Charu Chaudhari
Mumbai
Summary
Principal UX Designer with 9+ years of experience across enterprise, consumer, and industrial products. Skilled in design strategy, team mentorship, and translating complex systems into intuitive experiences.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Principal UX Designer
ZEUX Innovation
Mumbai
02.2022 - 01.2026
- Led UX strategy and product design across enterprise platforms, consumer products, and industrial HMI systems.
- Designed end-to-end experiences from research and product discovery to interaction design and prototyping across multiple concurrent projects.
- Partnered with product leaders, founders, and engineering teams to define product direction and deliver scalable UX solutions.
- Mentored designers and established UX processes that improved design quality and cross-team collaboration.
Design Engineer
Esri
Redlands
08.2016 - 12.2021
- Designed cross-platform workflows enabling spatial analysis for 13M+ businesses across 130 countries.
- Transformed complex location analysis reports into visual infographics for faster business decision-making.
- Led user research and usability testing and introduced gamified onboarding, increasing trial conversion by 8%.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of California, Irvine
Irvine
03.2015 - 07.2015
- Assisted professors in creating and grading teaching material, assignments and quizzes for UX courses.
Software Intern
ESRI Inc.
Redlands
05.2015 - 08.2015
- Designed intuitive visualizations for complex spatial and demographic data while improving reporting tool usability.
Junior Software Engineer
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Mumbai
01.2013 - 12.2014
- Designed and created educational content for the nation-wide government project of making Aakash (Android) tablets more accessible to students.
Education
M.S. - Informatics, Human Computer Interaction
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, United States06-2016
B.E. - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
India04-2012
Skills
- Interaction design & prototyping
- User experience design
- Research & testing methodologies
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Project management
Certification
US Design Patent Pending — Intuitive Slider UI Control
Timeline
Principal UX Designer
ZEUX Innovation
02.2022 - 01.2026
Design Engineer
Esri
08.2016 - 12.2021
Software Intern
ESRI Inc.
05.2015 - 08.2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of California, Irvine
03.2015 - 07.2015
Junior Software Engineer
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
01.2013 - 12.2014
M.S. - Informatics, Human Computer Interaction
University of California, Irvine
B.E. - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai