UX Designer · Sunnyvale, CA

Figuring out people,
one design
at a time.

Hi, I'm Priya — a fresh UX grad from General Assembly (March 2026). Before this, I spent years teaching. Learning to design made me realise that my best teaching moments were the ones where I stopped talking and watched what confused people. Turns out that's called user research. I just didn't have a name for it yet.

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Priya T. UX Designer · General Assembly, Mar 2026
Selected Work

Three projects.
A lot of iteration.

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BollyStep Dance Coordination Platform
CapstoneWeb RedesignFigma
Website Redesign · 3 Weeks

BollyStep — Dance Coordination Platform

A South Asian dance platform where organizers, dancers, and choreographers all needed the same site — but had completely different goals. I redesigned onboarding and navigation to stop the confusion.

What surprised me

I assumed navigation was the main problem. User interviews told me it was actually trust — people didn't know if the platform was even active. That changed where I started.

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Food4U Surplus Food Redistribution
Social ImpactMobile AppEnd-to-End
Native Mobile App · 3 Weeks

Food4U — Surplus Food Redistribution

Restaurants have maybe 30 minutes before surplus food goes to waste. I designed a mobile app for staff to post donations quickly — and for local organisations to claim them in real time.

What I'd do differently

I underestimated how different the restaurant-side and recipient-side flows needed to be. My first prototype tried to serve both in one UI. It didn't work — and that was a good lesson.

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Mayura Roots Cultural Products Marketplace
E-CommerceIA RedesignCultural UX
E-Commerce Redesign · 3 Weeks

Mayura Roots — Cultural Products Marketplace

Traditional Indian products that don't fit neatly into Western e-commerce categories. I reworked the information architecture so browsing felt intuitive — even if you don't know the exact name of what you're looking for.

What I learned

Card sorting with users who had different cultural familiarity completely changed how I thought about categorisation. There's no single "right" mental model here.

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Honest Reflection

What the bootcamp
actually taught me.

Not the curriculum version. The things I walked in believing, and what quietly shifted after sitting with real users for the first time.

"Good design is about making things look clean. If it's polished, the problem is solved."

↓ what changed

People don't notice good design — they just don't get frustrated. My most visually plain prototype tested better than my prettiest one. That was humbling, and it reordered a lot of things for me.

"My teaching background will help me understand users. I'm used to reading a room."

↓ what changed

Teaching is about guiding. Research is about getting out of the way. I had to unlearn the instinct to explain and just watch what people actually did — even when it was uncomfortable to stay quiet.

"I'll know when to push back on design constraints. I have some technical context."

↓ what changed

Designing within constraints is a conversation, not a checklist. I'm still learning when to push and when to adapt — and I think I'll be learning that for a long time.

About

Teacher, now
designer.

I spent years teaching before I found UX. In the classroom, the moments that stuck were never the prepared lessons — they were the looks on students' faces when something I said made no sense. That gap between what I intended and what landed is exactly what UX design tries to close.

Coming into design from teaching gave me something I think matters more than any tool right now: genuine curiosity about why people do what they do, and patience with the parts that don't make sense yet. I graduated from General Assembly's UX bootcamp in March 2026 and I'm actively looking for my first UX role.

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Tools & Skills

FigmaFigJamJira NotionWixCanva User InterviewsUsability Testing WireframingPrototyping Journey MappingHeuristic Eval Card SortingWCAG Agile / JiraDesign Thinking

Open to opportunities.

Looking for UX Designer, Product Designer, or UX Research Intern roles — somewhere I can learn fast, ask lots of questions, and do meaningful work from day one.

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