Shichi Upadhyay - Product Designer

About Me

Aka Shichi (शिचि).

Product Designer with an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction, currently embedded full-time at a private equity firm as their sole Product Designer - building systems, shipping products, and occasionally writing front-end code.

In short, a chaos-born, curiosity-fueled designer who chases stories as if they'd disappear.

She designs like she's painting whispers, observes like a detective, and adds drama like a younger sibling with no chill. Currently decoding the human experience: pixel by pixel, story by story.

Selected Work

0→1 · Finance & Oil & Gas

Private Equity Platforms

An LP platform and a field data operations platform - two platforms built from zero as the sole designer, shipped inside tight engineering timelines.

Private Equity Solo ownership Enterprise

0→MVP Sole designer

3 mo Research to launch

6M+ Data points

Private Equity Platforms

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Mobile & Web · Haptic interactions

DeepVue

Crafted haptic and pressure-based mobile interactions replicating physical feedback, and developed 20+ WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant components.

Mobile Haptics Accessibility

20+ WCAG components

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UX Design · Data visualization

Fidelity Investments

Built a brokerage application and data visualization modules for portfolio managers - improved task efficiency by 13% through iterative testing.

Data visualization Finance Usability testing

~13% Task efficiency gain

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Skills

Design & Tools

Interaction Design User Flows Information Architecture Wireframing Design Systems Prototyping Figma HTML / CSS / JS

Research

Usability Testing Ethnographic Research Affinity Mapping Heuristic Evaluation User Interviews

Currently Exploring

Swift React