Kavitadesigns  - Crafting Intuitive UX Experiences

About Me

My Work

Kinduct staff application

I’m a UX designer with over two decades of experience shaping digital products across a wide range of industries — from enterprise and healthcare to sports and, most recently, government sector.

Crafting Intuitive UX Experiences

Design with purpose, impact lives meaningfully.

Kavitadesigns

My journey has taken me across three countries: a decade in India, several years in California, and now proudly based in Canada. Currently, I lead my own consultancy, Users First Design Studio, where I work full-time as a UX contractor with the Government of Alberta.Outside of design, I’m also passionate about sewing and quilting. I enjoy creating functional, everyday items that bring both beauty and utility to daily life. Sharing these handcrafted projects with family and friends has been a meaningful way to stay connected and express care through creativity.A friend once said, “It’s easy to buy a gift, but it takes real thought to make one.” That insight inspired me to invest more time in personal projects — not just as a creative outlet, but as a way to be intentional and thoughtful beyond my professional work.

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Craft intuitive and engaging interfaces that enhance user interaction and satisfaction.

Interaction Design

Organize and structure content effectively to improve navigation and user understanding.

Information Architecture

Provide expert guidance on aligning business goals with user needs to create effective UX strategies.

UX Strategy & Consulting

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Kinduct Athlete Mobile Application

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User Experience Design

Develop low and high-fidelity prototypes to visualize and test design concepts early in the process.

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Wireframing & Prototyping

UX Design Services

<h3>Context</h3>When I joined the project, one of challenges we heard from our clients were athlete coaches were facing a critical gap. They spent their days on training floors, fields, and courts, constantly moving and focused on athletes. The only place they could view alerts and performance insights was a web platform that required time, a laptop, and reliable internet. Most coaches didn’t have any of those during their workday.That meant serious risks could go unnoticed until it was too late.This was the moment where the opportunity became clear. If coaches couldn’t come to the data, the data needed to go to them.<h4>Seeing the Problem Through the Coach’s Eyes</h4>To understand the real challenge, I started by learning how coaches worked. Through conversations, task observations, and reviewing existing platform usage, one theme stood out. Coaches wanted to know only one thing in the moment.<h4>Is anyone on my team at risk right now?</h4>They didn’t have time to dig, filter, or interpret. They needed fast signals, not dashboards. This insight became the foundation for the entire experience.

Designing a Mobile Experience That Helps Coaches Act in Real Time

Design thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer's toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success. Design thinking has a human-centered core. It encourages organizations to focus on the people they're creating for, which leads to better products, services, and internal processes.

The goal wasn’t to recreate the entire web platform on a phone. It was to design a focused mobile tool that helped coaches: • Spot athletes who needed attention • Understand why an alert mattered • Take action quickly • Stay informed even with limited connectivityThis clarity helped shape an MVP that solved immediate pain instead of overwhelming users with features.

Framing the Design Opportunity

The primary persona was a head or assistant coach responsible for athlete readiness and performance. Their days were packed, fast paced, and often spent in environments with poor internet access. They needed something that worked in their reality, not ideal conditions.

Their goals were simple: • Monitor athlete status • Stay aware of risks • Keep athletes engaged in data reportingTheir frustrations were equally direct: • They couldn’t access the web platform during training • They had no real time visibility into issues • They often learned about problems too lateThis persona helped the team stay grounded in real needs instead of assumptions.

Service design is a process in which the designer focuses on creating optimal service experiences. This requires taking a holistic view of all the related actors, their interactions, and supporting materials and infrastructures. Service design often involves the use of customer journey maps, which tell the story of different customers’ interactions with a brand, thus offering deep insights. 

<ol><li>Information Scalability Mobile screens cannot support dense dashboards. I prioritized:<ul><li>Most actionable data first</li><li>Recognition over exploration</li><li>Reduced cognitive load</li></ul></li><li>Notifications - Research insight: Coaches want to know immediately when an athlete is at risk.Design decision:<ul><li>Dedicated Notifications tab</li><li>Clear severity indicators</li><li>Context with suggested next steps</li><li>Filtering by alert type</li></ul></li><li>Offline Resilience - Training environments often have poor connectivity.We ensured:<ul><li>Essential data accessible offline</li><li>Clear indication when data may be outdated</li><li>Seamless sync when connection resumes</li></ul></li></ol>

Key Design Considerations

<ol><li>Athlete Management</li></ol><ul><li>Identify athletes requiring immediate attention</li><li>View performance metrics and alerts</li><li>Access athlete profiles and historical data</li><li></li></ul><ol start="2"><li>Data Management</li></ol><ul><li>Review reports and performance trends</li><li>Collect daily survey data</li><li>Enable group level data collection</li></ul>These defined the MVP scope.