“I've had the pleasure of collaborating with Lakshmi on a significant project where her dedication and strategic thinking stood out. From the get-go, she aligned our project goals with clear success criteria, ensuring a focused approach. Her in-depth analysis of our internal data, combined with patient insights, informed our designs brilliantly. Even under budgetary constraints, Lakshmi's ingenuity shone through, leading us to a practical and innovative solution. Her commitment to standardizing UI elements, reflecting our brand identity, and emphasizing accessibility makes her an invaluable asset. I highly recommend Lakshmi for any team looking for a visionary contributor.”

Ronnie Sharpe, Co-founder and COO of Savvy Cooperative

“Lakshmi is vibrant, creative, and passionate about interaction design. In addition to her excellent customer research skills, she's able to take find unique insights and turn them into design opportunities, always with people in mind. She quickly picked-up new technologies and contexts across the spectrum of experiences that went so far beyond typical screen design. Her curiosity and open mindset helped her in her design work as well as her collaborative skills, working easily on different teams. She's not afraid of complexity or detail and she communicates clearly. She takes critique well, and gives it sensitively, too. She would make an insightful addition to any team or organization.”

Nathan Shedroff, Full Professor at California College of the Arts

“Lakshmi was one of my students in my Studio Form graduate class at CCA. Over the 14 week course, I saw Lakshmi grow immensely. She went above and beyond what's expected and delivered exceptional work consistently every week. Lakshmi is a natural leader and supported her classmates by giving well-articulated feedback that helped pushed everyone's work to be stronger. Lakshmi has a curiosity unique among her peers — I'm confident that her sharp product thinking and visual design skills will be an asset to any team.”

Blake Hudelson, Co-founder and Chief Design Officer at BoomPop

“I had a chance to work with Lakshmi on a semester-long project. Lakshmi's ideas always stem from her excellent observation skills and rigorous analytic thinking process, which always end up being the critical factor for achieving our project's goal. She has a crucial lens that finds logic to make things happen and is a sensible and constructive ideator. Apart from her skills, she is a consistent learner, reflector, and fantastic collaborator. And I would love to say Lakshmi is a great-hearted, understanding, and thoughtful person as a friend and colleague. You will be inspired while working with her.”

Yuha Kim, UX Designer at Certik