Bringing business, technology, and user needs together to shape the right product direction.
Connecting strategy with design craft, making sure high-level thinking translates into meaningful product experiences.
Building a strong design culture, making good design everyone's goal, not just design team's.
Creating a safe yet challenging environment for the design teams
Being adaptive in processes and frameworks so that they fit contextually fit to the problem at hand
Co-working with the cross functional teams, promoting design thinking and influencing stakeholders
February 2026 - Present
Independent Consultant
Multiple
August 2023 - January 2026
Principal Designer
Koko Networks Private Limited, Pune
February 2022 - August 2023
Senior UX Design Manager
Vodafone Intellignet Solutions, Pune
April 2016 - February 2022
UX Design Manager
Secure Meters Limited, Udaipur
April 2014 - April 2016
Lead Designer
Saint Gobain Research India, Chennai
December 2007 - March 2014
Lead - User Research and Design
Onio Design Private Limited, Pune
With a foundation in formal design education and a research-driven approach, I work at the intersection of insight, strategy, and craft. Over the years, I have evolved from an individual contributor to building and leading design teams, scaling design systems, and strengthening design maturity within organizations, while continuing to stay hands-on where it matters.
My strength lies in connecting strategic intent to tangible outcomes. I work closely with leadership to shape direction and with design teams to translate that direction into thoughtful, high-quality experiences across digital, physical, and service touchpoints.
I have worked across service design, enterprise platforms, IoT and smart systems, e-commerce ecosystems, research and trend strategy, and brand-led experience frameworks.
Some of the areas and projects I have worked on include:
Service design for end-to-end customer experiences in electrical power utilities and community heat services
Large-scale enterprise energy management platforms for state load dispatch centers, generating companies, and distribution companies
Customer lifecycle frameworks and journey mapping
B2B and B2C e-commerce platforms and mobile applications
Data acquisition a for smart meters
IoT product design for smart homes and consumer markets
Vodafone UK website redesign
Data monitoring and maintenance systems
Brand-led design principles, belief systems, and design systems
E-commerce content and learning ecosystems
User research, trend forecasting, and future strategy development
Customer experience strategy
CMF and Trends
Established and scaled user-centered design practices across two organizations, embedding design into product strategy and business decision-making.
Positioned design as a direct driver of business outcomes, improving product-market fit, adoption, and delivery against key objectives.
Defined and implemented a unified design philosophy and system spanning products, services, branding, and cross-channel touchpoints.
Led the design of 30+ digital and physical products, translating research and strategy into successful market launches.
Drove end-to-end experience thinking across digital platforms, physical products, and service ecosystems, extending design beyond the interface layer.
Initiated new business capabilities and strengthened organizational design maturity through workshops, playbooks, and cross-functional collaboration.
Secured global design patents and industrial design registrations, contributing to long-term intellectual property value.
Product & Platform UX Strategy
Systems & Service Design
Design Leadership & Team Development
Cross-Functional Collaboration
User Research & Insights
Design Systems & Governance
Experimentation & Data-Driven Design
Enterprise & B2B Platform Design
User experience design
User research
Design Operations
Design strategy
Design Thinking
Usability
Service maps
Process flows
Customer journeys
Experience maps
User flows
Task flows
Information architecture
UI design
Figma
AI
Workshop facilitation and design sprints
Visual design
Adobe design suite
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