Senior product designer with 6 years in enterprise apps

Currently designing help & support at NielsenIQ

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Great design should aspire to feel obvious, like there never was a better way to do it.

Who is
Darshan Aildasani?

I'm a multimedia technology alumni from ICAT Design and Media College, Chennai. I enjoy simplifying complex systems into simple solutions. Currently at NielsenIQ, designing the NIQ Service Suite.

Background

Design philosophy

Career history

Collaboration style

Aesthetics vs usability

Empathetic? How?

Staying inspired

Outside of work :)

IntentionalConsideredAestheticRefined

These four words drive everything I create. I’ve always found joy in making things and finding new ways to improve my surroundings. My work is all about addressing real needs with elegant, lasting solutions. By collaborating with others, we can achieve results that far exceed what any individual could do alone. I like thinking big, moving swiftly yet carefully, zooming out on strategy, and zooming in on the smallest details. I’m always growing, learning, and getting better. Most importantly, I want my contributions to have real meaning.

Harmonizing color, shape, and type:

since 2016

Read from the pioneers

Discover what clients, colleagues, and collaborators have to say about working with Darshan - turning intricate challenges into intuitive, delightful experiences, one pixel at a time.

  • Since the beginning, Darshan's passion for user design has been driving our Service suite. Darshan's methodic approach to end-research to drive his designs has ensured we're meeting clients needs. Darshan doesn't shy away from asking questions and re-exploring new ways to approach a design problem and strives for perfection!

    Karolina Roszel

    Director of Product

    I really like working with Darshan. He has a positive and collaborative attitude. He's creative and very open to feedback. MSD is a very complex space which requires him to juggle a lot of different projects, which he has done a great job delivering all of them. He comes prepared for every meeting and is always willing to go above and beyond to meet tight deadlines.

    Darlene Muller

    Product owner at NielsenIQ

    Darshan should continue to work on creating fantastic designs for the features. His inputs on outreach of timelines items feature were exceptional. He should also continue doing user research frequently. His user research done few months ago was very helpful in streamlining the user experience for our users.

    Shail Joshi

    Sales process owner at NielsenIQ

    Darshan Aildasani getting major kudos on their research from Karolina, the VP of Product! Incredible job taking something that was a mess and turning it around.

    Ana Bernado

    Lead designer at NielsenIQ

    Thank you Darshan Aildasani for the great UX research....listened to the full summary of the findings, read through all the details. Very happy with what you found and agree with the team. This was so worth the time you invested into the research, it really reinforces the investment into this vision.

    Karolina Roszel

    VP, Leadership at NielsenIQ

    Kudos to Darshan for quickly finishing a bunch of hi-fi designs for NSS so we can catch up with the work - and overall the work on the support site!

    Ana Bernardo

    Lead designer, NIQ

    Thanks for the compelling support site research presentation for Karolina!

    Bethany Mclellan

    Lead designer, NIQ

    Kudos to Darshan for pursuing varied (interviews, usability tests, workshops, tree tests) research opportunities within Internal tools!

    Usri Ganguly

    Senior reseacher, NIQ

    Thank you for creating a template for standardizing heuristic evaluations, the widget is super cool. Thank you for sharing!

    Jimmy Martin

    UX Director, NIQ

    Kudos to Darshan for stepping in and contributing to the CSO project so quickly and tackling a complicated space with little background.

    Thad Perkins

    UX Director, NIQ