Actively looking for new opportunities  👀

Hello, It's
Ashish Durgude.
Nice to meet you!!

I am a Product Designer based in the San Francisco, Bay Area. Previously worked at Single Origin, Nutanix, Red Hat.
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My Principles

Design For People

For me, designing with empathy and prioritizing people is crucial. I focus on being consumer-oriented to truly understand and resolve their problems

Navigate through Complexity

I enjoy working on complex problems because they provide thrill and satisfaction, offer opportunities to learn something new, and allow me to collaborate with the team to solve challenges together

Be Adaptable and Flexible

Not every company's product problems can be solved with a general design process. I adapt and maintain my design process based on priorities, situations, and collaboration with the team.

There is an interesting journey of me getting into product design. During undergrad, I was into front-end coding, but after doing it for two years, I realized that it's not the coding that I am passionate about, it's the design.

I started my product design journey at Red Hat in 2017 after completing my undergrad in Computer Engineering. At Red Hat, I worked as a product designer for around two years working on their SaaS and PaaS products. After working for two years at Red Hat, I realized that there are still many things I could learn and explore about UX and product design, and that's why I decided to come to the U.S. to do a master's in Human-Computer Interaction from Indiana University. In June 2021, I joined Nutanix as a UX Designer working on their IaaS platform. After working there over some time, I left the company and joined Single Origin, a SaaS AI/ML startup where I am leading the entire product design efforts.

My Passion for Photography

I always loved capturing moments of nature and share it with wider audience. It is something that I truly enjoy other than being a designer. Please visit my Pexels page to see awesome moments I captured so far (Featured on Pexels).

Research Papers

D3-Collab - Bridging the collaboration gap between designers and developers on the enterprise level

I.R.J.E.T. / Volume: 05 Issue: 06

Virtual Lab for Electronics

I.R.J.E.T. / Volume: 04 Issue: 06

Medium Articles

App Critique — Lyft (Android)

How I built my profile for MS HCI degree as an international student

Career Progress So Far...

Work (5+ Years)

Single Origin

Product Designer

2022 - 2024

ADPList

UX/Product Design Mentor

2022 - Present

Nutanix

UX Designer II

2021 - 2022

Nutanix

UX Design Intern

2020

Red Hat

Product Designer

2017- 2019

VRLab Technologies

UX Design Intern

2016 - 2017

Education

Indiana University (IUPUI)

M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction

2019 - 2021

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

B.E. in Computer Engineering

2013 - 2017

Nutanix

UX Design Intern

2020

VRLab Technologies

UX Design Intern

2016 - 2017

Hackathon/Competition Wins

RUX  App Design Challenge 3rd Prize Winner

Topcoder / Design Competition

2018

Nutanix

UX Design Intern

2020

VRLab Technologies

UX Design Intern

2016 - 2017