Abhilasha Kanthe

Senior UX Designer • Experience Design Consultant • Product Designer
Email: kantheabhilasha@gmail.com | Phone: +91 9049273002 | Location: Maharashtra, India | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/abhilashakanthe | Portfolio: abhilashakanthe.com

Professional Summary

Senior Experience Designer with 7+ years of expertise leading enterprise UX strategy across Oil & Gas, FinTech, EdTech, and HealthTech. Proven specialist in user research, complex workflow orchestration, interactive rapid prototyping, and scalable enterprise design systems. Track record of delivering AI-integrated platform experiences that boost task completion rates by 25%+ and accelerate enterprise user onboarding by 60%.

Core Competencies & Technical Skills

UX & Product Design: User Research & Strategy, User Journey Mapping, Information Architecture (IA), Wireframing, Rapid Prototyping (Low & High-Fidelity), Interaction Design, Usability Testing, Responsive Web Design, Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), Enterprise Design Systems, AI-Driven UX
Tools & Software: Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), Jira, Miro, FigJam, Zeroheight
Methodologies: Design Thinking, Agile / Scrum Frameworks, Cross-functional Leadership, Design Sprints, Atomic Design System Methodology

Professional Experience

IBM Feb 2026 – Present
Senior UX Designer • Barclays Banking & Payments (Web)
  • Optimized user-centric web banking experiences for Barclays Banking & Payments, transforming complex financial transactions into intuitive, accessible, and scalable digital solutions that substantially improved usability, transaction speed, and customer engagement.
IBM | Neudesic Technologies Pvt Ltd (An IBM Company) June 2022 – Jan 2026
Senior UX Designer | GS Senior Consultant II
Lead UX Designer, Well Construction Digital Platform (Web) • Schlumberger (SLB) & Infosys
  • Consulted for Schlumberger (SLB) via Infosys to lead UX/UI digital transformation, consolidating four fragmented global verticals into a unified web platform for well construction, rig operations, inspections, and work order lifecycle management.
  • Spearheaded UX strategy and cross-regional field research (US, MEA, APAC, Europe) to harmonize multi-region workflows, architecting a modular design system that enabled 40% faster onboarding and guaranteed UI consistency across modules.
  • Delivered an enterprise-scale solution that reduced end-to-end workflow steps by 30%, elevated task success rate from 68% to 92%, and drove active adoption by 1,000+ global field users within the initial production release.
  • Partnered directly with engineering for seamless handoff using annotated design specifications and interactive Figma prototypes, contributing to a 35% reduction in post-launch support tickets.
Lead UX Designer, Asset Mobility & Work Pack (Mobile) • Schlumberger (SLB) & Infosys
  • Led end-to-end mobile UX for OMT Move IT & OMT Work Pack mobile applications, simplifying complex hazardous-environment field workflows to reduce task completion time by 45%, scale daily transactions to 3,000+, and attain a 94% task success rate.
RFPs & Strategic Innovation Initiatives 2024 – 2025
Lead Product & AI Designer • Agentic AI GTM Platform & Control Room
  • Owned end-to-end UX for a flagship Agentic AI Go-To-Market platform, driving strategy, user research, and rapid prototyping to deliver a scalable Agentic AI Control Room concept developed in direct partnership with Executive Leadership / Vice President.
  • Conducted competitive analysis and domain-specific user research with Manufacturing and Life Insurance Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), formulating a validated feature set and de-risking development for cross-industry expansion.
  • Accelerated the delivery timeline by 3 weeks via rapid interactive prototyping and iterative feedback loops, authoring comprehensive journey maps and storyboards to align stakeholders on complex autonomous multi-agent workflows.
  • Successfully presented and socialized the UX vision across C-suite leadership, securing executive buy-in and establishing a scalable design framework backed by high-fidelity interactive prototypes.
Super AI Polaris Pvt Ltd | India Aug 2021 – June 2022
Senior UX/UI Designer & Team Lead • Scalable EdTech Platform (Web)
  • Led UX/UI for an EdTech learning ecosystem serving parents and K-12 students, spanning foundational learning to IIT Kanpur-affiliated certifications; reduced bounce rate on core course discovery pages by 28% through restructured information architecture.
  • Developed granular user personas, end-to-end journey maps, and scalable UI for multi-age learning paths, boosting sign-up completions for the IIT certification program by 15%.
  • Built high-fidelity interactive Figma prototypes for engaging, age-appropriate interfaces, decreasing parent-dashboard support inquiries by 4%.
M90 Technology Pvt Ltd | India Jan 2019 – July 2021
Senior UX/UI & Visual Designer
  • Delivered 50+ digital product projects across Healthcare, E-commerce, Banking, and Retail, driving an average 20% lift in user engagement for key client campaigns through data-informed interface redesigns.
  • Translated commercial marketing and product objectives into human-centered designs for portals, web apps, and campaigns, successfully expanding account scope for 3 major enterprise clients.
  • Engineered reusable component libraries and brand design systems for cross-channel consistency, slashing design-to-development handoff time by 30%.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Information Technology • M.G.M. College of Engineering & Technology (JNEC), Aurangabad
Graduated with First Class Distinction
2013 – 2017
Higher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C.) • Vasantrao Naik Junior College, Aurangabad
Score: 72%
2011 – 2012
Secondary School Certificate (S.S.C.) • S.B.O.A. Public School, Aurangabad
Score: 92%
2010 – 2011

Certifications & Professional Credentials

Google UX Design Professional Certificate • Google (Coursera)
Specialization: Foundations of UX Design, UX Research, Empathy Maps & Personas, Wireframing & Prototyping, Responsive Web Design in Adobe XD, Designing for Social Good.
Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) • UX/UI Certification Track • 22+ Industry Courses Successfully Completed
Advanced Coursework: Design Thinking, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Research Methods & Best Practices, Mobile UX Strategy, UI Design Patterns, AI for Designers.