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Jai Dandekar

Design lead at PayPal. Adjunct faculty at University of Texas at Austin. Full time family man. Fried chicken enthusiast.




Case Studies


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Connected card studio

Reinventing how Visa presents connected experiences to their clients through an immersive, storytelling platform

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Setify, an eBay startup

An online collections platform which focuses the entire experience around the concept of collecting against an authentic set.

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Articles & Talks


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Storytelling by design

Good design presentations use storytelling to establish context, encourage user empathy, and up-level audience engagement

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The Big Design Conference

I gave a 20 minute talk on the need for storytelling in design presentations at The Big Design Conference 2018 in Dallas, TX.

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Other Work


PayPal project branding

Create a brand for the enterprise solutions team, which differentiated it from other teams, allowing for custom tshirts, stickers, and other swag.

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Visa Gives

A hackathon project, which leveraged kiosk technology to encourage employee donations and promote company donation matching.

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eBay patterns

The Design Systems Group at eBay promoted end-to-end sitewide consistency through a library of common components, patterns, and guidelines.

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