Chandni Naidu Deadwyler

product designer

Product design, research, and strategy for data-driven workflows.

Product design, research, and strategy for data-driven workflows.

I'm a Product Design Leader with 8 years of experience building digital products, including being a founder in education technology.


As a designer, I've built products that do the heavy lifting for customer's needs, making them sticky and indispensable.

As a leader & manager, I've built happy & successful teams, and provided the right environment for designers to do the best work of their career.

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Recent work

Design of Digital Wallet Experience: Helping Startups Scale at the Speed of Trust

Having a robust financial system is essential for any team, and startups cannot afford to be weighed down by elaborate approval processes. At Aspire, I designed a seamless, agile payments solutions customised for the speed of startups.

Product Design, Product Management, Graphic Design

12 min read

Design-ops: Setting up design, review and
hand-off process for collaboration and speed

As the product team at Aspire grew from 4 to 40, we started to look at design culture more consciously. On analysing points of review, collaboration, and data flow, I helped set up smooth work flows, built platform cohesion and wrote process documents to be a single source of truth.

Design-ops, Program management, Design Culture

8 min read

Language Models and Text Analysis

Language models, can be described as extremely sophisticated text analysis tools. Their most popular applications are in text generation, but what are the inherent text-analysis abilities that can be powerful tools for research in the humanities?

In this workshop/talk, I explore these possibilities in detail.

Research, Product Design, Data Visualization, Learning Design

8 min read

Designing for Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

To help mom-and-pop store owners in Jakarta use digital accounting tools, we needed to first understand what their aspirations and blockers were. I led the product research for this product that now makes $2.4M ARR as a thriving payment network.

Research Design, Research-ops, Strategy, Product Design

12 min read

Multi-sensory Interactive Learning Tools, Tactopus

Built an award-winning multi-sensory learning platform, driving accessibility and inclusion in early education. Successfully scaled and acquired by an industry leader.

Research, Product Design, Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Team-building, Design Culture, Process Management

12 min read

Developing a Cognitive Model of Emergent Tech Users in India

In 2016, India had one billion mobile users, 220 million smartphone users and 100 million active WhatsApp users - many of whom were people with limited education, minimal technology exposure, and often economic constraints. Despite these barriers, WhatsApp became their preferred communication tool. We analyze how this has come to be, using a framework task abilities in emergent users.

Research, Research-ops, Ethnography, HCI

12 min read

Design of Digital Wallet Experience: Helping Startups Scale at the Speed of Trust

Having a robust financial system is essential for any team, and startups cannot afford to be weighed down by elaborate approval processes. At Aspire, I designed a seamless, agile payments solutions customised for the speed of startups.

Product Design, Product Management, Graphic Design

12 min read

Design-ops: Setting up design, review and
hand-off process for collaboration and speed

As the product team at Aspire grew from 4 to 40, we started to look at design culture more consciously. On analysing points of review, collaboration, and data flow, I helped set up smooth work flows, built platform cohesion and wrote process documents to be a single source of truth.

Design-ops, Program management, Design Culture

8 min read

Language Models and Text Analysis

Language models, can be described as extremely sophisticated text analysis tools. Their most popular applications are in text generation, but what are the inherent text-analysis abilities that can be powerful tools for research in the humanities?

In this workshop/talk, I explore these possibilities in detail.

Research, Product Design, Data Visualization, Learning Design

8 min read

Designing for Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

To help mom-and-pop store owners in Jakarta use digital accounting tools, we needed to first understand what their aspirations and blockers were. I led the product research for this product that now makes $2.4M ARR as a thriving payment network.

Research Design, Research-ops, Strategy, Product Design

12 min read

Multi-sensory Interactive Learning Tools, Tactopus

Built an award-winning multi-sensory learning platform, driving accessibility and inclusion in early education. Successfully scaled and acquired by an industry leader.

Research, Product Design, Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Team-building, Design Culture, Process Management

12 min read

Developing a Cognitive Model of Emergent Tech Users in India

In 2016, India had one billion mobile users, 220 million smartphone users and 100 million active WhatsApp users - many of whom were people with limited education, minimal technology exposure, and often economic constraints. Despite these barriers, WhatsApp became their preferred communication tool. We analyze how this has come to be, using a framework task abilities in emergent users.

Research, Research-ops, Ethnography, HCI

12 min read

Design of Digital Wallet Experience: Helping Startups Scale at the Speed of Trust

Having a robust financial system is essential for any team, and startups cannot afford to be weighed down by elaborate approval processes. At Aspire, I designed a seamless, agile payments solutions customised for the speed of startups.

Product Design, Product Management, Graphic Design

12 min read

Design-ops: Setting up design, review and
hand-off process for collaboration and speed

As the product team at Aspire grew from 4 to 40, we started to look at design culture more consciously. On analysing points of review, collaboration, and data flow, I helped set up smooth work flows, built platform cohesion and wrote process documents to be a single source of truth.

Design-ops, Program management, Design Culture

8 min read

Language Models and Text Analysis

Language models, can be described as extremely sophisticated text analysis tools. Their most popular applications are in text generation, but what are the inherent text-analysis abilities that can be powerful tools for research in the humanities?

In this workshop/talk, I explore these possibilities in detail.

Research, Product Design, Data Visualization, Learning Design

8 min read

Designing for Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

To help mom-and-pop store owners in Jakarta use digital accounting tools, we needed to first understand what their aspirations and blockers were. I led the product research for this product that now makes $2.4M ARR as a thriving payment network.

Research Design, Research-ops, Strategy, Product Design

12 min read

Multi-sensory Interactive Learning Tools, Tactopus

Built an award-winning multi-sensory learning platform, driving accessibility and inclusion in early education. Successfully scaled and acquired by an industry leader.

Research, Product Design, Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Team-building, Design Culture, Process Management

12 min read

Developing a Cognitive Model of Emergent Tech Users in India

In 2016, India had one billion mobile users, 220 million smartphone users and 100 million active WhatsApp users - many of whom were people with limited education, minimal technology exposure, and often economic constraints. Despite these barriers, WhatsApp became their preferred communication tool. We analyze how this has come to be, using a framework task abilities in emergent users.

Research, Research-ops, Ethnography, HCI

12 min read

Design of Digital Wallet Experience: Helping Startups Scale at the Speed of Trust

Having a robust financial system is essential for any team, and startups cannot afford to be weighed down by elaborate approval processes. At Aspire, I designed a seamless, agile payments solutions customised for the speed of startups.

Product Design, Product Management, Graphic Design

12 min read

Design-ops: Setting up design, review and
hand-off process for collaboration and speed

As the product team at Aspire grew from 4 to 40, we started to look at design culture more consciously. On analysing points of review, collaboration, and data flow, I helped set up smooth work flows, built platform cohesion and wrote process documents to be a single source of truth.

Design-ops, Program management, Design Culture

8 min read

Language Models and Text Analysis

Language models, can be described as extremely sophisticated text analysis tools. Their most popular applications are in text generation, but what are the inherent text-analysis abilities that can be powerful tools for research in the humanities?

In this workshop/talk, I explore these possibilities in detail.

Research, Product Design, Data Visualization, Learning Design

8 min read

Designing for Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

To help mom-and-pop store owners in Jakarta use digital accounting tools, we needed to first understand what their aspirations and blockers were. I led the product research for this product that now makes $2.4M ARR as a thriving payment network.

Research Design, Research-ops, Strategy, Product Design

12 min read

Multi-sensory Interactive Learning Tools, Tactopus

Built an award-winning multi-sensory learning platform, driving accessibility and inclusion in early education. Successfully scaled and acquired by an industry leader.

Research, Product Design, Product Management, Entrepreneurship, Hiring, Team-building, Design Culture, Process Management

12 min read

Developing a Cognitive Model of Emergent Tech Users in India

In 2016, India had one billion mobile users, 220 million smartphone users and 100 million active WhatsApp users - many of whom were people with limited education, minimal technology exposure, and often economic constraints. Despite these barriers, WhatsApp became their preferred communication tool. We analyze how this has come to be, using a framework task abilities in emergent users.

Research, Research-ops, Ethnography, HCI

12 min read

Get in touch to explore what we can build together

Get in touch to explore what we can build together

Currently open to full time work or contracts in product design, research and strategy in finance, healthcare and ed-tech. Remote, or in-person in 📍NYC.

About

chandni.naidu@outlook.com

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About

chandni.naidu@outlook.com

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About

chandni.naidu@outlook.com

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About

chandni.naidu@outlook.com

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