Portfolio · 2026
Turning complexity into clarity.
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Available for senior UX & design leadership roles

I design systems that help businesses grow.

Hello, I'm Pratik. A Lead UX Designer who turns product complexity into clarity — through strategy, design systems, and enterprise UX that move real business metrics.

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The way I see product
Users see the interface.
Teams see the roadmap.
Engineers see the architecture.
Executives see the metrics.
I see how all of them connect.
Interface
Roadmap
Architecture
Metrics
Systems Thinking
Business impact, not just interfaces

Design that shows up
on the balance sheet.

I measure design in outcomes leadership cares about — revenue unlocked, hours saved, adoption earned, and teams levelled up.

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Years designing across craft, product & leadership
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Faster review cycles after workflow redesigns
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Reusable components shipped in design systems
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Hours/year saved through automation & IA
My story

Six disciplines.
One way of thinking.

I didn't arrive at UX in a straight line. I arrived through craft — and every craft left a lens I still design with today.

01
Photography

Composition

Taught me to remove everything that doesn't serve the frame. In products, that's ruthless prioritisation and visual hierarchy.

02
Calligraphy

Precision

Every stroke is intentional and repeatable. That discipline became design tokens, spacing systems, and pixel-level rigour.

03
Painting

Creativity

Learning when to break the rules. The confidence to propose the non-obvious direction when the data leaves room for judgement.

04
UX

Empathy

Designing for the person on the other side of the screen — their context, constraints, and the job they're actually trying to do.

05
Leadership

Influence

Craft doesn't scale alone. Mentoring, critique, and stakeholder trust turn one designer's taste into a team's standard.

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Product Thinking

Business

Understanding the model behind the product — so design decisions ladder up to strategy, revenue, and retention.

The evolution

From pixels to product strategy.

2011 — 2014

Visual & Graphic Design

Began in typography, advertisement, and motion graphics — building the eye for craft, brand, and detail that still anchors everything I ship.

2014 — 2017

Into Digital & UX

Moved from static artwork to interfaces. Learned research, information architecture, and the discipline of designing for behaviour, not just beauty.

2017 — 2021

Product & Enterprise UX

Owned complex B2B SaaS and enterprise workflows end-to-end — discovery, prototyping, testing, and shipping tools that thousands rely on daily.

2021 — 2024

Design Systems & Ops

Built and governed scalable design systems, established design operations, and turned inconsistent products into a coherent, efficient platform.

2024 — Now

UX Leadership

Leading design strategy — mentoring designers, partnering with product and engineering leadership, and shaping roadmaps with measurable outcomes.

Selected work

Case studies that start
with a business problem.

Not a UI gallery. Each project traces the path from an executive's problem to a shipped, measured outcome.

Design systems

One system.
Every team moves faster.

I treat design systems as products — with tokens, governance, versioning, and a contribution model that engineering actually adopts.

🎨 Tokens & Color

Semantic tokens that map brand to theme, dark & light, and accessibility states — a single source of truth from Figma to code.

📐 Spacing & Grid

space-14px
space-28px
space-416px
space-832px

🔤 Typography

DisplayHeadingBody · readable · editorial

🧩 Components & Variants

200+ documented components with states, variants, and usage guidelines — versioned and released like software.

♿ Accessibility

WCAG AA baked in: contrast, focus, keyboard nav, and screen-reader semantics validated per component, not bolted on later.

⚙️ Governance & Ops

Contribution model, review board, changelog, and adoption metrics — so the system stays alive as the org scales.

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Leadership

I make the team
better than my best day.

Leadership is a craft too. It's how one designer's judgement becomes a team's standard — and how design earns a seat where strategy is decided.

🌱

Mentoring & Growth

Coaching designers from execution to strategic thinking through structured feedback and career paths.

🎯

Hiring & Team Building

Defining rubrics, running portfolio reviews, and building diverse, high-trust teams.

🗣️

Design Critique

Facilitating critique that raises the bar without crushing momentum or ownership.

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Stakeholder Management

Translating design decisions into the language of product, engineering, and the C-suite.

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Vision & Strategy

Setting a north star and connecting quarterly roadmaps to long-term design direction.

📊

Executive Communication

Presenting to leadership with clarity — outcomes, trade-offs, and business impact first.

🔗

Product Partnership

Embedding design in product discovery so the right thing gets built, not just built right.

Cross-functional Delivery

Aligning design, PM, and engineering around shared goals and shipping cadence.

How I work

A process built for ambiguity.

01

Frame

Define the real problem, the business goal, and who's affected before touching pixels.

02

Discover

Research, interviews, data, and stakeholder mapping to surface the true constraints.

03

Design

Wireframes, flows, and system-driven UI — iterating fast, deciding with evidence.

04

Validate

Prototypes and usability testing to de-risk before engineering invests.

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Measure

Ship, instrument, and learn — closing the loop on the metric we set out to move.

Capabilities

The full stack of design.

Product StrategyUX DesignDesign SystemsEnterprise ProductsB2B SaaSE-commerceAI-Assisted Design Product StrategyUX DesignDesign SystemsEnterprise ProductsB2B SaaSE-commerceAI-Assisted Design
Design OperationsUser ResearchInformation ArchitectureAccessibilityDesign LeadershipProduct Thinking Design OperationsUser ResearchInformation ArchitectureAccessibilityDesign LeadershipProduct Thinking
What people say

Trusted across the org chart.

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Pratik doesn't just design screens — he reframes the problem so the whole team suddenly sees the path. He raised the bar for our entire product org.

VP
VP of Product
Enterprise SaaS
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The design system he built cut our delivery time dramatically and finally got engineering and design speaking the same language. Rare systems thinker.

EM
Engineering Manager
Platform Team
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As a mentor he's transformational. He pushed me to think about business impact, not just craft — and it changed how I approach every project.

PD
Product Designer
Mentee

Representative quotes — real references available on request.

Beyond design

The craft behind the craft.

The disciplines I practise for their own sake keep my eye sharp and my thinking original. They're not a hobby footnote — they're where my design instincts were forged.

Photography

Composition & light

Framing, negative space, and knowing what to leave out.

Calligraphy

Discipline of the stroke

Rhythm, consistency, intentional detail.

Painting

Colour & courage

Knowing when to break the grid.

Sketching & experiments

Thinking with my hands

Fast ideation before fidelity — where every product starts.

Writing

Thinking out loud.

Designing for the balance sheet: making UX legible to executives

Essay · Design Leadership · 8 min

Design systems are products — treat governance like a roadmap

Essay · Design Systems · 6 min

From craft to influence: what 15 years taught me about leading design

Essay · Leadership · 10 min

AI-assisted design: where judgement still beats the model

Essay · AI & Design · 7 min
Let's talk

Let's build something
meaningful together.

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