Sheil Mehta

NYC + Boston | sheilmehta@gmail.com | snmportfolio.com

I am a Product Designer with experience researching, designing, and delivering digital products in the health-tech space. I create and maintain consistent design system documentation for development hand-off and am a data-minded team worker. My passion lies in leveraging AI/ML towards socially beneficial user-centered products

Product Designer | Mobile Heartbeat/HCA - Clinical Communications

2023 - Present

  • Designed and implemented new feature documentation for over 100+ pages of Design System
  • Built 10 new user experiences that address healthcare provider needs
  • Developed new filtering patterns, messaging templates, hospital-wide system alerts, new UI layouts for directory pages, and a ‘quick-broadcast’ system for hospital code alerts
  • Conducted 3 clinical user-based research efforts, leading to discovering product shortcomings and areas for growth for the platform
  • Componentized 3 major UI building blocks in Figma. Streamlined building of messaging components, contact cards and list cells to increase future design speed
  • Collaborated across teams on a unified vision for the platform. Incorporating product managers, developers, and stakeholders

Experience Designer and Researcher | HonestDog

2023

  • Facilitated a 200% traffic increase via a full redesign of the desktop interface
  • Reduced applicant drop-off rate by 40% via focused re-design of the user-onboarding process
  • Built and presented 4 high-fidelity Figma prototypes to stakeholders during iterative process
  • Increased brand trustworthiness using research-based visual design and creative and modern components

Product Designer | Awake Mobile

2023

  • Innovated a new product design for a sobriety tracking and social sponsor tool
  • Conducted background research and 10 end-user interviews, followed by personas, empathy mapping, and user flow creation
  • Wire-framed, user tested, and produced 1 final prototype in Figma

Behavioral Researcher | LeDoux Labs

2021 - 2022

  • Created, documented, and built experimental apparatus for 3 behavioral experiments
  • Acquired 2 new coding skills to produce data-based deliverables (Arduino/C++)
  • Parsed, analyzed, and visualized dozens of pages of research data using self-written post processing pipeline
  • Produced 10 scientific figures/graphics to illustrate study findings, used in publication of research findings

Education

AI Product Design in Healthcare

2024-Present

MIT xPRO

B.S Cognitive and Behavioral Studies

2018-2022

New York University

skills

  • Figma / Sketch / Axure
  • Low - Hi-Fi prototyping
  • Design system creation
  • Agile + Jira based Workflow
  • Dev-centered feature requirement documentation
  • User interviewing methodology
  • User testing + iterative Design
  • CSS + HTML
  • High speed deliverable turnaround
  • Lean UX methods