Chandni Naidu Deadwyler

Chandni Naidu Deadwyler

Chandni Naidu Deadwyler

Designer and researcher specialising in financial services and data-driven product design.

Previously

Design Manager at Aspire (financial services for startups, $15B payment volume)

Research Lead on financial inclusion in Indonesia at Quicksand’s venture studio

Guest Faculty at leading design programs

Founder of Tactopus, an EdTech accessibility startup

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Recent work

Product Design

Research

FinTech

EdTech

A11y

Design of Digital Wallet Experience: Helping Startups Scale at the Speed of Trust

Having a robust financial system is essential for any team, and startups cannot afford to be weighed down by elaborate approval processes. At Aspire, I designed a seamless, agile payments solutions customised for the speed of startups.

Expense Management for Early-stage Teams

As teams grow, the complexity in policies increases, budgets become more detailed, and targets become bigger. To support teams through all these challenges, we designed innovative expense management tools for growing teams.

Accounting and Bookkeeping for Scaling Teams

Led design strategy to simplify complex financial workflows, enabling faster onboarding and boosting customer retention in Southeast Asia’s competitive fintech market.

Finance Dashboard With AI-powered Analytics

Solution for wealth advisors who were managing multi-million dollar portfolios using Excel, fragmented platforms, and manual reporting, making it challenging to identify at-risk clients or spot growth opportunities. AI tools were found to be effective in helping advisors' make decisions, but can text-based analytics be enriched with charts for richer analysis?

Designing for Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

To help mom-and-pop store owners in Jakarta use digital accounting tools, we needed to first understand what their aspirations and blockers were. I led the product research for this product that now makes $2.4M ARR as a thriving payment network.

Building Community With Casual Games

Hyper-casual games have played many roles to mobile gamers, including being used as fidget toys. In this research project, I uncover the utility of social interactions in hyper-casual games, how users like to share game experiences, and strategies to build for community engagement in mobile games.

Design-ops: How cross-functional collaboration can be streamlined

As our product team grew from 4 to 40, our processes needed to evolve to keep up. We analysed points of review, collaboration, and data flow to set up a smooth flow and reduce friction or repetition.

Multi-sensory Interactive Learning Tools, Tactopus

Built an award-winning multisensory learning platform, driving accessibility and inclusion in early education. Successfully scaled and acquired by an industry leader.

Product Design

Research

Financial Technology

Education Technology

Accessibility

Design of Digital Wallet Experience: Helping Startups Scale at the Speed of Trust

Having a robust financial system is essential for any team, and startups cannot afford to be weighed down by elaborate approval processes. At Aspire, I designed a seamless, agile payments solutions customised for the speed of startups.

Expense Management for Early-stage Teams

As teams grow, the complexity in policies increases, budgets become more detailed, and targets become bigger. To support teams through all these challenges, we designed innovative expense management tools for growing teams.

Accounting and Bookkeeping for Scaling Teams

Led design strategy to simplify complex financial workflows, enabling faster onboarding and boosting customer retention in Southeast Asia’s competitive fintech market.

Finance Dashboard With AI-powered Analytics

Solution for wealth advisors who were managing multi-million dollar portfolios using Excel, fragmented platforms, and manual reporting, making it challenging to identify at-risk clients or spot growth opportunities. AI tools were found to be effective in helping advisors' make decisions, but can text-based analytics be enriched with charts for richer analysis?

Designing for Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

To help mom-and-pop store owners in Jakarta use digital accounting tools, we needed to first understand what their aspirations and blockers were. I led the product research for this product that now makes $2.4M ARR as a thriving payment network.

Building Community With Casual Games

Hyper-casual games have played many roles to mobile gamers, including being used as fidget toys. In this research project, I uncover the utility of social interactions in hyper-casual games, how users like to share game experiences, and strategies to build for community engagement in mobile games.

Design-ops: How cross-functional collaboration can be streamlined

As our product team grew from 4 to 40, our processes needed to evolve to keep up. We analysed points of review, collaboration, and data flow to set up a smooth flow and reduce friction or repetition.

Multi-sensory Interactive Learning Tools, Tactopus

Built an award-winning multisensory learning platform, driving accessibility and inclusion in early education. Successfully scaled and acquired by an industry leader.

Product

Research

FinTech

EdTech

A11y

Design of Digital Wallet Experience: Helping Startups Scale at the Speed of Trust

Having a robust financial system is essential for any team, and startups cannot afford to be weighed down by elaborate approval processes. At Aspire, I designed a seamless, agile payments solutions customised for the speed of startups.

Expense Management for Early-stage Teams

As teams grow, the complexity in policies increases, budgets become more detailed, and targets become bigger. To support teams through all these challenges, we designed innovative expense management tools for growing teams.

Accounting and Bookkeeping for Scaling Teams

Led design strategy to simplify complex financial workflows, enabling faster onboarding and boosting customer retention in Southeast Asia’s competitive fintech market.

Finance Dashboard With AI-powered Analytics

Solution for wealth advisors who were managing multi-million dollar portfolios using Excel, fragmented platforms, and manual reporting, making it challenging to identify at-risk clients or spot growth opportunities. AI tools were found to be effective in helping advisors' make decisions, but can text-based analytics be enriched with charts for richer analysis?

Language Models and Text Analysis

Language models, at their very core, can be described as extremely sophisticated text analysis tools. Their most popular applications are in text generation, but what are the inherent text-analysis abilities that can be powerful tools for research in the humanities?

In this workshop/talk, I explore these possibilities in detail.

Designing for Financial Inclusion in Indonesia

To help mom-and-pop store owners in Jakarta use digital accounting tools, we needed to first understand what their aspirations and blockers were. I led the product research for this product that now makes $2.4M ARR as a thriving payment network.

Building Community With Casual Games

Hyper-casual games have played many roles to mobile gamers, including being used as fidget toys. In this research project, I uncover the utility of social interactions in hyper-casual games, how users like to share game experiences, and strategies to build for community engagement in mobile games.

Making and Breaking the User-Usage Model: WhatsApp Adoption Amongst Emergent Users in India

In 2016, India had one billion mobile users, 220 million smartphone users and 100 million active WhatsApp users - many of whom were people with limited education, minimal technology exposure, and often economic constraints. Despite these barriers, WhatsApp became their preferred communication tool. We analyze how this has come to be, using a framework task abilities in emergent users.

Design-ops: How cross-functional collaboration can be streamlined

As our product team grew from 4 to 40, our processes needed to evolve to keep up. We analysed points of review, collaboration, and data flow to set up a smooth flow and reduce friction or repetition.

Immersive and Tangible Physics Lesson Aid

During a two week residency at Agastya Foundation, I designed a playable kit for middle schoolers to experiment with light, reflections, refractions. This hands-on activity supplements their physics lessons on behavior of light.

Multi-sensory Interactive Learning Tools, Tactopus

Built an award-winning multisensory learning platform, driving accessibility and inclusion in early education. Successfully scaled and acquired by an industry leader.

Packaging of FMCG and Medical Products: An Accessibility Report

Research project to understand how visually impaired individuals navigate consumer products

Design of an Accessible Keyboard

Design of a soft keyboard that utilizes tactile, tangible features of smartphone devices to help people with blindness type more easily.