# Sandhya Talwalker

> Principal & Founder, ST Design Studio | Ex-Instacart, Ex-Dropbox, Adobe

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

I am a designer with a keen eye for creating experiences that are useful, engaging, efficient and easy to use for the human kind. 
I have helped clients in creating successful user experiences through research, feedback, analysis and best practices.

To find out more; drop me a line at sandy.narayan@gmail.com

Specialties: information architecture, interaction design, user experience design, pitch work, concepting, and specific UX deliverables such as: story boards, personas, wireframes, task flows, use cases.

## Work Experience
### Principal & Founder, ST Design Studio | Residential Interior Design @ ST Design Studio
Jan 2025 – Present
https://www.instagram.com/stdesign_studio/

### Co-Founder @ Poppy Shoes
Jan 2020 – Present
https://poppyshoe.com/

### Sr Product Design Manager, Growth & Membership, Cart & Checkout, Family Experiences @ Instacart
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Product Design Manager (Shopper & Fulfillment) @ Instacart
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024

### Product Design Manager @ Dropbox
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Lead a team of product designers building Dropbox for Enterprise with a focus on mid to large
size business customers.
• Responsible for strategy, planning and execution for the team in partnership with Product,
Engineering and Research.
• Key partner to a broad set of functions such as Brand, PMM, PA, Writing.

### Experience Design Manager @ Adobe
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
- Lead a team of multi-disciplined designers to resolve enterprise and consumer experience challenges for Document Cloud services.
- Helping transform ambiguous business requirements into tangible solutions.
- Facilitated design thinking across different functions and disciplines by conducting Design Sprints across the Organization.
- Worked with executive leaders in helping bring design to the forefront of business objectives by prioritizing problems to solve for.
- Hired talent to help build a strong design team.

### Senior Experience Designer at Adobe Inc. @ Adobe
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017
- Worked with business, product and engineering partners to shape the vision of Adobe Sign (Adobe’s E-Signature services)
- Co-ordinated research effort to deliver a holistic view of user needs by conducting
surveys, one-on-one user interviews, stakeholder interviews, usability testing, a/b testing etc. to form design POV.
- Created sitemap, wireframes to support the design process 
- Helped co-ordinate design for Adobe’s early photo sharing service called Adobe Revel

### Sr. UX Designer @ Anthem Worldwide
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
• Lead UX on all projects. Working Closely with strategy, design and development teams to understand requirements and craft effective solutions.
• Helping conduct research such as surveys, one-on-one user interviews, stakeholder interviews, usability testing etc. for large scale projects.
• Developing interaction architecture documents and prototypes to support design and development process.
• Advocating user centered design throughout the company by including the use of personas to guide design.
• Working closely with internal teams to manage scope and schedule for multiple projects.
• Contributing to new business projects in the pitch process.

### Interaction Designer @ The Barbarian Group
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco
• Discovery and experience design for a variety of projects including: websites, administrative platforms, and visualizers
• Design focused research
• Planned and executed user experience from conception to launch
• Collaborating, critiquing, assisting and operating in a team environment along with visual designers and developers.

### UX Intern @ AndersonDDB
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007

### UI Designer @ Metrikus
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005


## Education
### MFA in Interactive Media in Design, UX, IxD
Academy of Art University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sandhya-talwalker-6937315

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Last updated: 2026-04-13