Harsha works across user research, visual design, and storytelling to develop digital products that balance user needs with thoughtful aesthetics. He approaches projects with both creative vision and analytical rigor, focusing on the human experience at the center of each design decision. His work combines traditional design processes with emerging AI-assisted workflows. Harsha helps teams move from research insights to interactive prototypes, translating user needs into functional design solutions. His approach emphasizes empathy and iteration, treating each project as an ongoing dialogue between what users need and what's technically possible. Recently, he's been exploring AI design-to-code tools like Cursor and Lovable, finding new ways to bridge the gap between concept and working product. Harsha holds a background in computer science and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction at Indiana University. When he's not designing, he's exploring new design methodologies, vibing to music, or diving into the unexpected corners of the internet.

Harsha Gowda Ramamurthy

Harsha works across user research, visual design, and storytelling to develop digital products that balance user needs with thoughtful aesthetics. He approaches projects with both creative vision and analytical rigor, focusing on the human experience at the center of each design decision. His work combines traditional design processes with emerging AI-assisted workflows. Harsha helps teams move from research insights to interactive prototypes, translating user needs into functional design solutions. His approach emphasizes empathy and iteration, treating each project as an ongoing dialogue between what users need and what's technically possible. Recently, he's been exploring AI design-to-code tools like Cursor and Lovable, finding new ways to bridge the gap between concept and working product. Harsha holds a background in computer science and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction at Indiana University. When he's not designing, he's exploring new design methodologies, vibing to music, or diving into the unexpected corners of the internet.

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June 15, 2026

Harsha works across user research, visual design, and storytelling to develop digital products that balance user needs with thoughtful aesthetics. He approaches projects with both creative vision and analytical rigor, focusing on the human experience at the center of each design decision.

His work combines traditional design processes with emerging AI-assisted workflows. Harsha helps teams move from research insights to interactive prototypes, translating user needs into functional design solutions. His approach emphasizes empathy and iteration, treating each project as an ongoing dialogue between what users need and what’s technically possible. Recently, he’s been exploring AI design-to-code tools like Cursor and Lovable, finding new ways to bridge the gap between concept and working product.

Harsha holds a background in computer science and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction at Indiana University. When he’s not designing, he’s exploring new design methodologies, vibing to music, or diving into the unexpected corners of the internet.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert

Work Experience

Associate UX Designer at Woods Creative
August 1, 2025 - Present
Led end-to-end product design across B2C, public sector, and non-profit platforms; designed and shipped a core component library for a digital newspaper platform; built a foundational design system from scratch with color, typography, and spacing tokens and responsive variants; partnered with engineering to align Figma structure with front-end implementation; conducted heuristic evaluation and accessibility audit on nonprofit donation flow across desktop and mobile; built the UI foundation for a wellness and mental health platform, defining information architecture, page layouts, and core components that shaped how users discover and engage with content.
Product Designer at Cisco (Capstone)
September 1, 2025 - Present
Led end-to-end product design for AI-powered onboarding in Webex; redesigned the first-login experience with guided flows and empty states to teach users, replacing static tours with progressive in-context learning; conducted mixed-methods user research (16 interviews, 4 diary studies, 6 usability tests, 8 competitor analyses) and translated data-driven insights into design decisions addressing feature abandonment; built interactive coded prototypes with Cursor and Claude Code to test adaptive AI-assisted onboarding states; translated findings into a restructured information architecture and progressive-disclosure model, partnering with cross-functional teams to surface AI features beyond initial onboarding and ensuring feasibility with engineering.
Product Designer at Jobbox (University Collaboration)
April 1, 2025 - May 1, 2025
Iterated on an AI-powered job-tracking platform through three rounds of usability testing, refining navigation, terminology, and task flows based on participant feedback at each cycle; built coded prototypes featuring swipeable cards and AI decision-support patterns to reduce decision fatigue, collaborating with cross-functional teammates in an agile sprint environment.
Product Designer at Resource & Supply (University Collaboration)
January 1, 2025 - March 1, 2025
Owned end-to-end design from discovery to high-fidelity prototype for an AI-driven SaaS outreach tool; conducted 15+ user interviews to identify breakpoints in manual prospecting workflows; designed a drag-and-drop workflow builder and analytics dashboard, defining information architecture, interaction patterns, and visual system that translated complex sales data into a simple interface; prototyped AI-generated personalized messaging concepts in Figma and validated design directions through stakeholder reviews with product and engineering.

Education

Master's in Human-Computer Interaction at Indiana University Indianapolis
August 1, 2024 - May 1, 2026
Bachelor's in Computer Science Engineering at Presidency University, Bengaluru
December 1, 2020 - June 1, 2024

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Education, Non-Profit Organization