Nimisha Vijay

Nimisha Vijay is a User Experience Designer at Nextcloud, where she works with the open-source community to build a more intuitive and kinder internet. A graduate of PES University with a background in engineering, she specializes in human-centered design, user research, and creating design systems.

Based in Berkeley, she is passionate about the intersection of technology and society, focusing on ethical and democratic software. She is a core member of the Open Source Design community, where she organizes events, speaks about design contributions, and coaches social impact projects at Superbloom.

She has co-authored research on the role of designers in open-source projects and has had a paper on privacy and cybersecurity published at a top security conference.