NYC-Based Designer & Strategist

Vi­disha

Driving innovation in FinTech for over 15 years. Rooted in a deep understanding of the stakeholder ecosystem, crafting strategic frameworks and conceptual models that inform better decision-making.

15+
Years in FinTech
$40B
Acquisition Facilitated
29%
Subscriber Growth
S&P Global EY Bank of America Morgan Stanley IHS Markit Pratt Institute S&P Global EY Bank of America Morgan Stanley IHS Markit Pratt Institute
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S&P Global Platts Platform
Platform Strategy UX Design FinTech Commodities
+29% Subscribers

Brought in by the Chief Product Officer to reshape siloed commodities platforms (Crude oil, LNG, and beyond), Vidisha led a major overhaul of the information architecture across a platform serving customers in 150+ countries.

Customers in more than 150 countries rely on S&P Global Platts for news, pricing, and analytics. Platts' benchmark price assessments underpin nearly 1,300 exchange-traded futures contracts globally.

Vidisha's analysis revealed that key user requirements could be met with refactored existing tools versus net-new applications — generating significant budget savings while accelerating delivery timelines.

Key Deliverables
  • Unified platform replacing legacy siloed commodity tools
  • Persona-driven personalization for Traders & Analysts
  • TradingView integration for commodity charting and futures
  • Sitemap & Market Insights Data Flowcharts
  • UX Playbook for repeatable, quality-driven releases
  • Style-guide mini-site for engineering: redlines, annotations, responsive layouts
$950M
S&P Global Platts Revenue in 2021 — 8% YoY increase from design implementation
02
S&P Global Platts CFlow
Product Design Vessel Tracking Geomapping Accessibility
Vessel Intelligence

CFlow is a vessel tracking and cargo intelligence tool within the S&P Global Platts ecosystem. Vidisha led the product analysis and contextual inquiry phase to identify critical UX friction points and define a prioritized improvement roadmap.

The work spanned consolidated navigation design, focused search UX, accessibility improvements for maritime contexts, and advanced filtering for vessel data across global shipping lanes.

Feature Areas
  • Consolidated navigation with focused Search — quick wins
  • Accessibility design for at-sea usage contexts
  • Scenario Prediction & Calculation interfaces
  • Advanced vessel data filtering and segmentation
  • Geomapping: cargo tracking in specific shipping zones
03
Bank of America — Research & Discovery
Research Personas Customer Experience
Life-size Personas

Designed a unique story-telling and experiential research installation for Bank of America using life-size digital personas. The experience allowed clients to think through product positioning by demonstrating active engagement and characterizing different customer segments.

The output created clear user journeys from a deeply human foundation — enabling more precise product and service decisions driven by empathy rather than assumption.

Approach
  • Life-size digital persona installations for stakeholder engagement
  • Experiential story-telling to illustrate customer segment behaviors
  • Clear, actionable user journey outputs for product teams
  • Research findings enabling data-driven product positioning
04
EY Wavespace — Ideation & Brainstorming
Executive Facilitation Workshop Design Innovation
$40B Acquisition

Facilitated executive brainstorming at EY's Wavespace Client Experience Center for the data amalgamation strategy behind S&P Global's $40 billion acquisition of IHS Markit — one of the largest data and analytics mergers in history.

Conducted design thinking workshops across global teams in London, Spain, and New York for Subject Matter Experts, Technologists, and C-Suite Executives to brainstorm the next phase of the Platts platform.

Workshop Scope
  • Global multi-city workshops: London, Madrid, New York
  • C-Suite + SME + Engineering cross-functional facilitation
  • Design thinking methodology for product vision alignment
  • Mindfulness-led Sprint retrospectives for team dynamics
  • Executive brainstorming for $40B IHS Markit integration
05
Morgan Stanley — Branch of the Future
Go-To-Market Customer Experience Video Production
Future State Vision

Conceptualized and produced a video showcasing a genius bar–style environment for financial advisors — a compelling future-state visualization of the Morgan Stanley branch experience reimagined for modern client expectations.

Delivered alongside interactive prototypes to bring the vision to life for executive stakeholders, bridging the gap between conceptual strategy and tangible, testable product direction.

Deliverables
  • Video production showcasing genius-bar branch environment concept
  • Interactive prototypes for future-state branch visualization
  • Compelling executive-ready stakeholder presentations
  • Go-To-Market strategy for customer experience transformation
06
EY Financial Crimes Platform
RegTech Platform Design Compliance FinCrime
$7.4B Market

Designed a modular, flexible FinCrime technology platform to help financial institutions meet regulatory obligations and achieve better compliance outcomes while reducing operational costs.

The platform addressed the estimated $7.4B addressable market in Financial Crimes compliance spend by the top 20 global banks — providing screening, transaction monitoring, and Know Your Customer (KYC) capabilities.

Platform Features
  • Population segmentation with distinct rule logic
  • Rule builder for targeting risk and inefficiencies
  • Data Tuning & Sampling: test/verify rule logic on specific populations
  • Automated scheduling for fraudulent activity filtering
  • Workforce Management Tool: performance metrics, due diligence, screening
  • Reduces false positives & prioritizes alert disposition
$7.4B
Addressable market based on top-20 bank compliance spend
Awards & Certifications
Platform Innovation Award
S&P Global
Inventor Award
S&P Global
Generative AI Business Strategy
Section Certified
Certified Strategist
Section
Product Management Certification
Pragmatic Institute
MFA, Honors Graduate in Design
Pratt Institute · 900 RYT Yoga Teacher

Let's build something remarkable

NYC-based. Available for strategic design and product leadership engagements.

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