Yashodhan Mandke Uxc, Mfa, Mdes

Yashodhan Mandke has extensive work experience as a User Experience (UX) Designer and Product Designer. Their most recent position was as a Senior User Experience Designer at ecobee, starting in October 2021. Prior to that, they worked as a Senior Product Designer at Torstar Digital (Torstar Corp.) from March 2021 to October 2021.

Yashodhan also worked as a User Experience Designer at Element Fleet Management from November 2020 to March 2021. In this role, they conducted brainstorming sessions and requirements gathering with stakeholders to simplify the information architecture for a complex transactional application.

Before Element Fleet Management, Yashodhan served as a Senior Product Designer at AmeriGas from June 2020 to November 2020. During this time, they collaborated with product and development teams to improve the customer experience for the Snapdeal app users.

Prior to AmeriGas, Yashodhan worked at Kroger Technology as a User Experience Designer from July 2018 to February 2020. In this role, they participated in requirement gathering sessions with product stakeholders, conducted user research, and designed interactions and interfaces for web-based software.

Yashodhan also has experience in teaching, having served as an Adjunct Instructor at Miami University. Yashodhan taught courses such as Fundamentals of Interaction Design and Communication Design Prototyping, focusing on the principles of interactive experiences and design thinking.

In addition, Yashodhan has worked as a User Experience Designer at Talmetrix and as a Design Researcher at Crown Equipment Corporation. At Talmetrix, they focused on user experience design, while at Crown Equipment Corporation, they conducted field and lab research and organized workshops with stakeholders.

Yashodhan Mandke began their career as a Product Designer at Snapdeal, where they collaborated with product and development teams to improve the customer experience for the app users through order tracking IA and interface design.

Overall, Yashodhan Mandke's work experience demonstrates their expertise in user experience design, product design, and teaching, with a focus on simplifying complex applications and improving the customer experience.

Yashodhan Mandke holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Experience Design from Miami University, which was obtained from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, they pursued a Master of Design (MDes) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, from 2013 to 2015. Yashodhan also obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in Applied Arts from Savitribai Phule Pune University, where they studied from 2009 to 2013. In addition to their formal education, Yashodhan has obtained several certifications, including a UX Certificate from Nielsen Norman Group in May 2019 and a Hootsuite Platform Certificate from Hootsuite in May 2017.