Senior Product Designer (UX & UI). Plus researcher, professionally nosy.

Designing high-impact enterprise systems and intelligent productsTranslating complex compute and AI capabilities into intuitive, human-centered experiences.

Vibha Bharadwaj

Bengaluru skyline with a sign reading Rooted in Bangalore.
London skyline with a roundel reading Designing from London.
Vibha Bharadwaj, laughing, in a magenta sari and silver earrings.

AI at co-pilot. Fundamentals at the helm.

About

Hand me something I’ve never done.
That’s usually where I do my best work.

Skip me, or flip me.

The work is one click away. My story is one flip away.

Skip to work

Enterprise UX by trade. Product design by heart.

  1. 01 · Enterprise UXComplicated tools, made calm. It’s my specialty.
  2. 02 · Product designWhere I go to play. Often.
  3. 03 · ResearchNosy on purpose. The real brief lives here.

6+years of asking “but why?”
for a living.

Work station

Frustration isn’t human error.
It’s a system that hasn’t been designed yet.

6 case studies

DeloitteEnterprise UX

The Invisible Redesign

Two enterprise platforms, rebuilt around the habits expert users already relied on.

2023 – 2025Read case study

EdTechInclusive design

Smart Slate

An offline-first learning platform where the AI supports without ever judging.

2025 – 2026Read case study

HoneywellConversational AI

One intent, two channels

Every intent resolved the same way across voice and chat. 30+ usability sessions; task completion up 22%.

2022 – 2023Read case study

Wearable safetyEmerging technology

InSync

A concept for a satellite-enabled wearable that keeps vulnerable people reachable when networks fail.

2025 – 2026Read case study

AccessibilityEnterprise UXResearch

Dark mode isn’t accessible by default

I tested the “accessible default” with 73 people, then designed a system that doesn’t depend on it.

2026Read case study

Civic servicesUX research

What breaks, and how badly

A heuristic evaluation of the national document wallet used by 550+ million citizens.

10 findingsRead case study

Fair warning

I ask “why” until it’s awkward. Then once more, for the data.

Experience

The journey so far

From web design in Bengaluru to enterprise platforms and a Master’s in London. Spot a badge? There’s more behind it.

  1. Instructor, London Core Team

    UXPective · part-time

    London

    • Own the cohort cycle: live lessons that take learners through the full design process, from ideation to final prototype.
    • Run hands-on sessions on UI/UX tools and methods, in plain, beginner-friendly language.
    • Review and evaluate learner projects, and help run the London region of a community of around 1,900 designers across four countries.

    Now · Present

  2. MSc User Experience Design

    Kingston University · Distinction

    London

    • Major project Smart Slate: an offline-first, AI-aided learning platform for underserved children.
    • Designed InSync, a satellite-enabled wearable safety concept, end to end.
    Kingston University certificate: Vibha Bharadwaj has been conferred with the award of Master of Science with Distinction in User Experience Design, 12 March 2026.

    Jan ’25 – Jan ’26

  3. Assistant Manager, UX Design

    Deloitte

    Bengaluru

    • End-to-end UX/UI design and research, concept to delivery, including Total Testware, an AI-assisted enterprise product.
    • Built and maintained a component-based Figma design system across products: UI consistency up 40%, handoff queries down 30%.
    • Mentored designers and led two inclusive design research studies adopted into design system guidelines.
    • Recognised with a Move the Dot team award for change, innovation and collaboration.
    Vibha with ten colleagues from the Deloitte team, outdoors in the sun.The Deloitte team dressed in pink, posing under a palm tree.Vibha and a colleague in front of the Deloitte sign in the office.Deloitte Certificate of Achievement, Dot of Fame: awarded to Vibha Bharadwaj for Move the Dot, Team category, 3 October 2023, for Change and Innovation and Collaboration.

    Aug ’23 – Jan ’25

  4. Design Thinking and Innovation

    IIT Delhi · Continuing Education Programme

    Online

    • A five-month programme on framing problems before solving them: empathy, ideation, prototyping, testing.
    • Taken online alongside full-time conversational AI work at Honeywell, so each week’s method went straight into live projects.
    • Sharpened how I run workshops and turn messy stakeholder input into a shared problem statement.
    IIT Delhi e-certificate: Vibha Bharadwaj completed the online certificate programme on Design Thinking and Innovation, 2 July 2022 to 25 November 2022.

    Jul ’22 – Nov ’22

  5. UI/UX Designer, Conversational AI

    Honeywell · Acronotics Limited

    Bengaluru

    • Conversational AI and interface design for regulated industrial products: aerospace, fire and life safety, building technologies.
    • Ran 30+ usability testing sessions; successful task completion improved by 22%.
    • Delivered high-fidelity Figma prototypes and interaction specifications within Agile delivery cycles.
    Vibha in a navy blazer standing beside the large red Honeywell sign outside the Honeywell office entrance.

    Jun ’22 – Aug ’23

  6. UX Lead, contract · eCommerce

    Chiya Hub

    Remote · UK

    • Led UX for customer-facing responsive web journeys; checkout task completion up 18%.
    • Structured CMS-driven page templates with content and marketing stakeholders.

    Jan ’22 – May ’22

  7. User Experience Design

    IIT Bombay · Postgraduate programme

    Online · Mumbai

    • Where an engineer’s instinct became a design practice: research methods, interaction design, usability evaluation.
    • Taught online through the pandemic, with graduation on campus in Mumbai.
    • The foundation for moving from web design into product UX.
    IIT Bombay certificate: Vibha Bharadwaj completed the CEP course on User Experience Design, December 2021 to May 2022.

    Dec ’21 – May ’22

  8. UX Designer, apprenticeship

    Amsan Technology

    Bengaluru

    • Designed responsive websites and SaaS dashboards in Figma and WordPress; client engagement up 20%.
    • Led UX research, wireframing and prototyping for consumer-facing digital products.
    • Built modular, reusable design assets that sped up internal processes by 30%.

    Jan ’20 – Dec ’21

House rules

Five non-negotiables. Learned the hard way.

The short list I won’t trade away, and the tools I’d happily swap tomorrow.

Tue 08:4712%

08:47

Tuesday

Stand-up in 13 minutes. Also, it’s raining.

Every screen is somebody’s Tuesday.

Not demo day. Tired, distracted, one bar of signal. If it works then, it works.

  • Figma
  • Adobe XD
  • Notion
  • Framer
  • Canva
  • Claude Code
  • Gemini
  • ChatGPT
  • Miro
  • Cursor
  • Maze
  • Dovetail

The toolbox. The tools change every couple of years. The nosiness is permanent.

“Everything else, I can be talked out of. These five, I can’t.”

Blog

Nobody asked for my two cents. Here they are anyway.

Five so far. More when the next draft stops arguing with me.

Read all five

Beyond UX

Off the clock, still making things

Yes, this is oversharing. Consider it a sneak peek at the person behind the pixels.

Portrait photography

People are my
favourite subject.

I specialise in portraits, which is user research with better lighting: make someone comfortable, then wait for the real expression.

22 portraits · 6 landscapes

The other kind
of composition.

Tempo, pauses and knowing when to stay quiet.

Fluent in three languages. Sarcasm makes four.

  • ನಮಸ್ಕಾರKannada
  • HelloEnglish
  • नमस्तेHindi
Vibha as a toddler, hand on a plate of dosa, looking up at the camera mid-bite.
Exhibit A

I love cooking.
I love dosa more.

Still my favourite thing to eat. The research started early.

Namma Bengaluru,
always.

Wherever I’m designing from, this is home. It’s also where my favourite person lives.

Vibha’s brother in sunglasses and a maroon T-shirt, with a hand-written label reading: favourite person. An illustrated Bengaluru skyline with a sign reading Rooted in Bangalore.

My people

Chief planner.
Resident paparazzi.

Someone has to start the group chat, book the table and take the photos nobody posed for. It’s me. It’s always me.

Nine friends standing close together, smiling at the camera.
Powered by pixels and far too many dosa.

Ask me
anything.

Me, somewhere in the background, guessing what you might want to know.

Message me

Vibha, sort ofReplies instantly. Runs on dosa, not GPUs.

Pick a question, or ask your own.

Playlist

The crate

Four records. Pick a language.

Then sort by mood. Hover a sleeve to slide the record out.

Recipe book

Recipe book

Namma Bengaluru

1 / 6Under the rain trees