Chandan Jonnavithula

Chandan Jonnavithula

Product designer

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Strategic Product designer who believes even the most complex financial systems deserve a human touch. 4+ years designing platforms for wealth management, banking, and payments across web and mobile apps. Grounding every design in research and data, shipping it polished and accessible. A systems thinker who turns fragmented, high-stakes workflows into experiences people can trust.

Strategic Product designer who believes even the most complex financial systems deserve a human touch. 4+ years designing platforms for wealth management, banking, and payments across web and mobile apps. Grounding every design in research and data, shipping it polished and accessible. A systems thinker who turns fragmented, high-stakes workflows into experiences people can trust.

Work experience

Product Designer

May 2024 – Present

CX Studios · Indianapolis (Remote)

Engagement: RateSense by Marsh

  • Owned end-to-end UX design of RateSense for Marsh, a Fortune 500 wealth and asset management firm. Replaced a manual, three-platform process with an AI-powered platform, cutting report turnaround from 6–8 weeks to 1–2 days.

  • Owned end-to-end UX design of RateSense for Marsh, a Fortune 500 wealth and asset management firm. Replaced a manual, three-platform process with an AI-powered platform, cutting report turnaround from 6–8 weeks to 1–2 days.

  • Conducted interviews with 12 due-diligence researchers, synthesizing research insights into a future-state user journey map. Collaborated with 3 GenAI engineers to identify 5 AI-automatable steps and 3 human-in-the-loop checkpoints, validated user flows and wireframes through design critique sessions with product managers and SMEs.

  • Conducted interviews with 12 due-diligence researchers, synthesizing research insights into a future-state user journey map. Collaborated with 3 GenAI engineers to identify 5 AI-automatable steps and 3 human-in-the-loop checkpoints, validated user flows and wireframes through design critique sessions with product managers and SMEs.

  • Designed 7 post-launch features, including a trust and transparency layer with source attribution and inline citations, increasing user satisfaction from 75% to 90%. Demoed the platform to global executives, securing buy-in for a broader rollout.

  • Designed 7 post-launch features, including a trust and transparency layer with source attribution and inline citations, increasing user satisfaction from 75% to 90%. Demoed the platform to global executives, securing buy-in for a broader rollout.

Engagement: Playbook by CX Studios

  • Led end-to-end (0-to-1) UX/UI design of an AI dashboard and RAG interface for bank managers and client-facing teams. Replaced manual searches across 3 tools that delayed inquiry responses with on-demand answers, cutting time-to-information by 75% (16 to 4 minutes).

  • Led end-to-end (0-to-1) UX/UI design of an AI dashboard and RAG interface for bank managers and client-facing teams. Replaced manual searches across 3 tools that delayed inquiry responses with on-demand answers, cutting time-to-information by 75% (16 to 4 minutes).

  • Ran discovery workshops with 15 SMEs, surfacing 8 personas across admin and user-level experiences. Findings shaped a knowledge-base-driven chat and prompt library feature that reduced follow-up prompts per inquiry from 5.6 to 2.3.

  • Ran discovery workshops with 15 SMEs, surfacing 8 personas across admin and user-level experiences. Findings shaped a knowledge-base-driven chat and prompt library feature that reduced follow-up prompts per inquiry from 5.6 to 2.3.

  • Created a 32-component atomic design system in Figma to deliver a high-fidelity prototype built to scale, activating remaining personas without requiring a subsequent redesign.

  • Created a 32-component atomic design system in Figma to deliver a high-fidelity prototype built to scale, activating remaining personas without requiring a subsequent redesign.

Engagement: Citi-Connect by Xoriant

  • Led a 4-week design sprint for a B2B billing and payments dashboard. Restructured the information architecture and replaced an unstructured table with data visualization and custom saved views, enabling 3x faster reconciliation of financial reports.

  • Led a 4-week design sprint for a B2B billing and payments dashboard. Restructured the information architecture and replaced an unstructured table with data visualization and custom saved views, enabling 3x faster reconciliation of financial reports.

  • Applied a Jobs-to-Be-Done framework to map treasury manager workflows. Used a feature prioritization matrix to narrow 10 concepts to 4 must-have features, delivering an accessible, WCAG 2.1-compliant, high-fidelity prototype.

  • Applied a Jobs-to-Be-Done framework to map treasury manager workflows. Used a feature prioritization matrix to narrow 10 concepts to 4 must-have features, delivering an accessible, WCAG 2.1-compliant, high-fidelity prototype.

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Work experience (continued)

Founding Product Designer

January 2024 – December 2024

LocHist LLC · Indianapolis, Indiana

  • Owned end-to-end product design for Enroute, a D2C AI travel itinerary app, from market analysis to high-fidelity prototyping. Benchmarked against Tripadvisor and Wanderlog to identify a gap in personalized, collaborative trip planning, achieving a 90% perceived adoption rate (n=50).

  • Owned end-to-end product design for Enroute, a D2C AI travel itinerary app, from market analysis to high-fidelity prototyping. Benchmarked against Tripadvisor and Wanderlog to identify a gap in personalized, collaborative trip planning, achieving a 90% perceived adoption rate (n=50).

  • Shaped the mobile app’s revenue model and designed a GenAI-powered personalization engine tailoring itineraries to traveler preferences. Validated the design through usability testing across 3 user flows, achieving a 100% task completion rate (n=10).

  • Shaped the mobile app’s revenue model and designed a GenAI-powered personalization engine tailoring itineraries to traveler preferences. Validated the design through usability testing across 3 user flows, achieving a 100% task completion rate (n=10).

Product Analyst

January 2021 – December 2022

Smart Energy Water · Noida, India

  • Steered multiple SaaS projects for Sempra Utilities, serving 3 million monthly customers, within an Agile framework. Translated business requirements into 75+ user scenarios shaping product vision across 4 cycles for mass-market and enterprise personas.

  • Steered multiple SaaS projects for Sempra Utilities, serving 3 million monthly customers, within an Agile framework. Translated business requirements into 75+ user scenarios shaping product vision across 4 cycles for mass-market and enterprise personas.

  • Spearheaded an ADA accessibility compliance implementation across all products, conducting heuristic evaluations, UAT, and moderated testing on iOS and Android. Reduced user error rates by 22.25% and secured a 95% stakeholder approval rate.

  • Spearheaded an ADA accessibility compliance implementation across all products, conducting heuristic evaluations, UAT, and moderated testing on iOS and Android. Reduced user error rates by 22.25% and secured a 95% stakeholder approval rate.

Education

M.S in Human-Computer Interaction

Graduation: December 2024

Indiana University, Indianapolis

Indiana University, Indianapolis

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering

Graduation: May 2021

BML Munjal University

BML Munjal University

Awards and Recognitions

People’s Choice Award

December 2024

HCI Capstone Fair, Indiana University Indianapolis

HCI Capstone Fair, Indiana University Indianapolis

Innovation Scholarship

June 2024

Indiana University, Indianapolis

Indiana University, Indianapolis

Excellence Award

June 2022, December 2021

Smart Energy Water

Smart Energy Water

Skills

Research

Qualitative & Quantitative Research, Journey Mapping, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, Experience Strategy

Qualitative & Quantitative Research, Journey Mapping, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Design, Experience Strategy

Design

User Flows, Wireframing, Prototyping, Information Architecture, Design Systems, WCAG 2.1, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Standards

User Flows, Wireframing, Prototyping, Information Architecture, Design Systems, WCAG 2.1, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Web Standards

Tools

Figma, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, AI prototyping tools

Figma, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite, AI prototyping tools

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