Pragathesh Ravi — UX Design Lead
Available for senior roles — Global

Designing enterprise products that scale to millions.

A decade designing software end-to-end — from packaging SaaS at Esko to leading UX at Q2 Software, where I work on a digital banking platform used by financial institutions globally. I started in QA, which still shapes how I design: question every assumption, sweat the edge cases, ship things that hold up.

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Pragathesh Ravi
Bengaluru · India · Open to relocation
10+
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01 — Core Capabilities

What I bring to the team.

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Design Leadership
Setting design vision, mentoring designers, and aligning cross-functional partners across product, engineering, and research. Translating business goals into design strategy that ships.
Strategy Mentorship Stakeholder Mgmt
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User Research & Discovery
End-to-end research — interviews, usability studies, journey mapping, and synthesis. Turning qualitative signal and quantitative data into product decisions teams can defend.
User Interviews Usability Testing Journey Mapping
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Interaction & Visual Design
Wireframes, hi-fi prototypes, and pixel-tight UI for web and mobile. From rough exploration to production-ready specs with motion, states, and edge cases dialed in.
Figma Prototyping Motion
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Design Systems & Accessibility
Built Esko Cloud's design system from zero — tokens, components, documentation. WCAG 2.1 AA compliance baked in, scaling consistency across product lines without fracturing.
Design Tokens Component Lib WCAG 2.1 AA
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Cross-functional Collaboration
Partnering with PMs, engineers, and data teams from kickoff through release. Clear specs, design reviews, and handoffs that respect velocity without compromising craft.
Agile Design Reviews Dev Handoff
2023 — Present
Q2 Software
AI · Fintech
UX Design Lead
Leading UX across an AI-powered digital banking platform. Driving design strategy, system cohesion, and cross-functional alignment for 2M+ users at financial institutions globally.
Design Strategy Financial UX AI Products Team Leadership
2020 — 2023
Esko
Cloud · Packaging SaaS
UX/UI Designer 2
Built the Esko Cloud design system from scratch. Shaped the platform's UX foundation — component libraries, accessibility standards — drawing on 5 years of QA expertise.
Design Systems Cloud Platform Accessibility Enterprise SaaS
2019 — 2020
Datamatics Digital
Digital Agency
Junior UX Designer
Agency-side UX: turning client briefs into clear journeys and build-ready specs across concurrent accounts — workshop-style discovery, rapid iteration, and handoffs that made intent obvious for build teams.
Agency Delivery Client Discovery Design Handoffs
2014 — 2019
Esko
QA Engineering
QA Engineer
Five years shaping software quality — building a precision mindset that became the foundation of every design decision since. The origin story of an engineer who learned to think in users.
Systems Thinking Software QA Printing Engineering

A career that moved from Printing Engineering → QA → UX isn't a detour. It's the reason every product decision is interrogated from first principles.

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Engineer First, Designer Always
Precision thinking doesn't tolerate ambiguity. Every design decision is interrogated for logic before it's polished for aesthetics.
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Systems, Not Screens
Design at scale means tokens, components, cross-product consistency. Architecture that scales without fracturing.
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Outcomes Over Output
Velocity matters, but only when it ships value. I measure work in usability, retention, and adoption — not deliverables produced.
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AI as Force Multiplier
Using AI to accelerate research synthesis, prototyping, and accessibility audits — augmenting craft, never replacing the judgment behind it.
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Figma
Webflow
Spline 3D
GSAP
SVG Animation
User Research
Design Systems
Accessibility
AI Workflows
Prototyping
DesignOps
Zero-to-One
Figma
Webflow
Spline 3D
GSAP
SVG Animation
User Research
Design Systems
Accessibility
AI Workflows
Prototyping
DesignOps
Zero-to-One
Open to opportunities

Let's build
futures.