Athena Daneshmandi

My passion is UX research, design, technology, travel, and cultural studies. I am particularly interested in how technology impacts people from different regions and how they interact with it on a daily basis. My goal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of their expectations and needs to ideate innovative user experience solutions that meet these needs.

By exploring different cultures and their unique perspectives, I hope to contribute to the UX design in technology that is globally impactful.

• Conducted research aimed at enhancing the user interface design by analyzing users’ needs, and observing behavior patterns.
• Designed and developed Norton Secure VPN UI on Windows.
• Crafted design systems, information architecture documents,

customer and competitor analyses, flows, sketches, wireframes,

usability tests, and mockups.

• Followed design consistency with Norton’s branding guidelines.
• Tested the Norton Secure VPN brand vision to ensure alignment with the users’ needs and business goals.

California State Polytechnic

University, Pomona

Master in Computer Science

Spring 2017, GPA: 3.9/4.0

California State Polytechnic

University, Pomona

Bachelor in Computer Science

Spring 2013, GPA: 3.6/4.0