I’m Shreya, a Lead Mixed Methods UX Researcher.
I’ve led research at JPMorgan, Unity, Peloton, and Google (through AnswerLab).
Most recently, I built and piloted my team’s rapid research workflows and agentic AI programs to keep up with fast-emerging methods. Having worked across industries and labs with very different problem spaces, I thrive at turning ambiguous needs and shifting priorities into actionable research plans. Teams make confident decisions because I influence with an evidence-based approach and triangulation across sources partners already trust: data, product, design, and engineering. I built a habit of seeking generalizable principles from my quantitative research that can be applied beyond one study from my background is in behavioral science (UChicago & UC Davis).
In a past life, I studied primates 🦧 (technically, I still do).
01 / Work
Project snapshots
This portfolio highlights confidentiality-safe summaries of work.
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Fig. 01 · Agentic AI
Agentic AI Workflow
Connecting research to content design with AI agents
- Challenge
- Research findings reached content designers slowly and unevenly, often after copy decisions were already made.
- Approach
- I piloted an agentic AI workflow that brought relevant research findings into content design as copy was drafted and reviewed, with researchers checking the agents’ output.
- Impact
- Content decisions drew on research by default, and the pilot showed the team where agents help and where people still need to review.
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Fig. 02 · Prioritization
Data-backed MVP
Feature prioritization with MaxDiff and conjoint
- Challenge
- With limited engineering bandwidth for the year, the team needed to know which features delivered the most user value.
- Approach
- I designed a quantitative MaxDiff study to measure feature importance, followed by a conjoint where participants could choose “no preference” to test how strongly the features really differed.
- Impact
- A clear, data-driven prioritization model that guided roadmap decisions and aligned stakeholders on where to invest.
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Fig. 03 · Benchmarking
Usability Benchmarking
Impact measurement with usability benchmarking
- Challenge
- Redesigning a complex product without standard success metrics like conversion or revenue, and with limited access to user data.
- Approach
- A mixed methods usability benchmark, combining qualitative insight (friction, mental models) with quantitative metrics (time on task, errors, SUS score).
- Impact
- A clear, measurable framework for product success, and a culture of data-driven decisions on the team.
- 250users surveyed
- 5fewer clicks on average
- 12%increase in satisfaction
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Fig. 04 · Segmentation
User Segmentation
Data-backed personas through user segmentation
- Challenge
- Teams across the org had each built their own personas, with no single source of truth and little data behind them.
- Approach
- A large-scale survey pairing profiling questions with behavioral questions, analyzed to find segments that matter for the product.
- Impact
- Five data-backed segments replaced 13 overlapping personas, giving teams across the org one source of truth to plan and design from.
- 380users surveyed
- 5user segments
- 13redundant personas removed
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Fig. 05 · Rapid research
Workflow Creation
Building a rapid research program
- Challenge
- Product teams were moving faster than traditional research timelines, so decisions were often made before research could weigh in.
- Approach
- I built a rapid research program at JPMorgan: a standard intake for requests and short-turnaround studies sized to each decision, so teams could get answers within their planning cycles.
- Impact
- Research became part of fast-moving decisions instead of arriving after them, and teams came to research earlier with their questions.
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Fig. 06 · Methods mentorship
Quant Mentorship
Raising the team’s method choices with MaxDiff and conjoint
- Challenge
- Researchers defaulted to general surveys, even for trade-off and prioritization questions that surveys answer poorly.
- Approach
- I mentored researchers on MaxDiff and conjoint principles, including when each method fits and how to read the results.
- Impact
- The team reached for more targeted methods whenever applicable, and prioritization questions got clearer, more defensible answers.
02 / Approach
Mixed methods approach
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Mixed methods designs
Triangulation Combining studies, usage data, and what product, design, and engineering already know
- Quant → Qual
Explanatory sequential
- Qual → Quant
Exploratory sequential
- Quant + Qual
Convergent
- Qual inside Quant
Embedded
- Repeated cycles
Multiphase
- Quant → Qual
03 / Away from the desk
Away from the desk
An eclectic, ever-changing set of interests that keeps my mind sharp and full of wonder.
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Photo: a dish or an old cookbook
01Food history
Tracing the trade routes behind a dish, poring over the ancient texts that recorded it, and then trying it myself.
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Photo: you at the harp
02Pulling strings
A magical, forgiving instrument you can learn as an adult without upsetting your neighbors.
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Photo: a bird you spotted
03Field notes
Birding, growing my life list, and getting vicariously excited about a bird I'd never heard of, just because everyone else is.
04 / Contact
Bring me the question you can’t answer yet.
I’m looking for my next research leadership role.
shreysearcher@gmail.com