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At Ford Motor Company, I've spent the last 5+ years designing native Android Automotive experiences for Lincoln Navigator, Ford Explorer, Ford Expedition and Lincoln Nautilus. I lead end-to-end design for complex features like voice assistants, vehicle controls, software updates, in-vehicle entertainment all shipped to millions of drivers. Right now, I'm spearheading discovery and design for Towing and Trailering Education, a multi-part problem space that touches onboarding, settings, brake helper, and send-to-phone flows.
I've been a significant contributor to the design system that scales across 20+ product teams at Ford, structured Figma with variables, tokens, and auto-layout patterns that reduced inconsistency by 40% and accelerated dev cycles. I'm deeply invested in Material 3 and Apple HIG conventions, and I've embedded AI-assisted workflows (Claude, Cursor, Figma Make) into how I prototype and document work.
Before Ford, I designed UX for smart gardening dashboards at Laboratory for Playful Computation and led branding and web design for 20+ startups at firehearts.co. I also have a Master's in Computer Science from CU Boulder, which grounds my work in both design and technical thinking.
Outside of work, I'm building personal projects that explore how humans tell stories in an AI-driven world: Crafting Scholars (a tutoring platform in Framer), Floww (an AI-assisted speed-reading app), and slate (an open source movie/tv-shows watchlist on Next.js).
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Personal goals
Start making house music on the weekends
Create a tshirt label
Be more active
Build a portfolio website.
Make digital art daily
Start working on weekend builds.
Have fun
Master design systems at enterprise scale (variables, tokens, Code Connect)

Nishank Sharma
Senior Product Designer
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