Hi, I’m Milind, a product designer building
AI-assisted and system-driven experiences
for modern digital products
Over the last 4+ years, I’ve designed products across SaaS, fintech, marketplaces, and operational platforms, working on dashboards, multi-step workflows, analytics interfaces, and internal systems.
My work combines product thinking, structured UX, and AI-assisted workflows to improve clarity, reduce friction, and create scalable user experiences across web and mobile.
Wind Caddie — Designing smarter club decisions through real-time environmental data
Wind Caddie is a data-driven golf companion that helps players choose the right club using live weather, GPS, elevation, and player-specific shot data.
The goal was to design a fast, glanceable experience that transforms complex environmental inputs into confident on-course decisions — while maintaining clarity, trust, and usability during active play.
Bring To Me — Redefining cross-border delivery through traveler networks
Bring To Me is a peer-to-peer delivery platform that connects travelers with buyers looking to transport products across borders. The experience combines route-based discovery, real-time negotiation, secure payments, and delivery coordination into a single ecosystem.
The goal was to design a trust-first marketplace that simplifies international item requests while making cross-border delivery feel transparent, reliable, and effortless for both travelers and buyers.
Yard Culture — Making professional landscape design accessible online
Yard Culture is a digital landscape design platform that helps homeowners transform outdoor spaces through guided consultations, tailored yard plans, and construction-ready documentation. The experience combines online collaboration, visual planning tools, and practical build guidance into a streamlined end-to-end service.
The goal was to simplify landscape planning into a more approachable and cost-transparent experience — helping users confidently move from inspiration to execution without the complexity of traditional landscaping workflows.
ModPods — Reimagining workspace access through modular pod booking
ModPods is an on-demand workspace platform that allows users to discover, reserve, and access private modular pods through a seamless mobile experience. The system combines real-time availability, digital booking flows, and smart access infrastructure into a unified product ecosystem.
The goal was to design a frictionless booking experience that bridges physical spaces with connected access systems — making short-term workspaces feel as effortless and responsive as modern mobility platforms.
From early-stage ideas to scalable platforms, every product decision is shaped around clarity, usability, and long-term product growth.
- Product Design
- UX Systems
- Dashboard Design
- Workflow Optimization
- Design Systems
- AI-Assisted Workflows
- SaaS Platforms
- Fintech Products
- Marketplaces
- Operational Systems
- Multi-role Platforms
- Web & Mobile Apps
My process
The process adapts to the product, users, and business context, balancing usability, scalability, and implementation across the design lifecycle.
Discovery
Understanding users, business goals, and constraints before designing solutions
Problem Framing
Identifying friction points and aligning UX direction with product goals
User Flows
Structuring journeys, architecture, and interaction patterns for clarity and usability
Interface Design
Exploring intuitive, scalable, and accessible interface systems through iterative design
Validation
Refining experiences through collaboration, usability feedback, testing, and iteration
Handoff & Optimization
Ensuring smooth implementation, design consistency, and post-launch experiences
Experience
May 2023 – Mar 2026
UI/UX Designer
- Breadth of Delivery: Delivered end-to-end UX (user flows, wireframes, prototypes, interface specs) for 20+ digital products across SaaS, fintech, and marketplace platforms spanning web, Android, and iOS.
- Marketplace at Scale – Hubsups: Owned the full experience as sole designer across buyer, vendor, and admin panels for an FF&E/OS&E procurement marketplace serving 25K+ vendors in the US, running usability testing (Hotjar, UserTesting) and redesigning the vendor product-listing flow from 8 steps to a 4-step drawer to cut completion time and form abandonment.
- AI-Driven Product UX – Wind Caddie: Led on-course UX for an AI-powered golf app built around a real-time weather algorithm, setting one-glance interaction as the core constraint so players read critical wind and distance data mid-round without breaking focus.
- Credential-Grade Assessment UX – Upskill by Cambridge: Designed assessment flows for a CEFR-aligned English testing platform built with the University of Cambridge, structuring four skill journeys (reading, writing, listening, speaking) across web and mobile with proctoring and results delivered in minutes.
- Design System & Handoff: Built and maintained token-based design systems and atomic component libraries in Figma, designing within React and shadcn structures for clean, low-ambiguity design-to-development handoff and WCAG 2.1 accessibility.
Jul 2022 – Apr 2023
Executive UI/UX Designer
- Government-Scale Fintech: Designed UX for national MSME lending platforms (JanSamarth, PSB Loans in 59 minutes) processing high-volume loan applications across 250+ lenders, serving public and private sector banks.
- Form Complexity Reduction: Restructured dense, multi-step loan-application forms using atomic design principles, supporting borrower journeys where in-principle approval dropped from 20-25 days to under 59 minutes at the platform level.
- Transaction Status UX: Converted dense tabular financial data into intuitive visual hierarchies, improving status clarity and lowering cognitive load for first-time MSME users.
- ML-Driven Credit UX – FIT Rank: Partnered with external stakeholders, including TransUnion CIBIL, on FIT Rank, an ML-based MSME credit-ranking product, designing borrower-facing interfaces that translated a 1-10 risk score and underlying financial signals into clear, understandable feedback.
Jan 2022 – Jul 2022
Design Intern
- Borrower-Flow Prototyping: Designed and prototyped fintech mobile app screens for multi-step borrower journeys, focusing on step-by-step flows built to reduce drop-off at each stage.
- Early Design-System Contribution: Contributed reusable UI components and patterns to the team's evolving design system, building component-thinking habits under senior designer mentorship.
The human behind the pixels: Who’s Milind?
Milind Sharma is a product designer based in Ahmedabad, India, with 4+ years of experience designing SaaS, fintech, and marketplace products at IndiaNIC Infotech Limited. He has worked on 20+ products across operational systems, dashboards, multi-role platforms, and complex workflows.
He started in mechanical engineering, which sounds unrelated to design until you realize engineering is really about understanding systems. Taking things apart. Finding the logic underneath them. That instinct stayed with him.
Before opening Figma, he tries to understand why products behave the way they do, where users struggle, and what breaks when systems scale.
He believes the hardest things to design are often the simplest looking: a phone dialer, a toggle switch, a booking flow that quietly works.
His approach is simple:
function first, aesthetics second.
He stays close during development because shipped products matter more than mockups. Outside work, he reads, plays games, and writes occasionally about design, systems, and AI.
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