Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• As a course mentor for the Post Graduate Program in User Experience Design at UT Austin, I play a crucial role in guiding and supporting students throughout their 6-month online journey in becoming proficient UX professionals. My responsibilities involve conducting live mentoring sessions on weekends, where I help students understand and apply UX principles and advanced topics such as Human-Computer Interaction, Agile Product Management, and the integration of cutting-edge technologies like IoT, AI, and blockchain in UX design.
• I offer career support, helping students navigate their career paths and enhance their employability in the competitive UI/UX job market. Additionally, I guide them through their hands-on capstone projects, ensuring they apply their learning effectively to build a robust digital design portfolio. Being a part of this program allows me to share my expertise and insights, fostering a nurturing learning environment that empowers students to achieve a globally recognized certificate from UT Austin and excel as in-demand UI/UX professionals.
• This role is with @GreatLearning. Read more: https://onlineexeced.mccombs.utexas.edu/pg-program-online-uiux-design-course

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Remote

• Volunteering to curate UX and Design articles that bring focus to less talked about avenues of UX Design work and highlight the opportunities & challenges, that we often zip past as we tend to consume fast paced content through today's information highways.

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Remote

• As a UX Design Mentor, I am responsible for:
• Providing guidance and support to my mentees: I use my expertise and experience in UX design to help mentees grow in their careers and achieve their goals.
• Sharing my knowledge and skills: I provide my mentees with practical, hands-on training in UX design and related topics.
• Encouraging professional development: I help my mentees identify their strengths and weaknesses and create a personalized plan for improvement.
• Building relationships: I establish a strong, supportive relationship with my mentees and provide them with a safe and trusting environment for learning and growth.
• Staying up-to-date on industry trends: I continue to learn and evolve my own skills and knowledge in UX design, and share my insights with my mentees.
• Encouraging community engagement: I help my mentees connect with other UX design professionals, attend industry events, and engage with the broader UX design community.
• Providing feedback: I provide my mentees with constructive feedback on their work, helping them to grow and improve.
• As a UX Design Mentor, I act as a valuable resource for my mentees and make a positive impact on the future of the UX design industry by helping the next generation of designers succeed.
• Link: https://topmate.io/abhinav_paitandy

Jun 2022 – Nov 2022 · 5 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Hybrid

• As a Volunteer UI/UX Designer, I collaborated with Allihoop to enhance their mobile application by providing expert design feedback and creating new design concepts. My role involved reviewing and assessing the upcoming app features and design iterations to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation. Specifically, I focused on:
• Overall Design Evaluation: Conducted a comprehensive review of the existing app design, offering insights on aesthetic and functional aspects to ensure a seamless user experience.
• Design Improvements: Suggested and implemented design enhancements to improve user interaction and visual appeal, aligning with the company's vision and user needs.
• Alternative Design Concepts: Proposed alternative design approaches for certain features, introducing fresh ideas that could better serve the app’s goals and user base.
• Feature Recommendations: Identified and recommended additional features that could enhance the app’s usability and value, based on user behavior and industry trends.
• In this role, I had access to the company’s Figma boards, where I created new design prototypes while ensuring that existing designs remained intact. My contributions were aligned with the confirmed design versions while exploring potential design shifts in upcoming features. This project was an initial engagement with the potential for long-term collaboration based on the success of the first few months.
• This role required strong communication skills, as I worked closely with the company's UX/UI designer and participated in catch-up meetings to ensure alignment on project goals and timelines.

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · On-site

• As a User Experience Designer at the Principal level at H&M, working on Enterprise Business tools and applications, I lead and champion the design process across the entire product lifecycle. I also serve as UX Lead for the Digital Checkout experience, shaping omni-channel checkout journeys across app, web, and store-connected experiences.
• My focus includes Omni-channel Experience for Checkout, covering scenarios such as Buy Online, Pick Up In Store (BOPIS), Buy Online, Ship to Store (BOSS), and the exploration of future checkout and payment experiences that bridge digital and physical touchpoints. I work to ensure checkout experiences are consistent, trustworthy, and scalable, balancing customer needs with business and operational constraints.
• My role involves conducting in-depth user research to understand behaviours and validate concepts with end users, translating insights into valuable products and services. I contribute to visionary work and idea generation, and bring concepts to life through multiple levels of prototyping—from paper and wireframes to interactive digital prototypes for mobile apps and web platforms.
• Collaboration is central to my work. I partner closely with Visual Designers, Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure a cohesive, user-centred design approach. I regularly facilitate creative workshops and collaborative sessions, fostering innovation and co-creation, while contributing to the development and refinement of user-centred design processes and best practices.
• My expertise in User Experience Design, Interaction Design, UX Testing, UI Design, and Design Thinking is complemented by a strong commitment to understanding users’ needs, motivations, and behaviours. I am an effective communicator with a passion for simplifying complexity, and I bring an engaged, open-minded, and ambitious mindset to my work.

Mar 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As a Senior UX Designer at PayPal, I play a pivotal role in shaping the user experience of PayPal's Wallet interface for both mobile and web applications, with a particular focus on payment solutions and integrations with payment providers and partners. My responsibilities include:
• Collaborating closely with design, engineering, design systems, and product management teams to ensure the seamless execution and delivery of PayPal's products and services, employing a customer-focused, iterative design process.
• Actively contributing to the planning and estimating of work, participating in the coordination of broader work streams and setting expectations.
• Producing high-quality deliverables and ensuring meticulous execution based on defined UX goals and priorities.
• Utilizing and expanding upon established UX techniques, templates, presentations, and assets to create comprehensive UX analyses, solutions, and materials.
• Engaging in the adaptation and enhancement of PayPal's UX tools, methodologies, and software, while also advocating for innovative solutions or optimizing existing ones.
• Creating opportunities to foster a collaborative environment across disciplines, enhancing the dynamic synergy among team members.
• Driving excellence in UX team delivery, amplifying our influence to achieve overarching UX objectives.
• Leading and inspiring team members in various experience and design initiatives, setting a standard for excellence and innovation.
• Mentoring fellow UX practitioners, sharing knowledge on best practices, processes, and methodologies to cultivate a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the team.
• In this role, my aim is to leverage my expertise and leadership to advance PayPal's mission in delivering exceptional payment experiences, ensuring that our Wallet interface remains intuitive, efficient, and user-centric.

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Remote

• As a mentor at Springboard, I engage in a multifaceted role that offers a personalized approach to supporting students. This involves grading student deliverables weekly and providing them with detailed feedback. I take pride in teaching and modeling concepts that students find challenging, as well as offering career advice about the industry. Depending on the unique needs of my mentees, I adapt my role—sometimes I'm a teacher, other times a motivator or advisor. Occasionally, I engage in high-level conversations to guide them throughout their course.
• Working with a diverse group of students, each with different skills and abilities, presents me with opportunities to either refresh my existing skills or elevate them to new heights. Being a mentor is immensely rewarding for me; it allows me to grow professionally while making a meaningful impact on my mentees' journeys.
• Read more: https://www.springboard.com/workshops/ui-ux-design-career-track/

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Remote

• Helping build "The Strategy Story".
• Read more on https://thestrategystory.com/

Oct 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• As a User Experience Lead at Nagarro, I'm responsible for crafting and delivering extraordinary experiences to our customers. With a well-articulated design philosophy and a leader in the creative process.
• Responsible to work with product teams to implement, revise & improve UX methodologies and personally take & deliver complex & critical projects. I also act as an advocate for the UX approach in other departments of the company and being a trainer and mentor for the team.

Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 · 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

• Responsibilities:
• Lead Pine Labs UX across products, collaborating with stakeholders around the company to understand the needs of their teams and establishing a team structure and end-to-end workflow designed to best serve those needs.
• Empower and mentor designers on your team, fostering a collaborative, productive, and positive environment within a growing team.
• Maintain and further build design team workflows that ensure that all designs delivered are in line with our brand language and extremely high-quality standards.
• Work with your team to optimize output and ensure that the large volume of deliverables requested of the design team on a daily basis are completed on time.
• Empower your team members to proactively lead iteration cycles with stakeholders and push designs forward according to the team’s vision and understanding of the business goals of each request.
• Be highly communicative and responsive both within your team and to stakeholders across the company while managing a large volume of ongoing projects.
• Hire, onboard, train, and mentor new team members.

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

• Course Mentor for UI, UX & Design Thinking Tracks for course at ImaginXP X Collegedekho, and partner channels like Simplilearn, Accenture, XCeed, EY, KMPG etc and University partners like VIT Vellore, Chitkara University - Chandigarh, DIT University - Dehradun, Sandip University - Nashik, Srinivas University - Mangalore, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ansal School of Design, World University of Design, Jagannath University and more

Aug 2015 – Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Understand the requirements and converts them into highly useable and appealing interfaces.
• Introduce a unified design philosophy for products.
• Develop an understanding of the end users of the website/application through secondary and primary research (user interviews, traffic data).
• Prepare a prototype of sites/features (ranging from paper-and-pencil concepts to wireframes or interactive prototypes) for internal review and brainstorming.
• Customer communication content creation: newsletters etc.
• Handle design of our complete marketing: digital, print.
• Designing and improvising the UI/UX of our products (mobile applications).
• Ideate and create product videos.

Dec 2014 – Aug 2015 · 8 mos · Gurgaon

• Responsible for developing a deep understanding of the target audience to define the tasks, navigation and UI artifacts that make the product usable and understandable.
• The deliverables include wire-frames of the concept followed by hi-fidelity visually apt PSDs.
• Bottom-line: Responsible for any-all design tasks within the organisation.
• Read more at: http://adaptivepath.org/ideas/just-what-is-a-ux-manager/

Jan 2014 – Jun 2014 · 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Wireframing, prototyping and UI/UX design concept page layouts for new microsite/website for CoCreate in the 3D Printing Industry. Photoshop/Illustrator iterative versioning and evolvement of the designs in an Agile team process working with Investor, Stake Holders, IT operations and back-end programmer.
• Leading Branding/Visual Identity and Communication Development for the brand, across Digital Media Channels.

Jun 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue.
• Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.
• Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.
• Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures, drafting privacy policies and structuring commercial transactions.

Oct 2012 – Jun 2013 · 8 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• At 9.9 as a web designer, I work on web media projects which include conceptualizing the design, understanding the audience, recreate the styling from the print magazines on the web.
• The major work includes creating dynamic websites, which captures the latest in web technology and presentation graphics, and coordinating and implementing the needs from the various teams concerned.

Jun 2011 – Sep 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• At 9.9 as a web designer, I work on web media projects which include conceptualizing the design, understanding the audience, recreate the styling from the print magazines on the web.
• The major work includes creating dynamic websites, which captures the latest in web technology and presentation graphics, and coordinating and implementing the needs from the various teams concerned.

Jun 2010 – Jul 2010 · 1 mo

• Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.

Jan 2008 – Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems.
• Developing customer relations, client management, project tracking and management