About Me
An avid learner, reader plus a fitness, music and travel enthusiast. On the workfront, a Service Design fanatic and UX practitioner at IBM, with a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. I mentor wanna-be UXers and young graduates on ADPlist.org. I also share my expertise on design and tech communities like ProApp. I am amused by personal finance, revolutionary technology and I have experience of working in different industries on freelance and part-time international projects.
I am a people’s person. I am empathetic towards my team-members and I deeply care about people who are close to me. I love anchoring and organising events. I am an ardent music enthusiast, I've performed across various genres during my time at IBM. When I’m free, I love to travel and escape in the laps of nature. I also love photography - clicking and editing photos is my hobby. I am trying to amp up my content-creation game currently @freezing_pixels on Instagram.
Life at IBM in Pictures
At a Round Table Conference with the (Design) General Manager, Katrina Alcorn during IBM Design Festival
Diwali 2023 among IBM iXers - Hosted fun activities
Attending a talk on Career, Design and Life by Rudi Sellers, Creative Director of Experience Selling Team at IBM
Diwali 2023 among IBM iXers - Hosted fun activities
Independence Day 2023 among IBM iXers - Hosted fun activities
Diwali 2023 - Performing classical song at the studio
Diwali 2023 @IBM Bangalore - Hosted the event
Facilitated “Design & AI” Round Table Conference
Just a normal day at the IBM iX Studio
First Day in office - IBM Bhubaneswar
Round Table Conf. with IBM Design GM
Hosted Diwali function @IBM Bangalore
Hosted Diwali function @IBM Bangalore
Independence Day 2023 among IBMers
Talk by Rudi Sellers, Creative Director
Performing classical song at the studio
Hosted Diwali function @IBM Bangalore
Facilitated “Design & AI” Discussion
Just a normal day at the IBM iX Studio
First Day in office - IBM Bhubaneswar
Hear it from them
I directly managed Shreelekha on a project I was volunteering. She has always been prompt, disciplined and participative. Her quick turn-around times had allowed us to fit in a lot more in the one month of the project than what was planned.
~ Mohini Binepal, Co-Founder & Head-Retail, Ruosh Ex. Head-Products, Kaya Skin Clinic
Shreelekha joined ID Mobile Project as UX Designer in July’21, Project was under heavy pressure as we were already delayed on go live by 4 to 5 weeks. She was able to independently deliver the work assigned to her with Quality and she organized UX Design reviews with IBM Internal and Client teams. Client has appreciated for fast turn around on UX Designs. She is a good listener, Has taken feedback in a constructive way and has incorporated the comments successfully. She is a good team player and provides responses in a timely manner. I wish her the best for her future endeavors.
~ Murali Mynampati, Project Manager, iD Mobile | IBM
Shreelekha has been the best Graphic Designer we have had over our journey. She was extremely fast at her work and had a sharp eye for detail. She worked on multiple graphics in a short period of time & also designed the Ul of various modules of our website. She had remarkable patience in cases where multiple iterations were needed.
~Dhaval Udani, СЕО & Founder, danamojo; Ex-CEO, Give India
Shree is a self starter, a very confident person - who exactly understands business needs for her design to be as creative and at the same time match what the customer/client needs. She is an extremely good team player, knows her stuff, and can be an asset to any team.
She is one of the most niche designers - with amazing creativity and design ideas for solutions that client ask.
Have not seen any designer - with 1 year work exp, do so well! Kudos to her on this front.
~Shankalpa Mishra, Business Analyst, IBM
... always striving to improve and looking for opportunities to excel!
I have had NO issues what so ever working with you and am sure clients have the same view! You have been quick in delivering all the designs for EMBER and picked up really well.
To conclude, Shree has had an excellent run in the project, jelled well with the team and the clients, have been responsible, sincere towards work. Well done! Keep it up.
~ Mohit Makhija, Release Train Engineer, IBM