Profile
I am a curious explorer at heart and a highly adaptable product designer.
Over the last 9+ years, my focus has been on building high-trust products for over a billion people.
At Microsoft, I navigate the deeply complex, shifting landscapes of Windows and Bing Health AI work that has led to
two patents and the "Windows Craft" quality framework. Beyond the screen, I constantly explore the edges of our industry
by mentoring designers, hosting India's #1 design podcast, and organizing Manifest, a free AI community conference.
Skills
Core Design & Prototyping
Product design, interaction & motion, design systems, information architecture, accessibility (WCAG), prototyping
User Research
User interviews, field research, journey mapping, usability testing, competitive analysis
AI & Emerging
Designing for generative AI & Copilot, AI trust & safety, human-in-the-loop answer systems
Leadership & Strategy
Cross-functional leadership, design strategy, storytelling, design mentoring, community building, workshop facilitation
Domains
Health & clinical UX, Windows / OS, search, ads & monetization, enterprise & fintech, edtech
Tools
Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, cloud-based productivity suites, AI prototyping systems
Experience
Product Designer 2 (L62) · Microsoft, AI & Windows
2021 to Present
Windows shell, sharing, files, Bing Health, expert platforms, Health AI and ads · Hyderabad, India
- Invented the Windows Drop Tray, a surface that appears the instant someone starts dragging a file, making move and share actions easier to discover. Shipped to retail and reached users globally, with cross device Share MAU up 3.8% week over week. Named inventor on the patent, a first for design in Windows in India.
- Designed for Windows sharing, phone, media, and device surfaces at 1B+ scale, including Windows Share, agentic experiences, Phone Link, Windows Hello, and AutoPlay; grounded the work in retail field research and shipped with zero accessibility defects.
- Authored the "Windows Craft" framework the org now uses to judge quality by whole journeys (copy a file, connect a device, and many more legacy surfaces on Windows) instead of isolated bugs; mapped ~85% of the craft backlog into journeys, live on surfaces spanning 122M+ monthly devices.
- Co-authored and named inventor on a second Microsoft patent for AI search results, and helped build Bing Health's Experts platform, making expert-authored answers feel trustworthy at a glance through authority signals, quality checks, and 500+ verified doctors across 15 countries, scaling from 100K to 1M+ answers.
- Reshaped Bing Health from a page of results into ongoing health journeys, including feeds, cards, and proactive CDC/FDA alerts that bring people back daily, while shaping health ads for +$2M Bing / +$500K MSN revenue targets without costing user trust.
UX Designer II · Temenos, Enterprise Banking
2020 to 2021
Core banking platform used by 3,000+ banks worldwide
- Redesigned the Banking Activity Hub, the screen used by 3,000+ banks to start the day, rebuilding its information architecture and navigation to lift ease of use 32% and cut decision time.
- Designed the Corporate Loan Suite, one coherent banker canvas for onboarding, entity overviews, loan requests, and facility tracking across the lifecycle of a large corporate loan.
Senior UX Designer · WongDoody
2019 to 2020
Global innovation studio · clients incl. XPO, Coca-Cola, P&G
- Designed Sell XPO, an AI driven freight quoting platform that let teams price, configure, and book a load on one screen, lifting cross sales 34% and booking efficiency 42%.
- Mapped production and procurement systems for Bimbo, Coca-Cola, and P&G, turning a five-tool, cross-role workflow into one service blueprint that reduced re-keying and cut order errors by ~30%.
Product Designer · Byju's
2017 to 2019
India's largest edtech platform
- Designed learning and productivity systems for millions of students across Tier 1 to 3 India, built for real budget phones, patchy networks, and classroom constraints.
- Created the Imaginarium worksheet series (including a Disney edition) for at home learning, and turned dense school math and science into clear, friendly visuals students could actually learn from.
- Built in-house platform tools for a 120-person content team to track work, improve productivity, and manage video production pipelines; output roughly doubled and goal-hit rate passed 40%.
Recognition
- Two patents, named inventor at Microsoft: the Windows "Drop Tray" drag and drop patent (a first for design in Windows in India) and an AI search results patent.
- Author of best-selling book, Nodes of Wisdom: An Amazon category best-seller distilling lessons from 100 global creative leaders across design, AI, AR/VR, and spatial computing.
- #1 design podcast host, Nodes of Design: Scaled to 100+ episodes across 60+ countries and ranked #1 on Apple Podcasts in 20 regions. Hosted conversations with design titans including Don Norman, Jakob Nielsen, and many more visionaries.
- Design speaker & educator: Delivered 30+ keynotes and masterclasses on AI driven design at global conferences and technical institutes, including IIT Hyderabad, IIT Jodhpur, IBM, UXDG Singapore, and Microsoft Design Week.
- ADPList Top 1% Mentor (9×): 800+ designers mentored across 10 countries; mentees now at Google, Microsoft, PhonePe, and BrowserStack.
- Community builder: Organized Manifest, a free AI community conference, and hosted 2,000+ people across conferences, connects, and practical workshops for product makers and builders.
Education
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering
GITAM University, Hyderabad, India
Majored in Automobile & Tool Design. Won the batch achiever's award and led inter‑university cultural and design initiatives. Building complex architectural models in CATIA, SolidWorks, and ANSYS sparked my initial passion for digital design and inspired my transition into the tech industry.