I am Jaya Hu
I specialize in human-centric design for B2B, data-analytics and AI✨ products
🔧 Handles complex and ambiguous problems
🔎 Proficient in research and data driven processes
🔬 Background in Psychology and Education
Checkout my work
My Work 💼
AI Study Support + Insight
0-1 Design
0-1 Design
Support learning with gen-AI powered personalized feedback and remedial content suggestion.
Data-analytics related projects
Multiple Projects: Redesign  • Strategic plan
Improved data access experience at Data Hub, integrated data tools at Course overview widgets, and facilitated a smooth transition to the new analytics portal at Insights Report Builder.
Online Highschool
SHIPPED
Redesign entire website • Rebrand
Revamped an online high school’s website, increased visit rate by 37.8% and contact rate by 15%
Meet Your Ideal Date
SHIPPED
0-1 Design •  Passion Project
Founding designer and team lead for a university student matchmaking platform. 80k users across 12 colleges, 3k successful relationships and 4+ marriages.
Academic Portfolio
SHIPPED
Led new feature design for Brightspace's Portfolio, empowering 150+ institutions to capture and display student learning evidence.
Design System: Color Indicator
SHIPPED
UI Design
Created new Design system component, improving visual hierarchy and navigation for deeply nested lists.
Comments about me 💬
“Jaya has consistently demonstrated her ability to work independently and handle complex tasks for medium sized projects... high performer with high potential, proactive team player with outstanding collaborative skills, lead by example...”
J. Leblennec
Senior Design Manager @D2L
“...She has great energy and really good ideas plus processes things thoroughly. I am grateful to have her in the team ❤️”
N. Deanne
Product Manager @D2L
“...I’ve been impressed with her tenacity overall, but she brought the right level of rigour to her investigation, sifted through all the contentions, broke down the problem well, and was super receptive to feedback - turned out with a great result...”
N. Hayne
Senior Designer @D2L
“It has been an absolute privilege working with Jaya on our most recent project for Data Hub. It is incredibly impressive how quickly she was able to and how much work she put in to get familiar with such a complicated space...”
K. Crook
UX Researcher @D2L
“... I hope there’s more designers like Jaya who takes the initiative to drive product direction...”
A. Wooster
Engineering Director @D2L
“It surprises me that Jaya works so quickly, yet she is able to produce very organized documentations. Working on a project that has a very tight timeline, her documents has helped us collaborate much more smoothly and efficiently...”
J. Lin
Design partner @ CA high