I'm Indudhara Havaldar - a Product Designer with 6+ years of experience turning early-stage ideas into investor-ready prototypes. Currently Design Lead at IVI, Maynooth University.
Each project tells a different story about how I think - from 0 to 1 research to feature design in a mature system.
From a problem statement with zero validated direction, I conducted 10 user interviews across both sides of a two-sided marketplace, synthesised the research into personas and red routes, and delivered a greyscale prototype used in the client's pitch deck.
Designed a full high-fidelity prototype for a racehorse health monitoring platform - in a domain I knew nothing about. Built on AI-assisted research, the prototype exceeded client expectations enough to leave them speechless.
A net-new feature added to a 3-year-old industrial IoT product in one week. The key design decision was restructuring the existing flow to resolve a data dependency the new feature created.
I'm a Product Designer based in Maynooth, Ireland, currently working as Design Lead at the Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University - where I help early-stage startups turn ideas into investor-ready prototypes.
I work across the full design process: user research, information architecture, interaction design, and high-fidelity prototyping. Most of the time I'm the only designer in the room, which means I've learned to make good decisions quickly and communicate them clearly.
Before IVI, I spent two years at HashedIn by Deloitte working on complex B2B products, and four years at Accenture where I built my first product from scratch as a solo designer.
Outside of work, I practice calligraphy - which probably explains why I have strong opinions about type. I also cook and sing, though those skills are harder to work into a design rationale.
Whether you're building something new or fixing something broken - I'd love to hear about it.