Udaya Lakshmi
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Eleven plus years designing research-led, accessible digital products across Retail, Manufacturing, Ecommerce, and Healthcare — from early user flows to shipped design systems.

Experience11+ years
PracticeResearch → IA → UI → Design Systems
CompaniesNTT Data, Cyient, eBay, Cigna
DomainsRetail, Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Healthcare

About

Design thinking applied end to end — from a stakeholder workshop to a shipped component library.

I'm a UX/UI designer who has spent the last eleven plus years turning ambiguous problems into interfaces people can actually use. My work sits at the intersection of research and craft: understanding what a user needs before a single pixel gets placed, then following that understanding all the way through wireframes, prototypes, and production-ready design systems.

Across retail, manufacturing, ecommerce, and healthcare, the products change but the questions stay the same — who is this for, what are they trying to get done, and what's in their way. I've worked inside large organisations including NTT Data, Cyient, eBay and Cigna partnering closely with engineering and product teams under Agile Scrum to move from insight to interface without losing the thread.

11+
years in UX/UI design
04
industries designed for
04
enterprise organisations

Experience

A career built across enterprise product and platform teams.

01

NTT Data

UX/UI Designer
Retail Enterprise Platforms
02

Cyient

Senior UX/UI Designer
Manufacturing
03

eBay

Senior UX/UI Designer
Ecommerce CMS
04

Cigna

Senior UX/UI Designer
Healthcare

Case studies

A closer look at two latest projects, from problem to shipped outcome.

Domains

Different industries, the same discipline of research-first design.

domain

Retail

Shopping, merchandising, and in-store to online journeys.

domain

Manufacturing

Internal tools, operational workflows, and data-heavy dashboards.

domain

Ecommerce

Discovery, cart, checkout, and conversion-focused flows.

domain

Healthcare

Care access, member portals, and compliance-conscious design.

Skills

Organised the way the work actually flows, research through to tools and delivery.

UX Research & Strategy

  • User Research
  • User Personas
  • Journey Mapping
  • Competitor Analysis
  • Requirements Gathering
  • UX Strategy
  • Design Thinking
  • User-Centred Design (UCD)
  • Brainstorming Sessions

UX / information Architecture

  • Wireframing
  • Interaction Design
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Visual Design Mock-ups
  • Design Sprints
  • Style Guides
  • Branding Design System
  • User Flows
  • Story Telling

Prototyping & Design

  • Low-Fidelity Prototypes
  • High-Fidelity Prototypes
  • Visual Design Mockups
  • Design Systems
  • UI Pattern Libraries
  • Style Guides
  • Branding Design Systems

UI & Visual Design

  • Responsive Web Design
  • Mobile-First Design
  • Typography
  • Colour Psychology
  • Iconography
  • Layout Design
  • Image Enhancements
  • Infographics
  • Digital Brochures
  • UI Components

UX / Design tools

  • Figma
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Sketch

Development & Front-end

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Bootstrap
  • Responsive Web Development
  • CSS Animations
  • CSS Layouts
  • CSS Box Model
  • WordPress
  • Sitecore CMS

Usability & Accessibility

  • Usability Testing
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Accessibility Testing
  • WCAG Accessibility Standards
  • W3C Web Standards

IDE & Development tools

  • Visual Studio Code
  • Eclipse IDE
  • Notepad++
  • Sublime Text

Collaboration & Project Tools

  • JIRA
  • Agile Scrum
  • Sprint Planning
  • Design Reviews

Productivity tools

  • Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Ai tools

  • Claude
  • Figma AI