About
Hi, I'm Teja.
UX/UI & Product Designer with an MSc in Computer Science, specialising in Interaction Design, and 3 years designing end-to-end across web and mobile. I work from discovery research and information architecture through to high-fidelity Figma prototypes, developer-ready flows and usability testing.
My story
How I got here
My design journey started in my third year of university in India, when I realised design sat exactly where my two interests met: people and technology. I taught myself Figma, worked through courses on Udemy and Coursera, and got hooked on how much a thoughtful interface can change someone's day.
That curiosity brought me to Gothenburg, where I completed my Master's in Computer Science with a specialisation in Interaction Design at the University of Gothenburg. Since then I've redesigned an enterprise intranet, designed an AI career assistant from zero to dev-ready, built a sustainability app, and wired pressure sensors into a cushion to see what interaction design feels like when it isn't on a screen.
What connects all of it is a stubbornness about clarity. I want to know why a user hesitated, not just that they did, and I'd rather kill a beautiful screen than ship one that makes someone feel stupid.
How I work
Four things I refuse to skip
Research first, pixels later
Forty survey responses and six interviews before a single DevPort wireframe. The structure of a product is a research finding, not a style choice.
Design the decision, not just the screen
Every screen I hand over comes with the reasoning attached, why this layout, what it de-risks, what we'd test next.
Make AI feel explainable
On SwipeJobb, match percentages, live output panels and 'refine' escape hatches all exist for one reason: users trust what they can see working.
Hand-off is part of the design
Button logic, transition behaviour and edge-case states, documented. Developers shouldn't have to guess, and they shouldn't have to ask twice.
Experience
Where I've worked
Jun 2026 — Present
Associate UX/UI Designer
rNWIST · Sweden · Remote
Sole designer across SwipeJobb's mobile app, the B2B Business Panel and a new fashion-resale ecommerce platform. I lead design reviews, mentor the UX interns, and bridge design with developers and stakeholders.
Jan 2026 — Present
Freelance UX Consultant
Gravitad Systems · Spain · Remote
Independent UX advisory across multiple client technology projects, evaluating user flows, information architecture, interaction design and accessibility. Each engagement ends in a written report with risk analysis and prioritised recommendations.
Aug 2025 — Jun 2026
UX/UI Designer Intern
rNWIST · Sweden · Remote
Rebuilt the SwipeJobb Business Panel, an HR-facing recruiter dashboard, across 12+ screens. Also shaped the AI career assistant's conversational patterns, onboarding and trust-building cues.
Jan 2025 — Aug 2025
UX/UI Designer — Master's Thesis
DevPort AB · Gothenburg, Sweden · On-site
Led an end-to-end redesign of a workflow-heavy internal tool used daily across departments, researching with 40 employees. Restructured the information architecture to balance power-user efficiency against clarity for less technical staff.
Jan 2025 — Mar 2025
Teaching Assistant — Agile Development Practices
Chalmers University of Technology · Gothenburg, Sweden
Guided student teams through Agile sprints, backlog grooming and retrospectives, evaluating deliverables and giving design feedback across multiple sprints.
Sep 2022 — Jul 2023
UX/UI Designer Intern
Crafter · Hyderabad, India · Remote
Designed the full UI for a learning platform, using user research and competitive analysis to define its information architecture and visual system, alongside pitch-ready materials communicating design rationale to stakeholders.
Capabilities
What I bring
Research
- User interviews
- Surveys
- Usability testing
- Competitive analysis
- Personas
- Journey mapping
- Synthesis & affinity mapping
Design
- Information architecture
- Wireframing
- Interaction design
- Visual & UI design
- Design systems
- Prototyping
- Responsive web design
Tools
- Figma
- Miro
- Adobe Photoshop
- Arduino IDE
- Jupyter Notebook
- Microsoft Office
Ways of working
- Agile / Scrum
- Sprint planning
- Backlog grooming
- Developer hand-off
- Stakeholder workshops
Education
2023 — 2025
MSc Computer Science — Interaction Design
University of Gothenburg · Gothenburg, Sweden
2018 — 2022
BTech, Information Technology
Vignan's Lara Institute of Technology & Science · Andhra Pradesh, India
Languages
- EnglishProfessional working proficiency
- TeluguNative
- HindiConversational
- SwedishBasic