Deeksha Gupta
Product Designer 2 at Microsoft | Ex: BlinkIt
- Role
- User Experience Designer Ii at Microsoft
- Location
- South Delhi, DL, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Deeksha Gupta
Life is full of surprises and so are users!As a UX practitioner, I follow a thorough design process as per the problem at hand. I am customer-focussed in my decision making but ensure feasibility and cost at the same time. Empathy, attention to detail and holistic thinking is second nature to me now :) Let\'s connect for a further chat!
Experience
User Experience Designer Ii
Sep 2022 — Present · Noida, IN
Moved on from MS Whiteboard to MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint Shared Design Team.Promoted to the position of UX Designer II in <18 months on the basis of skills & impact within the team. Demonstrated leadership in defining the future of AI-powered productivity (Copilot) and driving modernization and usability across a suite of billions-of-users products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint = WXP).• First-ever-mobile-first-Copilot experience: Drove the strategic vision and design including the cross-app floating button, interaction model, and framework, targeting growth in Copilot WAU/MAU across WXP mobile apps.• Collab & File Management Copilot Agent: Conceptualized and designed the vision, automating asynchronous collaboration and file triage for file owners and collaborators, expected to reduce management time and impact Copilot WAU/MAU.• AI Powered WXP App Homepages: Spearheaded the introdution of AI-powered semantic search and Copilot quick actions for file triaging. Expected to significantly impact Copilot WAU/MAU by reducing user friction to find and resume work.• Modernization: Led the massive modernization initiative across WXP web & mobile, redesigning hundreds of shared components (e.g, dialogs, menus, header) to achieve parity with modern web apps, performance improvement and enhanced user delight.• Usability: Drove core usability improvements on WXP web & mobile, including Quick Row/Column Insertion Handles for tables, which over half of users immediately adopted, confirming high intuitiveness and successfull reduction in friction for key tasks.Apart from core design work, I have also been an active contributor to Microsoft\'s culture & storytelling initiatives:• Culture Head for a team of ~10 folks: Identify culture gaps, define actionable next steps and execute them over a period of 6 months, then repeat. Directly impacting team\'s Signals score.• Contributions at Studio+91 level: IDC Design Day, UX Bazaar, UX Day• Storytelling for All Hands, Blend conf.
Education
National Institute of Fashion Technology Delhi
Bachelor of Design
2013 — 2017
N. K. Bagrodia Public School
High School, Non-Medical Sciences
1999 — 2013
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Master of Design, Industrial Design
2018 — 2020
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