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I am Harita Kancheepuram Sundararajan, a UI/UX and Product Designer based in Pennsylvania, USA, with a passion for crafting intuitive, accessible digital experiences. I specialize in design systems, interaction design, responsive design, and AI-enabled UX, translating complex requirements into delightful interfaces that scale across devices. I am also an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator who loves collaborating with cross-functional teams. I’ve built a multidisciplinary studio, published research on interface aesthetics, and mentored hundreds of students in UX design and front-end development.…I am Harita Kancheepuram Sundararajan, a UI/UX and Product Designer based in Pennsylvania, USA, with a passion for crafting intuitive, accessible digital experiences. I specialize in design systems, interaction design, responsive design, and AI-enabled UX, translating complex requirements into delightful interfaces that scale across devices. I am also an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator who loves collaborating with cross-functional teams. I’ve built a multidisciplinary studio, published research on interface aesthetics, and mentored hundreds of students in UX design and front-end development.

Harita Kancheepuram Sundararajan

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I am Harita Kancheepuram Sundararajan, a UI/UX and Product Designer based in Pennsylvania, USA, with a passion for crafting intuitive, accessible digital experiences. I specialize in design systems, interaction design, responsive design, and AI-enabled UX, translating complex requirements into delightful interfaces that scale across devices. I am also an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator who loves collaborating with cross-functional teams. I’ve built a multidisciplinary studio, published research on interface aesthetics, and mentored hundreds of students in UX design and front-end development.…I am Harita Kancheepuram Sundararajan, a UI/UX and Product Designer based in Pennsylvania, USA, with a passion for crafting intuitive, accessible digital experiences. I specialize in design systems, interaction design, responsive design, and AI-enabled UX, translating complex requirements into delightful interfaces that scale across devices. I am also an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator who loves collaborating with cross-functional teams. I’ve built a multidisciplinary studio, published research on interface aesthetics, and mentored hundreds of students in UX design and front-end development.

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I am Harita Kancheepuram Sundararajan, a UI/UX and Product Designer based in Pennsylvania, USA, with a passion for crafting intuitive, accessible digital experiences. I specialize in design systems, interaction design, responsive design, and AI-enabled UX, translating complex requirements into delightful interfaces that scale across devices.

I am also an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator who loves collaborating with cross-functional teams. I’ve built a multidisciplinary studio, published research on interface aesthetics, and mentored hundreds of students in UX design and front-end development.

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Work Experience

Founder & Lead Designer at Art Trail

April 1, 2023 - October 1, 2025

Founded and scaled a multidisciplinary creative studio delivering UI/UX, branding, and digital/traditional art for 10+ clients across 25+ projects, reducing design cycle time by 40% through workflow automation and systemization. Created custom digital and traditional assets, accelerating project delivery by two weeks and ensuring consistent, high-quality visuals across platforms, building an Instagram community of 2K+ followers and generating ~10k monthly reach.

Graduate Assistant at Pennsylvania State University

October 1, 2024 - Present

Led HCI research and co-authored 'How to Make Interfaces Attractive' in Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems, synthesizing 100+ papers on visual aesthetics and cognitive processing to inform global design standards. Conducted empirical UX studies on color, layout, and visual hierarchy to measure engagement and usability for non-design developers. Promoted to Teaching Assistant for HCDD 331 and IST 256; mentored 100+ students in UX design, prototyping, user flows, task analysis, and front-end development (Figma, HTML/CSS, JavaScript).

UX Researcher at IBM Academic Collaboration

August 1, 2022 - December 1, 2022

Co-developed AI-powered Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) using Python, Flask, and IBM Cloud, achieving 77% accuracy in early liver disease severity detection. Independently led a full UX redesign post-collaboration, building a design system (color tokens, grids, interaction patterns) and strengthening adoption, usability, and clinician trust. Conducted clinician-focused UX research, designed risk dashboards and conversational AI, and implemented accessibility-first layouts (WCAG) improving usability scores by 60%.

UI/UX Design Intern at VTech Engineering

May 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024

Spearheaded full brand redesign and scalable design system in Figma, creating design tokens for color, typography, and elevation across 12+ digital touchpoints, boosting customer engagement by 35%. Implemented responsive HTML/CSS framework and restructured IA via card sorting and tree testing, increasing engagement by 30% and improving peak-hour retention.

Graduate Assistant at Penn State University

October 1, 2024 - Present