Convoy
Convoy · General Motors
3 usability tests in a truck cab
Prototyping HVAC controls, prototyped in Figma and run on real screens. We tested in a 3D-printed truck cab. The details stay under NDA.
hi, i'm
- hi, i'm dhwani 👋
- product · ux · experience designer
- ms @ umich · graduating may 2027
- i design for people making decisions under pressure
- ann arbor based · open to moving anywhere ✈️
- open to work · let's build something →
experience
The set so far
Research, design, teaching, community — a few genre changes along the way.
Teaching, mentoring and helping students turn complicated ideas into work they can actually use.
want to play with this one?Working with Amazon through my graduate capstone across research, synthesis and product design.
want to play with this one?Building campus energy around a product I already loved using through events, community and culture.
want to play with this one?Creative programming, workshops, content and campus events for students.
want to play with this one?Designed and shipped product experiences across public-safety teams, including tools for dispatch and intelligence workflows.
want to play with this one?Designed and tested in-cab HVAC interactions on real screens inside a 3D-printed truck cab.
want to play with this one?
okay, now play with it
mix myexperience
Pick two chapters of my career. I’ll show you what carried from one into the other.
mix & match
Choose any two roles. The whole cards below are clickable.
No DJ knowledge needed, promise.
1click each big card to choose a role
2drag the slider toward whichever role you want more of
3watch the skill blend change
basically: two jobs go in, one slightly chaotic Dhwani comes out.try one
0150% influence
U-M School of Information
Graduate Student Instructor
Aug 2026 – now
drag me ↔
UMSI + Amazon, right down the middle
0250% influence
Amazon × UMSI Capstone
UX Research & Design
Aug 2026 – now
the blend
UMSI × Amazon → teaching, UX research, facilitation
Together, these experiences sharpened teaching, UX research, facilitation.
shared strengths
These roles bring different things to the table — which is kind of the fun part.
what each role added
- teaching01
- UX research02
- facilitation01
- product design02
- mentoring01
- synthesis02
- communication01
- product strategy02
- attention to detail01
- stakeholder communication02
now playing · 01
U-M School of Information
Graduate Student Instructor · Aug 2026 – now
Hover or open a role above and this little record follows along. Purely for the drama.
how this is madeDesigned in Figma and Framer, prototyped in Next.js, built with Claude and ChatGPT as pair-programmers. Made with Claude, edited by Dhwani, then edited again by Dhwani because apparently this is my hobby now.