @ Towson University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Towson, Maryland, United States

### Design Fellow @ Students Who Design
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Remote
•	12-week intensive digital product design boot camp.
•	Conducted a case study on Uber delivered a design concept that would allow users to have more control over their ride sharing experience.

### Creative Intern @ Ignition72, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area
•	Co-facilitating usability testing with users for the &Pizza project under a tight 1-week timeline.
•	Designed wireframes for both the about and contact pages for John Hopkins Local.
•	Advised in on brainstorming solutions with both designers and engineers on UI  projects relating to John Hopkins Local and Hagerstown Community College website.


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

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Technology
Towson University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29