Senior UX Researcher & Designer. 6+ years uncovering what people truly need — and crafting experiences that earn their trust.
Healthcare, fintech, clinical research and AI — six projects where research changed what got built.
Claims should never feel like a battle. We untangled a fragmented self-service experience for Medical Mutual members — replacing confusion and costly support calls with a mobile flow that actually guides people to resolution.

HR benefits management was drowning in spreadsheets and workarounds. We designed a smart, unified landing page for Medical Mutual's business clients — a single destination that replaced fragmented tools.

ISF Group benchmarks seafarer wages worldwide. I redesigned their wage platform and designed two decision tools on top of it — wage prediction and annual crew budgeting — so companies can compare markets and plan what a crew will cost.

When a chatbot, an IVR system, and a search tool each speak a different language, members get lost. Deep research across USAA's conversational AI touchpoints surfaced the friction — laying the foundation for an experience that feels like a conversation, not a transaction.

TriNetX had value — users just couldn't see it. We identified which features drove genuine engagement and which barriers quietly pushed users away, reframing product strategy around what actually moved adoption.

A new rewards program is only as strong as the trust behind it. We explored how CFNA customers truly perceive their credit card options — the mental models, hesitations, and motivators that shape their choices.

I'm Kshanika Patel — a Senior UX Researcher and Designer based in San Francisco, CA, with over 6 years of experience making the invisible visible. I specialise in uncovering the gap between what people say, what they do, and what they actually need — and translating that into products that earn trust.
I've led foundational research, usability studies, concept testing, and end-to-end design sprints across a range of industries — always with the same north star: putting the human at the centre.
Outside the research lab, I'm drawn to systems thinking, speculative design, and the occasional unnecessarily long walk that somehow always leads to a breakthrough insight.
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