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IIT Kanpur PhD · UX Research · Design Ops

From IIT labs
to 400M+ users —
research-led.

UX Research & Design Ops Lead at Jio Platforms. PhD & M.Des from IIT Kanpur. Defining experience standards, driving design system research, and embedding user insights across India's largest digital ecosystem.

Dr. Pushkar Pandey
PhD · IIT Kanpur
UX Research Lead
Design Ops · Jio
33+ Studies
Dr. Pushkar Pandey
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Selected Work

Capabilities

UX Research

  • Usability Testing
  • Empirical UX Studies
  • UX Questionnaires
  • Qualitative Research
  • Design Pattern Derivation

CX Strategy

  • Experience Principles Verification
  • CX Standards Auditing
  • Journey Mapping
  • User Research Synthesis
  • Measurement Frameworks

Design Systems

  • Token Architecture
  • Component Governance
  • Adoption & Migration
  • Design–Dev Handoff
  • Figma & MCP Workflows

Brand Integration

  • Brand–Experience Alignment
  • Rebranding Implementation
  • Visual Identity Governance
  • Cross-team Coordination

AI-Powered Tools

  • Audit Automation (Claude)
  • Self-Serve Adoption Tools
  • Figma MCP Integration
  • Cursor & Dovetail Workflows

About

6+

Years in UX & Design Ops

10+

Jio Products Audited

15

Experience Standards

3

International Publications

PhD

2019 – 2023

Doctor of Philosophy

IIT Kanpur

Handheld AR Games · UX Design Patterns

IIT KANPUR
M.Des

2019 – 2021

Master of Design

IIT Kanpur

Design · Human-Computer Interaction

IIT KANPUR
B.Tech

2014 – 2018

Mechanical Engineering

Nagpur University

Engineering Foundations

Research-led.
Systems-minded.
Impact-driven.

UX researcher and design operations lead with 6+ years driving organisation-wide experience standards, research frameworks, and design quality across large-scale digital ecosystems.

At Jio Platforms, I lead UX audits across 10+ products, defined the One Jio Experience Framework (15 actionable standards), and embed research insights into product roadmaps.

Before Jio — Project Associate at DRDO and doctoral researcher at IIT Kanpur, publishing in international journals and deriving validated UX design patterns.

UX Research Design Ops Usability Testing Figma Design Systems Journey Mapping CX Auditing AR/VR Python Notion Miro

Currently

UX Research & Design Ops Lead

Jio Platforms Limited — India

🏆 Academic Award

Academic Excellence Award

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Awarded for outstanding research contributions during Master of Design (2019–21)

Co-Author

A Textbook of Mathematics

Published academic textbook

Published Research

Springer Vol. 1

UI Guidelines for Cultural Sensitivity in Indian Handicraft Interfaces

Design in the Era of Industry 4.0 · Springer

Springer Vol. 2

Deriving Design Patterns for Handheld Augmented Reality Games

Design in the Era of Industry 4.0 · Springer

Journal Vol. X

An Empirical Study on Human-Centric UX Design Principles and Design Thinking

European Academic Research

International Exposure

🇺🇸 New York & Manhattan, USA 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan 🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇹🇷 Ankara, Mardin, Erzurum, Cappadocia — Turkey 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇷🇴 Bucharest, Romania 🇲🇻 Malé, Maldives 🇹🇭 Pattaya, Thailand 🇮🇳 India

Presented research at 21+ international scientific conferences and congresses across Europe, Asia, and the Americas — covering innovation technology, social sciences, applied research, and design.

Currently open to

UX Research Consulting Design Strategy Speaking Engagements Research Collaborations Design System Advisory
Let's talk ↗

Let's connect

Let's make something
meaningful.

Open to conversations about UX research, design ops, experience strategy, or bold ideas.

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