Hi there, Welcome to my digital space!
I'm a Digital Experience Design Professional based out in Pune, India, with 18years of design experience. I love to create delightful experiences that work for both businesses and users. I enjoy working through data and numbers to create visually impactful designs.
Sachin Gaikwad
Digital Experience Designer
Digital Experience Designer (DXD)
“Passion to follow mature UX practice through research finding, understand users, their psychology, business goals, to apply critical design thinking. Bridge understanding gap by uncovering grey areas that were missed at initial stage, to deliver final design assets that translates UX goals into meaningful designs, sustainable, desirable, functional & viable business solutions.”
Education
Maharashtra Board
SSC from DBHS High School, Yerawada, Pune. 1989-1990
Career Journey
Expert in digital experience design.
Atos Global IT Solutions & Services Pvt Ltd
DXD Engineer
July 2016 - Jun 2025
SunGard Global Solutions (I) Pvt Ltd
Internal Comms & SharePoint Expert
May 2010 - Jul 2015
Smartsourcing Global (I) Pvt Ltd
Graphic Designer / Web Designer
Dec 2007 - Nov 2009
Industry Recognized Certifications
BKP Sabha's College of Art
Dip in Applied Art (Commercial Artist) from Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalay, Pune. 1991-1995
Dropped out at Intermediate level in 3rd year. Overall total 5yr diploma.
Digikore Studios Pvt Ltd
Lead Colorist / Digital Artist
Oct 2006 - Nov 2007
TOOLS & EXPERTISE
UX Research
As an advocate for end users, I follow design thinking methodology to ensure their pain areas gets addressed through informed design decisions and the product matches desired business goals vs functional task-flows. Making the UI intuitive enough by eliminating confusing labels, unwanted tasks within the expected overall application workflow.
Front-end Technologies
Design & Technical Skillset
My overall skillsets and proficiency includes...
Design Thinking Process
As an advocate of end-users, I follow mature UX practice, and ensure users problem areas are addressed through minimalistic design approach. Continuous user feedback, alignment with internal project teams, stakeholder inputs, feedbacks, PO feedback to test the usefulness of design, implement feedback, follow iterative process, with informed design decisions at all stages of the project lifecycles.
Recraft Information Architecture (IA) by using plain user language and avoid technical jargons thereby eliminate unwanted task. Rephrase confusing labels to make the flow and actions obvious and enhance visual hierarchy. I make sure the newly recommended design match the desired business goals, functional task-flows so the overall application is intuitive, usable, sustainable and viable.
"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving"
- Jeffry Veen
Design & Productivity Tools
Graphic Design, Print & Publication
My Projects
Showcasing innovative digital experiences for B2B & B2C business solutions.
FOLIO
Loan Asset Management System
Inventory Management System
Helped design the DT 4.0 service solution that caters various domain industries within energy, additive manufacturing, aviation etc.
Participated in ethnographic research, lead the UX team and designed UI of sustainable solution within renewable energy domain
Helped in transforming legacy app used internally by workforce management team, demand managers & HR recruiters
Helped design & transform old legacy finance app, into modern web UI used by internal admin users to manage customer loan data.
Designed a inventory management system for practice team that helped track down assets handed over within UX team
Barcode Admin
Helped in transforming legacy app used by admin users within the additive manufacturing domain industry.
Dover Pack, Dover Ship
Helped in transform legacy app used by B2B client for logistics & shipping domain.
Practice Management Tool
Designed an initial flow for various modules that met the desired business goals and need.
ABOUT
Digital Experience Design
Expertise in using design tools such as Adobe CC suite, Figma, Invision DSM, Axure RP, Adobe XD, Sketch, Balsamic, DrawiO, Gliffy Diagram, Qlick Sense, Power BI etc.
Front-end Technologies
Responsive layout, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, UI component library, basic javascript jQuery integration. Fair understanding of Material UI components, Frame VR, SharePoint CMS, Liferay DXP, Qlik Sense, Power BI, Sitecore and WCAG accessibility guidelines .
Awards & Achievements
Spot recognition for delivering excellent quality BI dashboard digital prototypes for an Additive manufacturing client RFP at a record time. Y.2023
Spot recognition for outstanding contribution in Atos's digital journey towards metaverse platforms. Y.2022
Spot recognition for delivering quality wireframes, digital mock-ups for every single sprint for transforming MyCareer legacy app HRIS application into modern web UI. This lead to UI improvements and enrich user experience of application. Y.2021
Received internal and external spot recognitions for outstanding UX contributions in a timely manner
Helped design and setup UX Lab facility for CX practice. Coordinated with internal/ external stakeholder teams and managed setup & launch Lab facility within timeline
Managed movement and successfully rebuild LAB facility at other location
Received 7 Kudos awards for displaying enthusiasm and commitment in working together across functions. For helping in organizing various enabler events, team celebrations and successfully managing the KYZ quiz series. Building GSC intranet homepage theme and ensuring a timely launch! For designing and developing screensavers & deploying ‘snap comms’ alert pop-up for IT
Received a Laureate award for learning video production from scratch (Elucido digital TV platform) & running SunGard TV; thereby increasing communication reach & enabling ROI during the fourth quarter of 2013.
I Craft delightful experiences for Your Digital Journey. I'm UI/ UX Professional with total 18yr of IT experience. 8yrs of hands-on experience in UI Design, UX Research, Design Thinking Methodology. I helped design Dynamic Dashboard that display critical KPIs through Data Visualization. Helped in Digital Transformation of old Legacy Systems into modern web UI. I design Websites, Designed Content, manage & updated CMS portal, Visual & Communication Design, HTML Mailer templates, Graphic Design, Print Publication and much more..
"Great Work!! Thank you Sachin!! It is a very impressive piece of work in a very limited time.. Good stuff and thanks for the hard work."
Ritesh Bhinde
"I am very impressed with the FIGMA prototype that you have come up with. Your expertise in prototype development, understanding of user experience and quality of deliverables is excellent, I am glad that I got to work with you on this challenging task. Keep up the great work!!"
Chetan Lakhani
Client Testimonials
Hear what the clients say about their digital experience journey.
"I would like to take this opportunity, to appreciate your great efforts for FX projects.
You have played critical role in following below activities as part of UXD process for FX projects:
Introduction to rapid prototyping helped us gain timely customer feedback, quick design overviews and saved a lot of rework on dev efforts.
Mentoring junior designers within the team, made them aware about the design thinking process
Your value added feedback on all FX projects, before the final design handovers helped us, deliver quality output.
You are great designer with good communication skills who maintains harmony within team, thanks for all your efforts"
Vishwanjali Jadhav
"I would like to appreciate you for on time delivering quality wireframes for every single sprint of MyCareer HRIS application development. This has lead to improvement in application UI and user experience. Keep up the good work!"
Sachin Kulkarni - Delivery Manager
"We are delighted to recognize your enthusiasm and commitment in building the new Sunshine homepage and ensuring timely launch!"
Paul D'Souza
"Kudos in doing a fabulous creative execution of the farewell PPT for Akila & that too in record timing!"
Lopamudra Bhattacharya
"Kudos for demonstrating a high level of ownership in building the new GSC intranet & effectively collaborate with colleagues across geographies to realize solutions to several technical hurdles!"
Paul D'Souza
"Laureate presented to Sachin for learning video production from scratch & running SunGard TV; thereby increasing communication reach & enabling ROI during the 4th quarter of 2013 at SunGard."
Manoj Menon
"Kudos in working together across functions and helping in organizing various enabler events, team celebrations and the KYC quiz series. Look forward for many more successes in the years to come. Keep up the good work!!"
Manoj Vanjari
"Kudos Sachin for developing Infosec screensavers. Wonderful job done!"
Mahesh Sonawane
"Kudos for an outstanding and efficient contribution towards the POSHAW campaign. Thanking you from all of us."
Saji Daniel
"Kudos for a job well done!
We are delighted to recognize the enthusiasm an commitment you have shown in deploying "SNAPCOMMS" Alert on SUNPAY. Look forward to you achieving many more success in years to come."
Vinit Teredesai
Let's Stay Connected..
Contact
Location
A504 Madhuban Society, Alandi Road, Kalas Vishrantwadi, Pune - 411015, (Mah) India.
Work Hours
9 AM - 5 PM (IST)
Mon to Fri
Reach out for inquiries about digital experiences, website design, mobile app design and all kind of printing needs. Let's collaborate on your next project.
Weekly Off: Sat to Sun