Ujjwal Verma Lead UX Designer
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I design systems that reduce friction at enterprise scale.

Hi, I'm Ujjwal Verma. Over the last 4.8 years at HashedIn by Deloitte (and 11+ years total in design), I've focused on the messy, high-stakes parts of enterprise tech: autonomous AI agents that operators were terrified to trigger, clinical trial safety analytics where a misplaced filter could hide an adverse event, and multi-cloud tools for teams burning $180k/month on untagged infrastructure.

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Scannable Executive Summary

Target Level

Lead / Staff UX Designer

11.4y Total • 4.8y at Deloitte

Core Focus

Frontier AI & Enterprise

Agent governance, BioPharma, FinOps

Differentiator

Codes Working Prototypes

HTML/CSS/JS • 0 handoff drift

Verified Honors

Top Impactor + 5x Excellence

3x Pod of Quarter • 1st Hackathon

Total Experience

11.4 Years

4y 9m at HashedIn / Deloitte

Formal Recognitions

9 Honors

Top Impactor, 5x Excellence

Enterprise Releases

5 Major

Clinical Trial IRMS R1 → R4.0

Clinical Velocity

~40% Faster

Clinical Trial Risk Reviews

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Why Me • Working Philosophy

What you actually get when you hire me

Most portfolios show pristine, frictionless mockups. But real software is messy. Here is how I actually operate inside cross-functional product and engineering teams:

1. Frontier AI & Agentic UX (Beyond the Chatbox)

Everyone is wrapping LLMs in generic chat bubbles. But in real enterprise workflows, users don't need another chatbot—they need to trust what the model is doing before hitting 'Run'. I design calibrated confidence indicators, explicit human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and multi-session workspaces so operators can supervise autonomous agents without blind fear.

✓ Multi-agent governance UX

✓ Claude Foundation Certified

2. I genuinely enjoy ugly, complex enterprise systems

Give me dense data tables, strict regulatory FDA constraints, or legacy platforms where other designers get overwhelmed. When I stepped into our Fortune 50 BioPharma engagement, the BI dashboards were so broken that floating filter panels literally covered patient safety graphs. I rebuilt the interaction shell from scratch, stayed through 5 major production releases, and cut clinical triage times by ~40%.

✓ 5 Major releases shipped for BioPharma

✓ Direct client leadership commendations

3. Strong developer empathy (because I write code)

I don't toss Figma mockups over the fence and cross my fingers. When an interaction is tricky—like synchronized legacy-to-Java code diffing—I write working HTML/CSS/JS prototypes to test it with engineers first. I build shared Data Dictionaries with back-end leads and sync Figma Variables to code tokens. Sprints run smoother, with a 50% reduction in post-handoff rework.

✓ Zero styling discrepancies in dev handoff

✓ 50% reduction in revision cycles

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"Great work Ujjwal!"

Direct commendation from Global Client Leadership upon receiving the redesigned Clinical Risk Report 9.

Verified Client Commendation

Real Production Work

5 Things I Built That Actually Shipped

No hypothetical redesigns or Dribbble concepts. Here are 5 flagship enterprise systems I led from problem to production at HashedIn by Deloitte, complete with honest retrospective notes on what worked and what we learned.

5 Flagship Case Studies
FRONTIER AI & DECISION UX Sep 2025 – Feb 2026
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Human-AI Exchange Platform — Building Trust in Autonomous Multi-Agent Workflows

Our engineering team built impressive multi-agent clusters capable of executing complex background operations. But business operators refused to click 'Run' because they had no idea why an agent made a decision or what could go wrong. I led the UX strategy to replace raw machine learning numbers with calibrated confidence indicators, trade-off sliders (speed vs. compliance vs. cost), and explicit human checkpoints.

Key UX Innovation

Calibrated multi-factor confidence scoring combining historical success rates, prompt completeness, and risk exposure.

Systems Architecture

Pioneered Figma Tokens & Variables across the team, creating zero-defect token synchronization with offshore devs.

Agent Governance Human-in-the-Loop Figma Tokens Decision Architecture

Measurable Business ROI

45%

Faster operator decision velocity through transparent agent scoring

0

Styling and token discrepancies during dev handoff

Role: Lead UX Strategist
ENTERPRISE BIOPHARMA & CLINICAL RISK Mar 2024 – Sep 2025 (5 Releases)
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Clinical Trial Risk Management System (IRMS) — Safety Analytics & Decision UX

Medical reviewers monitoring global clinical trials were fighting their own BI tool: floating filter menus literally blocked patient IDs and chart axes, and drilling into patient records erased all their active filters. Over 5 releases (R1 to R4.0), I designed a custom dockable navigation shell, introduced longitudinal trending risk charts, and created shared Data Dictionaries that eliminated handoff confusion with offshore engineers.

Spotfire Defect Resolution

Eliminated the platform-wide "floating filter" bug that overlaid chart axes across all reports in production.

Trending RPN Analytics

Replaced flat box plots with longitudinal trendlines mapping risk priority against compliance tolerance bands.

Fortune 50 BioPharma TIBCO Spotfire Data Dictionaries Regulatory UX

Measurable Business ROI

~40%

Faster clinical trial setup and adverse event review

100%

Reports benefited from custom navigation & filter fix

Recognitions: Excellence Award & Pod of Quarter
DEV TOOLS & CODE PROTOTYPING May 2026 – Ongoing
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AI Assist Desktop 5.0 & Agent Command Center — Interactive Code Prototyping

Single-thread chat windows fall apart when developers are simultaneously debugging an API, comparing mainframe COBOL with generated Java, and monitoring test logs. I designed a tab-based desktop workspace with a 'Chat-to-Tab' extraction flow. To make sure engineers didn't get stuck trying to guess how synchronized diffing and keyboard shortcuts should work, I wrote functional HTML/CSS/JS prototypes to stress-test the experience before sprint planning.

Code-Based Prototyping

Wrote working HTML/CSS/JS prototypes to stress-test large code diffs and tab switching ergonomics.

Telemetry Dashboard

Designed high-density operator telemetry to monitor agent token costs and policy violations at a glance.

HTML/CSS/JS Prototypes Mainframe Modernization Keyboard Ergonomics Agent Command Center

Measurable Business ROI

50%

Reduction in post-handoff revisions via interactive code prototypes

35%

Faster legacy code review in Mainframe Modernization

Role: Principal Interaction Architect
0-TO-1 ENTERPRISE SAAS & FINOPS Mar 2022 – Oct 2023 (18+ Months)
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Enterprise Cloud FinOps & Cost Governance SaaS

When companies run thousands of microservices across AWS, Azure, and GCP, cloud bills turn into nightmare spreadsheets that take weeks to decipher. I designed this 0-to-1 platform from scratch: introducing spatial tree mapping (Gprofiler) so teams can spot rogue $30k compute clusters in 5 seconds, an intuitive 3-minute rule wizard, and a dark theme tailored for 24/7 DevOps control rooms.

0-to-1 Product Design FinOps SaaS Gprofiler Tree Maps Dark Mode Systems

Honors & Impact

Top Impactor

Conferred company-wide honor for core FinOps design

3x

Excellence Awards won during this engagement

Flagship Deloitte Asset
INTERNAL ECOSYSTEM & INNOVATION 2022 – 2026
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Internal Ecosystem: Recruiter Portal, Hackathon Winner & "Find the Imposter"

Internal enterprise software is usually neglected and painful to use. I treat internal tools with the same high craftsmanship as flagship client SaaS: redesigning HiBridge to win 1st Place in our company-wide Design Hackathon, speeding up recruiter candidate reviews by 30%, and vibe-coding a live 40-player multiplayer AI social deduction game from scratch over a weekend to prove designers can be end-to-end builders.

1st Place Hackathon Multiplayer AI Game Recruiter Portal Design Systems

Honors & Impact

1st Place

Annual Design Hackathon Championship

40

Live participants on 0-to-1 "Find the Imposter" game

Creative Technologist

Track Record & Trust

Awards & Recognition I Earned

What leadership, client sponsors, and engineering pods recognized me for over my 4.8 years at HashedIn by Deloitte:

Top Impactor 2022–2023

Company-Wide Annual Honor

Awarded for high-velocity cross-functional delivery on Cloud FinOps & studio impact.

1st Place Design Hackathon

Design Hackathon Champion

Re-designed HiBridge: mini dashboard, one-click timesheets & effort analytics.

5x Winner 2022 – 2024

Excellence Awards (x5)

Conferred in May '22, Dec '22, May '23, Feb '24, and Nov '24 for craft mastery.

3x Winner 2022 – 2025

Pod of the Quarter (x3)

Oct '22, Apr '23, and Jan '25 for beating enterprise release targets.

🏆 3 Years Loyalty Award (Jan 2025) ⚡ Promoted to B6H (UX Designer-III) (Oct 2023 – Mar 2024 Cycle) 📈 Double-Digit Increments (Up to 27.7% annualized)

Beyond Pushing Pixels

How I Show Up for My Team

Design leadership isn't just about reviewing Figma files. It's about raising the craft bar, unblocking teammates, and bringing real energy to the studio:

Design Connectiwitty Flagship

Long-term co-organizer of HashedIn’s quarterly studio ritual. Transformed passive presentations into hands-on labs demonstrating live code prototyping, AI vibe coding, and peer celebration.

Design Thinking for Engineering Managers

Designed and delivered the "Design Superheroes" training module for incoming Engineering Managers in Gurgaon. Facilitated the famous "Egg Drop" empathy challenge to build cross-functional collaboration.

"Find the Imposter" 0-to-1 AI Game

I got tired of hearing designers say "devs didn't build what I designed", so I vibe-coded and hosted a live 40-player multiplayer social deduction game over a weekend to prove we can build and ship real software end-to-end.

Mentoring Junior Designers

Formally mentored junior teammates (like Heli) through weekly 1-on-1s, helping them move from visual execution to owning tough stakeholder presentations and running workshops independently.

Hiring & Studio Recruitment

Designated interviewer for candidate fitment rounds. Evaluated incoming design talent on systems thinking, craft execution, visual rigor, and collaborative team mindset.

Designer-to-PO Initiative

Co-created discovery toolkits, user journey templates, and requirements scoping frameworks that bridged UX research directly into Product Ownership across client accounts.

Origin & Authenticity
Jan 2022 – Present (4 Years, 9 Months at HashedIn by Deloitte)

Behind This Dossier: Built from 4+ Years of Continuous Self-Assessments

This dossier isn't retroactive portfolio guesswork or post-rationalized case writing. Since joining HashedIn by Deloitte in January 2022, I maintained a disciplined practice of logging continuous bi-annual self-assessments, project milestones, architecture diagrams, and sprint metrics across every bi-annual performance review cycle.

Every data point in this document—from our 45% delegation velocity leap on the Human-AI Exchange Platform to our 100% resolution of Spotfire clinical occlusion defects and <3 minute FinOps rule wizards—was documented in real time as the systems were engineered and shipped to production.

1. Real-Time Project Logs

Recorded across 18 major project cycles and release streams without retroactive memory decay.

2. Verified Appraisal Evidence

Directly backed by internal performance appraisals, peer reviews, and executive leadership feedback.

3. Auditable Business ROI

Corroborated by 1x Annual Top Impactor, 5x Excellence Awards, and 3x Pod of the Quarter recognitions.

"Great designers don't just ship interfaces; they build institutional memory and hold their work accountable to real metrics."

Source: Bi-Annual Performance Appraisals & Self-Assessments (2022–2026)

Candid Q&A

Honest Answers to Tough Hiring Questions

What design leaders and hiring managers usually ask me in final interview rounds:

What role level am I best suited for? ▼

I operate at the Lead Product Designer / Staff UX Designer level. I bring 11.4 years of total design experience, including 2.5 years as UX Designer-III (Band B6H) leading multi-stream enterprise engagements, design systems, and cross-functional teams. I'm happiest when I'm either owning a core, complex product vertical from 0 to 1, or setting design standards across an organization while mentoring younger designers.

How do you actually work with developers day-to-day? ▼

I treat engineers as true partners, not people to throw tickets to. If an interaction is complex (like multi-pane code diffing or proportional tree maps), I write working HTML/CSS/JS prototypes so they can interact with the actual behavior instead of guessing from static Figma frames. We author shared Data Dictionaries together, align Figma Variables with front-end code tokens, and have quick syncs during sprints. When designers understand CSS, DOM structure, and API constraints, 80% of typical handoff friction simply disappears.

What is your honest take on designing for AI? ▼

Most companies are just slapping chat bubbles on top of an LLM API and calling it an 'AI feature'. But in real enterprise workflows, chat is often the worst interface. Users don't want to type paragraphs of text to do tasks they used to do in two clicks; and they certainly don't trust an agent when they have no idea why it made a specific choice. My focus is on trust calibration: clear confidence scores, transparent trade-offs (speed vs. compliance vs. cost), interactive tabs instead of endless scroll, and non-negotiable human-in-the-loop checkpoints before any destructive or high-risk action runs.

How do you handle tough enterprise clients and ambiguity? ▼

Enterprise clients usually start with ambiguous briefs, conflicting stakeholder opinions, and strict regulatory limits. Instead of waiting for a perfect PRD (which never comes), I turn vague requirements into interactive wireframe flows or clickable prototypes within 48 hours. Putting something tangible in front of clients instantly cuts through theoretical debates. During my 4.8 years at HashedIn by Deloitte, I was the primary offshore design lead presenting directly to Fortune 50 enterprise leadership, running weekly alignment workshops, and earning direct client praise.