Karishma Shivlingkar

About Karishma Shivlingkar

I’m a Senior UX Designer with 9+ years of experience designing end-to-end digital experiences across fintech, insurance, edtech, smart devices, and data-driven platforms. My work spans complex ecosystems where clarity, structure, and strategic thinking are essential.My core strength is research synthesis transforming large volumes of qualitative and quantitative inputs into clear opportunity spaces, product direction, and intuitive user journeys. I specialise in simplifying multi-step, data-heavy, or technically complex experiences into systems users can navigate effortlessly.Across my career, I’ve worked on: • multi-platform financial products & insurance workflows • smart-device ecosystems and control interfaces • B2C/B2B dashboards with layered information architectures • subscription and high-conversion funnels • AI-assisted UX analysis, insight generation, and ideation • complex onboarding, operational tools, and enterprise journeys • behaviour-based experience optimisationI’m driven by a product mindset, strong cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to bring order to ambiguity through structured frameworks, IA, journey modelling, and design systems. My approach emphasises clarity, measurable outcomes, and elegant simplification of complex problems.Always evolving as a designer. Always learning. Always building meaningful, user-centred experiences.

Experience

1. Senior User Experience Designer

   Spinach Experience Design

   Feb 2025 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   As a Senior UX Designer, I lead end-to-end design across complex product ecosystems, blending research, product strategy, and system thinking to create intuitive, high-impact experiences.Key Responsibilities & Focus Areas• Driving UX for large-scale digital journeys across fintech, insurance, and multi-platform environments• Leading research synthesis across interviews, behavioural data and qualitative inputs• Converting insights into opportunity models, product hypotheses, and structured frameworks• Designing information architecture, interaction models, and scalable UX patterns• Simplifying data-heavy, multi-step workflows into clear, usable journeys• Partnering closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to align direction• Leading workshops, discovery sessions, and cross-functional design discussions• Applying AI-assisted analysis for faster insight generation and ideation• Documenting design rationale, flows, frameworks, and stakeholder-ready artefactsImpact Highlights• Elevated complex financial and insurance journeys through clarity, simplification, and structured thinking• Improved user comprehension across onboarding, dashboard, payment and decision-heavy flows• Strengthened collaboration across teams through clear communication and UX frameworks• Enabled measurable improvements in user experience, task completion, and conversion pathsMy work centres around clarity, strategic decision-making, and designing experiences that function seamlessly across complex systems.

Education

• Goa University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

• DPGU School of Management & Research – Dr. D. Y. Patil Unitech Society

  Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science

  2014 — 2017