# Abhinandan D. > Sr. UX Designer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/abhinandand Abhi is a passionate ‘User Experience Design' professional, M.Des. in Industrial Design from IIT Delhi, and has 23+ years of seasoned design practice for user-centered design and management. Leads by example with hands-on execution for complete UX process and management with agile /scrum methods. • Followed a result-driven approach with excellent creative problem-solving skills and design thinking for innovative solutions to grow the business by measuring success and aligning KPIs to design objectives for translating vision into UX roadmap. • Built multidisciplinary design teams from the ground up to deliver excellent quality design solutions across multiple platforms and domains. Motivated 10-member, multi-disciplined team by challenging them to innovate and ‘make it work’ with cross-collaboration team work methods. • His approach is focused on the user-centered design process, design thinking methods and creative problem-solving to deliver cutting-edge design solutions. • He has mastered the UX design process through user interviews, contextual studies, user surveys, heuristic evaluation, usability analysis, user journey maps, persona development, market research, building information architecture- taxonomy, task flow models, sketching detailed wireframe designs, UI design, ADA compliance, Visual design style guide creation, hi-fidelity prototyping, and usability testing. • He is well trained in agile methods like SAFe as Scrum Master and has strong hands-on design skills with tools like Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, InVision Studio, Adobe Photoshop, MS PowerPoint, Keynote, Draw.io, Lucid Chart, NVidia UI composer for 3D UI, Alias and Rhinoceros 3D. • He has enjoyed learning on the job across domains like mobile, tablet, web, IPTV, internet of things, wearable devices, Augmented reality, medical devices, automotive UI, in-vehicle experience, enterprise portals, marketing-sales-services support tools, car styling, and consumer product design. • He believes in Design follows the desires of the user and a successful user means a successful business. • He is self-motivated and follows a result-driven approach within given constraints of time and resources, with excellent creative problem-solving skills demonstrated at a variety of clients like Toyota USA/Europe, Harley Davidson, Boeing, Becton Dickinson, Comcast, World Bank, eBay, Apple, Autodesk, Cisco, Gilead, and Groupon. Specialties: User research, system concept design, interaction design, UI design and visual design detailing, prototyping and project management, creative problem-solving. ## Work Experience ### Senior User Experience Designer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2022 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States ### Manager- UX design @ Cisco Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Jose, California, United States • Cisco’s sales organization wanted to strengthen their relationship with their sales partners across the globe by digitizing their partner relationship platforms using the salesforce platform’s custom enabled tools. I played the role of Lead user experience consultant to drive UX solution delivery with the team. •We delivered personas, user research reports, task flows, interactive prototypes, and final visual design in Figma for developers to use. Figma being an excellent collaborative design tool, it helped us fast track the iterations as teamwork and establish a process for such challenges to deliver delightful quality. ### Experience Director- UX Design @ Cognizant Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 Managing team of UX designers in various projects using strong hands on skills and leading by example. ### Sr. Product Designer @ Groupon Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, California, United States ### User Experience Manager @ Gilead Sciences Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Foster City, California, United States Abhi was instrumental in getting this project for Cognizant for next phase and managed design project for creating modular template for common enterprise platform for its user to access needed content quickly from 3 different platforms like salesforce, sharepoint and mobile. The main challenge- user was not able to figure out where to find the needed information quickly, after being exposed to multiple enterprise platforms. Abhi solved this challenge by doing initial content analysis to design information architecture and taxonomy for various use cases and its content. He used card sorting and stakeholder discussions to create effective IA for whole platform and delivered modular design templates which can be used by Gilead IT for any future design and development of their webpages. The design strategy solution saved dollars needed for every new portal that may be needed for Gilead IT. ### User Experience Manager @ Cisco Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, California, United States In this engagement,Abhi played multiple roles like User researcher, UX designer, Project manager and Scrum master. Cisco gave him opportunity to establish and lead, team of designers and researchers to deliver varied types of UX deliverables like user research reports, UX metrics to measure effectiveness of multiple enterprise platforms, UX design solutions through interactive prototypes, task flow models to analyse the design through team collaborations, persona and user journey maps to validate design solutions, usability testing and reports to ensure quality of design solutions are meeting the user needs. This engagement gave him learning opportunity to lead as product designer for business and deliver design solutions for: marketing-sales support tools, web services for enterprise users, enterprize servicenow platform, device enabled network tools and service support tools. ### User Experience Consultant @ J.P. Morgan Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Fremont, California, United States Abhi worked as a design consultant for tablet application design, targeted for elite (privileged) customers of JPMC for application and processing of various types of loans. Abhi worked with top executives of the JPMC loan processing division to understand the requirements from the business and provided the solution in motion design format of the prototype as expected by marketing leads of JPMC. This was a quick PoC type of project where Abhi worked with a team of Business analysts, front-end developers, and testers in a highly agile way of delivery method to ensure the client gets the design to impress the pilot batch of customers. ### Senior User Experience Consultant @ Apple Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Abhi provided strategic guidance and established initial template for UX design of web services management platform for apple developers. Delivered UX design through wireframes and visual design and then established guidance for team to deliver whole project in next phase. ### Senior User Experience Consultant @ Autodesk Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Rafael, California, United States Abhi worked as design UX design consultant for marketing IT support team. Challenge was to provide easy and simple experiences for sales professionals for creating , controlling and monitoring of reports in one single platform, so that users do not need to combine content from various platform to create reports. Design solution was created in one single enterprise portal where user can see a dashboard of reports and quickly achieve the goal of creation of report in 3 steps and later retrieve it whenever needed for forecasting and auditing. ### Senior User Experience Consultant @ KLA-TENCOR LIMITED Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Milpitas, California, United States Abhi worked for short duration to conduct usability analysis of enterprise platform of support tools for service engineers and provided best feasible design recommendations for new technology framework of PHP. ### Senior User Experience Consultant @ eBay for Business Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, California, United States Abhi provided design solution and strategic guidance to establish design process for B2B buy-sell platform. He designed initial key user journeys and delivered wireframes and visual design to establish style guide for whole platform. He validated designs by doing usability testing sessions with partner's team members and recommended next phase design improvement specifications. ### User Experience Manager @ The World Bank Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States Abhi managed and led the team of designers by demonstrating best of design practices at onsite and ensured quality delivery of UX design deliverables like interaction design, visual design and usability analysis reports for web and mobile platforms for various enterprise applications for World bank employees and partners across the globe. ### Group Manager- Human Factors Design Group @ Infosys Jan 2008 – Jan 2015 Conceptualization of product system design, user research for persona, user journeys and interaction specification, develop Information Architecture, build navigation models, detailed wire frames with annotations and Visual design artifacts creation. Ensure quality of design through documentation and style guide creations. Application Platforms worked: HTML5, Android, iOS, Windows (WPF), mobile and tablet devices, NVidia UI composer ( 3D HMI), Altia, embedded systems and Digital IPTV-XRE, WebRTC technology. Worked on a cloud connected UI design and collaborative simultaneous multi-user experience design project. Consumer product styling design and its touch based UI control design on embedded platform. Automotive styling design for SUV and in vehicle experience (HMI) design. ### Manger- Industrial Design @ Force Motors Ltd,Pune Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Regular activities under design management and leading the user research / bench marking, styling concept design, ergonomic studies for car interior interaction framework design, CAD modeling, mock up modeling and real functional prototyping. ### Assistant Manger- Industrial Design @ Ashok Leyland Ltd, Chennai Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 Regular activities of styling design for truck interior , exterior. Interaction design modeling for truck console and navigation controls. Demonstration of designs using mock up modeling and prototyping. ### Product Experience Designer @ Toyota, India Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 Product Planning, Benchmarking,User study and Styling Design for luxury cars and MUV platform products and its variants. Project management support for large projects and lead the small projects using scrum methods. ### Freelance Designer @ Sign Design,Pune Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 Freelance designer with Design consultancy projects. ## Education ### M.Des. in Industrial Design Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi ### B.E. in Mechanical Engineering Shivaji University ### HSC in Science KWC, Sangli ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhi-design --- Source: https://flows.cv/abhinandand JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/abhinandand/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13