Annual Performance Review

Anindita Chowdhury

Principal Product Designer · Vantage Circle

Designing intuitive, scalable experiences across Vantage Perks and Vantage Fit — bridging product thinking, design systems, and AI to drive measurable impact.

Experience Page Merchandise Featured Brands Workforce Health Cashback Listing

Year at a Glance

A snapshot of the products, platforms, and design initiatives I owned and contributed to this year.

3

Platforms (Web, Android, iOS)

2

Products Owned

50+

Features Shipped

Products I Have Worked On

The products I owned and contributed to this year across web, Android, and iOS platforms.

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Vantage Perks

End-to-end design ownership for the corporate perks and discounts platform across web, Android, and iOS.

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Vantage Fit

Led redesign and new feature design for the employee wellness and fitness platform on all platforms.

What I Drove This Year

Work reframed as themes of impact — the design decisions that shaped products, improved experiences, and moved metrics.

01

Platform Experience Transformation

Led end-to-end redesign of key user journeys across Vantage Perks (web + mobile), including experience pages, merchandise, classifieds, and offer flows — creating a more intuitive, consistent, and scalable user experience.

Redesign

02

Engagement & Conversion Optimization

Enhanced user engagement through features like featured brands, cashback listings, Shop & Earn, and contextual reminders, while simplifying critical flows such as redemption checkout and order history to reduce friction.

Conversion

03

Mobile-First Experience Enhancement

Redesigned core mobile experiences across Vantage Perks and Vantage Fit, improving usability across listing, detail, and interaction flows, aligned with mobile user behavior.

Mobile

04

Product Innovation & New Capabilities

Contributed to new feature development including AI Health Coach, League systems, bite-sized content, and automated engagement features — expanding product capabilities and user value.

Innovation

05

AI-Driven Design Evolution

Explored and integrated AI tools into design workflows, leveraging them for faster ideation, content generation, and scalable creative outputs.

AI

What I Shipped

A visual walkthrough of the features and experiences I designed across Vantage Perks and Vantage Fit this year.

Vantage Perks — Web

Experience Page Redesign

Experience Page Redesign

End-to-end redesign of the core experience page

Core Redesign
Merchandise - Overview Merchandise - Product View Merchandise - Brand Store

Merchandise Web Redesign

Revamped product listing and purchase flow

Core Redesign
Classifieds - History 1 Classifieds - History 2 Classifieds - History 3 Classifieds - History 4 Classifieds - History 5 Classifieds - History 6 Classifieds - Pending 1 Classifieds - Pending 2 Classifieds - Pending 3

Classifieds Redesign

User + Admin interface overhaul

Core Redesign
Featured Brands - View 1 Featured Brands - View 2 Featured Brands - View 3 Featured Brands - View 4 Featured Brands - View 5

Featured Brands

Highlighted brand discovery section

Feature
Cashback Brand Listing - View 1 Cashback Brand Listing - View 2

Cashback Brand Listing

Cashback-focused brand browsing

Feature
Shop & Earn - View 1 Shop & Earn - View 2 Shop & Earn - Share 1 Shop & Earn - Share 2 Shop & Earn - Share 3

Shop & Earn

Cashback shopping experience

Feature
Redemption Checkout

Redemption Checkout

Simplified redemption popup flow

UX
Experience Popup Reminder Notification Reminder Popup - US Reminder Popup - India Perks Experience 1 Perks Experience 2 Perks Experience 3

Reminder Pop-ups

Contextual reminders for feature discovery

UX
Order History - Overview Order History - Activity Order History - Car Rental Order History - Stay

Order History

Switch Fly order tracking redesign

UX
Weekly Emailer Redesign

Weekly Emailer Redesign

Refreshed weekly engagement emailer

Communication
Classified Email Classified Email 2 Email Footer Design Email Footer Variant Perks Experience

More Work

Misc design work and other deliverables

Misc

Vantage Perks — Mobile (Android & iOS)

Home Screen

Home Screen

Redesigned mobile home experience

Redesign
Listing - Brands Listing - Category

Listing Pages

Redesigned brand and category listings

Redesign
Cashback Detail - First Fold Cashback Detail - Full Exclusive Detail - First Fold Exclusive Detail - Full

Detail Pages

Cashback and exclusive offer detail views

Redesign
Get Offer Flow

Get Offer / Coupon Flows

Streamlined offer redemption journey

Redesign
Merchandise

Merchandise

Mobile merchandise browsing and purchase

Redesign

Vantage Fit — Mobile (Android & iOS)

Personal Training - View 1 Personal Training - View 2 Personal Training - View 3 Personal Training - Prompt Personal Training - Repeat Personal Training - Start

Personal Training Plans

Custom workout and wellness plans

New Feature
Bite-Sized Content 1 Bite-Sized Content 2 Bite-Sized Content 3 Bite-Sized Content 4 Bite-Sized Content 5

Bite-Sized Content

Quick wellness tips and micro-content pages

New Feature
AI Health Coach - New Report AI Health Coach - Test 2 AI Health Coach - Test 3 AI Health Coach - Detail AI Health Coach - Test Result AI Health Coach - Chat 1 AI Health Coach - Chat 2 AI Health Coach - View 3 AI Health Coach - View 4

AI Health Coach

AI assistant with report upload support

New Feature
Auto Winner Announcement

Auto Winner Announcement

Automated winner posts on activity feed

New Feature
Content as Task - Health Articles Content as Task - Articles 2 Content as Task - Articles 3 Content as Task - Articles 4 Content as Task - Feed Post Content as Task - Exercise Details

Content as Task

Health articles and content-driven tasks

New Feature

Vantage Fit — Dashboard (Web)

Workforce Health Data 1 Workforce Health Data 2 Workforce Health - Lab Test

Workforce Health Visualization

Data-driven health insights dashboard

Dashboard
League Overview 1 League Overview 2 League Report 1 League Report 2

League Management

Admin tools for league setup and tracking

Dashboard
Target Audience - Overview Target Audience - Detail Custom Create

Unified Target Audience

Audience setup for challenges and campaigns

Dashboard

How I Used AI

Leveraging AI tools to accelerate design workflows, explore ideas faster, and push creative boundaries.

✍️

Rapid Prototyping

Used AI-powered tools for generating layout variations and visual concepts, cutting exploration time significantly during early design phases.

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UX Writing & Content

Leveraged AI for generating microcopy, onboarding flows, and error message variations, iterating on tone and clarity faster than ever.

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Design-to-Code

Experimented with AI tools to bridge design and engineering, generating component code from design specs to streamline handoff.

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Ideation & Research

Used AI for competitive analysis summaries, user persona generation, and brainstorming feature concepts during discovery phases.

Growth Through Friction

The obstacles I faced and the insights I gained that shaped my design approach this year.

Challenge

Cross-Platform Parity

Maintaining design consistency across web, Android, and iOS while respecting each platform's native conventions required constant balancing.

Learning

Design System Adoption

Learned that a design system is only as good as its adoption. Focused on building trust with engineers through clear documentation and pairing sessions.

Challenge

Stakeholder Alignment

Navigating competing priorities between product, engineering, and business teams while keeping user experience at the center of decisions.

Learning

AI as a Design Partner

Discovered that AI tools work best as accelerators, not replacements. The key is knowing when to use AI and when craft demands a human hand.

Challenge

Scaling Design Quality

As feature velocity increased, maintaining high design quality across all deliverables demanded better processes and prioritization frameworks.

Learning

Measuring Design Impact

Moved toward data-informed design decisions by partnering with analytics to define and track UX metrics tied to business outcomes.

Future Goals

Where I'm heading next — deepening design expertise, embracing AI, and evolving toward a design-engineer mindset.

Design Leadership

Scale the Design System Across Products

Achieve full component coverage, drive adoption across all teams, and establish the design system as the single source of truth for Vantage Circle products.

AI & Innovation

Deepen AI Integration in Design Workflows

Explore advanced AI tools for user research synthesis, automated usability testing, and generative design exploration at scale.

Design Engineering

Bridge the Design-Code Gap

Build front-end prototyping skills to create production-ready components, reducing handoff friction and enabling faster iteration cycles.

Impact

Data-Driven Design Decisions

Establish a framework for measuring design impact through defined UX metrics, A/B testing, and closer collaboration with product analytics.

Growth

Mentor & Elevate the Design Culture

Mentor junior designers, conduct design critiques, and champion design thinking practices across the organization.