Divya Yendapally
Bio

A long way around to the work I love.

I started in HCI graduate research, building, breaking, and rebuilding small tools to understand how real people make sense of complex systems. That habit never left.

Today my work splits across three threads: enterprise UX for daily, expert users; research as the connective tissue that keeps design honest; and AI experiences, where the design problem is rarely about the model and almost always about trust, control, and recoverability.

When I'm not designing, I'm teaching part-time at SCAD and mentoring early-career designers, or trying to be a slightly better gardener than I was last weekend.

Now

Senior UX Designer · UPS

Based

Atlanta, GA

Education

M.S. Human–Computer Interaction

Also

Part-time Professor · SCAD

Figma FigJam Dovetail Maze Agentic AI Teaching Cursor HTML / CSS

A loose timeline

2021 → today
  1. 2024 → NOW

    Senior UX Designer · UPS

    Enterprise operational tools and design system contributions.

  2. 2024 → NOW

    Part-time Professor · SCAD

    Teaching UX to the next generation of designers, studio critique, real-world briefs, and portfolio mentorship.

  3. 2022–2024

    UX Designer · Consulting & in-house

    GovTech portal redesign (508/ADA), retail navigation research, SPARK product design.

  4. 2021–2022

    UI/UX Designer · Terran Orbital

    Operational and mission-tooling UX in the aerospace / satellite domain.

  5. 2021–2022

    M.S. Human–Computer Interaction

    Graduate research, prototype-driven studies, and early industry projects.

Say hi

Always up for a conversation about good design and the people behind it.

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