I am passionate about designing businesses and design teams, growing and empowering the next wave of design leaders, creating structures that enable design teams to be high- performing and impactful.

I am a seasoned and effective User Experience Strategist & Information Architect with solid strategic design thinking and creative problem-solving skills.

Work experience spans in Design Management & Leadership, Strategic Design Thinking, User Experience Design, and Information Architecture. Skills encompass communicating complex information through creating highly efficient user experiences, interfaces, and visualizations for dynamic web and mobile platforms based on quantitative and qualitative inputs from business and user needs using user research methods.

I have established a reputation for building innovative, easy and pleasurable to use products and applications for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Moody’s, UBS, Fannie Mae, Met Life, Fidelity, Publicis.Sapient, Microsoft, Cordys, BaaN ERP and numerous startups.

Specialties: Design Management, Design Leadership, Conceptualization, User Experience Design Strategy, Information Architecture, Design Thinking, Interaction Design, Build and Manage efficient UX teams, User Interface Design, User Research, Social Innovation, Design for Sustainable business strategy

Relentless commitment to business design strategy and social impact helped to serve at several startups and non- profit boards. One of the very firsts to bring User Experience Design to India.

Avid speaker, Founder President of UMO Design Foundation (www.umo.design). Founder & Executive producer of UXINDIA International Conference(www.ux-india.org) and InstillDesign – a not for profit organizations to create design awareness and make a positive difference in how we educate our next generation through strategic, technological and sustainable innovations.
An active member at UXPA Intl and IXDA.